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Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Updated paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven education policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public intellectuals--as well as all people concerned about the future of democracy--to speak out and defend the university as a site of critical learning and democratic promise. In this updated...
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 319 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand what's driving the crisis and how to prevent conditions from getting worse. In this insightful book, Henry A. Giroux offers a far-reaching critique of the economic...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 634 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
More than 50 stories on the Jewish experience this century. They chronicle the lives of Old Country ancestors, refugees, immigrants or just simple wanderers like the anti- hero Fidelman. The settings are on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence...
11) One art: letters
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
xxv, 668 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction." "In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her...
13) Puss in boots
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
14) Hey, Al
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1986.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem? Their room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless struggle. Al and Eddie are practically at each others throats when a large and mysterious bird offers them a new life in paradise. After some debate, they decide to accept. Transported to a gorgeous island in the sky,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight...
17) The haw lantern
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
51, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it all." The Haw Lantern won England's Whitbread Prize in...
18) Félix and Meira
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hadas Yaron returns in Maxime Giroux's, story, an unconventional love story between two people living vastly different lives Meira, a young Hasidic wife and mother unhappy in her life, and Felix, an man lost in mourning the recent death of his father, unexpectedly meet in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two find comfort and freedom in one another.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book Description: The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book award. It has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's life yet to be written, the result of nearly twenty years of work" (The Atlantic).
20) Landscaping
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons,Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 416 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighborhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment...
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