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  • Beautiful & Pointless

    A Guide to Modern Poetry

    by David Orr ...
    "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom PerrottaAward-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600–1851

    Edited by Richard Veit, David Orr ...
    The Delaware Valley is a distinct region situated within the Middle Atlantic states, encompassing portions of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. With its cultural epicenter of Philadelphia, its surrounding bays and ports within Maryland and Delaware, and its conglomerate population of European settlers, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans, the Delaware Valley was one of the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Battlefield

    The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea 1950-51

    by David Orr, David Truesdale ...
    Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue. A limited yet competent history had been produced in 1953 by the then Adjutant Captain Hugh Hamill, although this has been long out of print.A New Battlefield follows ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rifles Are There

    1st & 2nd Battalions The Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War

    by David Orr, David Truesdale, C.W.B Purdon ...
    Told by the men who lived it, this is a military history of two British Army battalions who landed at Normandy and fought in Europe during World War II.This is the long overdue history of the two Royal Ulster Rifles battalions during the Second World War. Although there was a healthy rivalry between the battalions, both reserved their fighting skills for the luckless enemy. At the outbreak of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democracy Unchained

    How to Rebuild Government for the People

    Edited by David Orr, Andrew Gumbel, Bakari Kitwana, William Becker ...
    A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracyThe presidential election of 2016 highlighted some long-standing flaws in American democracy and added a few new ones. Across the political spectrum, most Americans do not believe that democracy is delivering on its promises of fairness, justice, shared prosperity, or security in a changing world. The nation ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road Not Taken

    Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

    by David Orr ...
    A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • You, Too, Could Write a Poem

    by David Orr ...
    A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one placePoetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Robert Frost ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **Frost’s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken”A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition**For one hundred years, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise—a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost’s best ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dangerous Household Items

    by David Orr ...
    “David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception of his readers.” —Harold Bloom“A poetry critic and poet himself, David Orr’s work often explores a gray area of literary professionalism and process. A columnist for the New York Times Book Review. . . ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson

    Searching for Sustainability

    by Robert Jensen ...
    In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. But Jackson’s contribution to contemporary intellectual and political life goes well beyond plant breeding. Ever since he created one of the first university environmental ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Reflections on the Pandemic

    COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

    by Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Kimberly Camp, Kelly-Jane Cotter, David Dreyfus, Adrienne Eaton, Katherine Epstein, Paul Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman0, David Greenberg1, Jonathan Scott Holloway2, James W. Hughes3, Amy Jordan4, Amir Lighty5, Stephen Masaryk6, Yalidy Matos7, Susan Miller8, Yehoshua November9, Joyce Carol Oates0, Katherine Ognyanova1, Gregory Pardlo2, Steve Pikiell3, Benjamin Pukert4, Caridad Svich5, Mary E. O'Dowd6, Angelique Haugerud7, Leslieann Hobayan8, Stephanie Bonne9, Mark Doty0, Leah Falk1, Naomi Jackson2, Louis Masur3, Belinda McKeon4, David Orr5, Mackenzie Kean6, Revathi Machan7, Ms. Teresa Politano9, Dr. Vikki S. Katz, Ph.D.0, Professor Louis P. Masur1 ...
    Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Judges of Origin

    Part 1

    by David Orr ...
    The Judges of Origin continues the story of the Freaks of Origin. Fox is dying and in a foreign country. It’s a race against the clock to meet his goals. Will he survive? Meanwhile in Origin, people are becoming increasingly aware of powers. It doesn’t take the government long before taking an interest in those with powers, and with almost all of the original Freaks graduated, it’s up to a new set ... Read more

    $3.99 USD