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  • Wild, Weird, West

    Essays on Arid America

    by Gary Reger ...
    Series series Desert Humanities
    Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the “Great American Desert,” Americans have grappled with the radical differences between the humid East and the arid West. Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America collects a diverse array of essays that weave together an image of this indelible region.Author Gary Reger’s aim is to examine human interaction with desert ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Reading Aridity in Western American Literature

    by Cordelia Barrera, Ron Broglio, Jennifer Dawes, Paul Formisano, Quinn Grover, Amy T. Hamilton, Zachary R. Hernandez, Tom Lynch, Kyoko Matsunaga, Celina Osuna, Holly Jean Richard0, Jada Ach2, Gary Reger4 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Studies in Greek epigraphy and history in honor of Stefen V. Tracy

    Edited by Gary Reger, Francis X. Ryan, Timothy Francis Winters ...
    Series series Études
    This collection of studies in Greek epigraphy honors the work of Stephen V. Tracy. His meticulous research on the hands of Attic letter-cutters has transformed the way we think about Greek inscriptions in Attica and beyond. The twenty-nine scholars who have contributed to this volume offer papers ranging from publication of new inscriptions and studies of others long-known to wide-ranging ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

    Edited by Hugh Elton, Gary Reger ...
    Series series Études
    Regions and regionalism have been staples of historical analysis for the Greek world for a very long time. What is meant by a region, however, is not always obvious. The contributions in this volume seek to address the question of defining regions and working out the implications of regionalism along different dimensions of analysis for Asia Minor in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Looking at ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Survival, with an introduction by the author.01 When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has ... Read more

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  • The Spartan Regime

    Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

    by Paul Anthony Rahe ...
    Series series Yale Library of Military History
    "[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... Read more

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Delphi

    A History of the Center of the Ancient World

    by Michael Scott ...
    A comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world's center, from its founding to its modern rediscoveryThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"—the "center" or "navel"—of the ancient world for more than 1,000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings came from all over the Mediterranean and beyond to consult Delphi's oracular priestess; to set ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Bad Indians Book Club

    Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

    by Patty Krawec ...
    "A fascinating advanced seminar about how to think, read, think about reading, and think about Indigenous lives." --Booklist, starred reviewIn this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit?When a ... Read more

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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of ... Read more

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  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    by Stephanie Burt ...
    Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making ... Read more

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  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II

    Social Classes and Political Organisation

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a relationship usually sealed by a kiss between the two men. The vassal then took an oath of faithfulness. ... Read more

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