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  • Extending the Life of Reservoirs

    Sustainable Sediment Management for Dams and Run-of-River Hydropower

    by George W. Annandale, Gregory L. Morris, Pravin Karki ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Energy and Mining
    Economic development relies critically on infrastructure development. Yet, without careful planning, the services provided by hydropower facilities and dams are at risk. Ensuring the long-term resilience of these critical infrastructure facilities requires early and consistent attention to the processes of reservoir sedimentation, which reduce the storage capacity of reservoirs and damages ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talking Up a Storm

    Voices of the New West

    by Gregory L. Morris ...
    In interviews with fifteen contemporary writers of the American West, Gregory L. Morris demonstrates what these widely divergent talents have in common: they all redefine what it is to be a western writer. No longer enthralled (though sometimes inspired) by the literary traditions of openness, place, and rugged individualism, each of the writers has remained true to the demand for clarity, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Raven

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    The RavenEdgar Allan POE (1809 - 1849)"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is ... Read more

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  • First We Read, Then We Write

    Emerson on the Creative Process

    by Robert D. Richardson ...
    Series series Muse Books
    Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Letters to My Father

    by William Styron ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    “I’ve finally pretty much decided what to write next—a novel based on Nat Turner’s rebellion,” twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated ... Read more

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  • The Raven

    Poems and Essays on Poetry

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    An indispensable collection of the work of one of the 19th century's most compelling and original poets, this comprehensive edition contains all of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and three most important essays. Reissued to coincide with the release of a major Hollywood film of the same title, it exposes Poe's diversity and genius, from breathtakingly seductive beauty of "To Helen" to the claustrophobic ... Read more

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  • Gender and Lynching

    The Politics of Memory

    by Evelyn M. Simien ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

    by Eric Cheyfitz ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures in the second half of the twentieth century, with ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Music and Identity in Twentieth-Century Literature from Our America

    Noteworthy Protagonists

    by Marco Katz Montiel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Teaching African American Women’s Writing

    Edited by G. Wisker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • American Georgics

    Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

    by Timothy Sweet ...
    In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory

    by Brian R. Pellar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,” the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical ... Read more

    $98.99 USD