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  • Paper, Ink, and Achievement

    Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship

    by James E May, Leah Orr, J. T. Scanlan, Susan Spencer, Linda V. Troost, Manuel Schonhorn, Brett C. McInelly, David Venturo, Philip Smallwood ...
    During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, “Gabe” initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction

    'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'

    by Christopher D. Johnson, Paula R. Backscheider, Leslie A. Chilton, Robert A. Erikson, Susan K. Howard, Marta Kvande, James E. May, Melissa Mowry, Alexander Pettit, Charles E. Robinson, Mary Anne Schofield, Rivka Swenson, O M Brack Jr. ...
    New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which discuss ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Swiftly Sterneward

    Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New

    by Joseph G. Kronick, Taylor Corse, James E. May, Martha F. Bowden, Eric Rothstein, Frank Palmeri, Elizabeth Kraft, W G. Day, Madeleine Descargues-Grant, Donald R. Wehrs ...
    These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Editing Lives

    Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

    by Matthew Brack, Loren Rothschild, Thomas Kaminski, Peter Sabor, Gordon Turnbull, Jerry Beasley, Michael Bundock, Martine Watson Brownley, Leslie A. Chilton, Christopher D. Johnson, Walter H. Keithley, James E. May, Jennifer M. Santos, Stephen DeMaria Jr. ...
    Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Community and Solitude

    New Essays on Johnson’s Circle

    by John Radner, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, James E May, Marilyn Francus, Lance Wilcox, Elizabeth Lambert, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Christopher Catanese, James J. Caudle ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Carbolics

    A personal motoring disinfectant

    by James May ...
    Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)?In Carbolics the UK's favourite petrol head (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and more.Across 80 essays, James gives his quirky, entertaining take on cars, motorbikes, trucks - and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Jesus Gene

    by James Mays ...
    Man was created in God's image, but evolution has changed us. Our genetic code has been ripped, torn and reshaped through the generations. Now, these changes plague a small town with grizzly corpses and mysteries as old as man himself. This bizarre series of deaths exposes the secrets of man's creation and powers carefully guarded throughout the centuries that will ensure man's survival. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • James May's Magnificent Machines

    How men in sheds have changed our lives

    by James May, Phil Dolling ...
    Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations.Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more.But he also ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • James May's Man Lab

    The Book of Usefulness

    by James May ...
    For at least two decades now modern man has been on the brink of a crisis.Persuaded by both the post-feminist political landscape and his representation in the popular media to remodel himself as an endearingly hopeless halfwit, he now exists only as an object of pity.James and his happy band of brothers (plus a few women, but we try to edit them out) are engaged on a quest to lead maledom to a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes

    Gossip, Gumption, and the Glories of Small-Town Life

    by Anne Warner, Edna Ferber, Booth Tarkington, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, O. Henry, Benjamin Stevenson, Mary Stewart Cutting, Madeline Yale Wynne, Katharine M. Roof, Wilbur D. Nesbit0, May McHenry1, James Whitcomb Riley2, William James Lampton3, Thomas Bailey Aldrich4, Carl Sandburg5 ...
    Narrated by Meghan Kelly6, Emma Faye7, Alex Picard8, John Hopkinson9, Rebecca Stern0, Shannon Nicole Locke1, A.J. Schuck2 ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - A Kaleidoscope of American Storytellers

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    In the towns where the porch lights glow late, the screen doors creak often, and no secret stays secret for long, life unfolds with charm, chatter, and more than a touch of mischief.Porch Swings, Parlors & Pryin’ Eyes invites you into parlors both prim and peculiar, where romances are whispered behind teacups, rivalries simmer at choir practice, and widows form committees with suspicious speed. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bucket List Edition: The Greatest Classics in One Volume

    Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Dubliners, Les Misérables, Don Quixote, Art of War, Middlemarch, Swann's Way…

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Theodor Storm, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rabindranath Tagore, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walt Whitman, Niccolò Machiavelli, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Confucius, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Benito Pérez Galdós, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, William Dean Howells, Kalidasa, Kenneth Grahame, Marcel Proust, Washington Irving, Juan Valera, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Gaston Leroux, Charles Baudelaire, William Makepeace Thackeray, Voltaire, Kate Chopin, Apuleius, John Milton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Frederick Douglass, Laozi, John Keats, James Joyce, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Kahlil Gibran, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Princess Der Ling, L. Frank Baum, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, Miguel de Cervantes, Mary Shelley, Cao Xueqin, Emile Zola, Válmíki, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, P. B. Shelley, Elizabeth von Arnim, Herman Hesse, Dante, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Sun Tzu, Inazo Nitobé, George Weedon Grossmith, Willkie Collins, Lewis WallaceL., M. Montgomery ...
    The Bucket List Edition: The Greatest Classics in One Volume offers an unparalleled journey through the annals of literature, showcasing the brilliance and variety of storytelling across time and cultures. This anthology features an exceptional array of styles and narrative voices, from the philosophical dialogues of Plato and the poetic maximalism of Whitman to the evocative gothic tones of Poe ... Read more

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  • Thrill Ride Magazine - Best of 2024

    by M. L. Buchman, Leah R. Cutter, Blaze Ward, Kim May, James Patrick Focarile, Joslyn Chase, Michael Penncavage, Annie Reed, Teel James Glenn, DeAnna Knippling, E. Chris Ambrose, Jason A. Adams ...
    Series Book 9 - Thrill Ride - the Magazine
    Thirteen tales of excitement and adventure from Thrill Ride - the magazine: Year Two.Tales of gadgets and adventure, of amazing women standing together and human wolves who would rather stand alone. Conquer villains, cheer for thieves, battle espionage, and question everything you think you know about keeping alive.Hang onto your seat and take the plunge! ... Read more

    $9.99 USD