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In this brilliant, impassioned and controversial book, New Yorker critic Joan Acocella argues that twentieth-century literary critics from the Left and Right have misused Willa Cather and her works for their own political ends, and, in doing so, have either ignored or obscured her true literary achievement. In an acute and often very funny critique of the critics, Acocella untangles Cather's reputation from decades of politically motivated mis...

Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how politics shape economic outcomes. To date, however, this growing literat...

If youa re determined to create and maintain a beautiful bermuda--grass turf, then let this comprehensive reference be your guide.

In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments-caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience.A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter." In "The Intelligence of Wild ...

Sister Briege's encounter with the healing power of God. It shares her insights about the faith for healing the power of the Eucharist in healing. It points the way to closer fellowship with Christ, greater knowledge of his love and deeper faith.

This book is a memoir that uniquely blends politics and astrology that covers, from both perspectives, political figures such as President George Bush, former Presidents Ronald Reagan and William Clinton, Congressman Gary Condit, and former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, Jr.

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies-including the media's dichotomo...

Ein Bilderbuch für freche Kinder ab 4 Jahren von Michael Ende. Wer brav ist, bleibt sitzen! In der Rüpelschule ist die Welt auf den Kopf gestellt. Für Schreien und Toben, Schmatzen, Schmutzig- und Unordentlichsein gibt es hier gute Noten. Der Lehrer ist erst zufrieden, wenn ihm seine Schüler so richtig schön auf der Nase herumtanzen. Hier lernt man ein richtiger Rüpel zu werden. Bravsein, Pünktlich und Fleißigsein - dafür gibt's den Schulverweis!

In der Sierra de Gredos erstreckt sich von Ost nach West über das Zentralmassiv mit dem Pico de Almanzor eine bis in den Frühling hinein verschneite, fast zweihundert Gratkilometer lange Gipfelflur. Dorthin macht sich die Bankfrau, von deren Abenteuern dieser Roman handelt, aus einer nordwestlichen Flußhafenstadt auf den Weg. Sie will diese Bergkette durchqueren und dort in dem Manchadorf den Autor treffen, mit dem sie einen klassischen Liefer...