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Blues For A Black Cat And Other Stories

de Boris Vian

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 [Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when Mood Indigo is played.-Boston Globe
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The Limits Of Air Power - The American Bombing Of North Vietnam

de Mark Clodfelter

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 Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how US Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam.
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Mad Love

de André Breton

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 Offers an adulation of love as both mystery and revelation. This book is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust."
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Fable For Another Time

de Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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 Offers a different perspective on the war and the postwar political purges in France. This book tells the tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, and follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings.
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The Missouri

de Stanley Vestal

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 The Missouri was the river of Lewis and Clark, of Manuel Lisa, General Ashley, and other organizers of the fur trade; and of such noted travelers as George Catlin, Henry R Schoolcraft, and Prince Maximilian. Taking Big Muddy as the central character, this work is useful to those interested in the American West.
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Eagle'S Plume - The Struggle To Preserve The Life And Haunts Of America'S Bald Eagle

de Bruce E. Beans

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 Counts the compelling, centuries-old story of the bald eagle's place in American culture and landscape and its struggle for survival. This title chronicles the heroic efforts of federal and environmental groups and local communities who rallied to save the great national bird that was robbed of its habitat and poisoned with pesticides.
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Aminadab

de Maurice Blanchot

63,09€

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 Thomas, upon seeing a women gesture to him from a window of a large boarding house, enters the building and slowly becomes embroiled in its inscrutable workings. Although Thomas is constantly reassured that he can leave the building, he seems to be separated forever from the world he has left behind.
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Future Harvest - Pesticide-Free Farming

de Jim Bender

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The Cubist Poets In Paris - An Anthology

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 The painters illustrated the poets' poems and painted their portraits; the poets wrote the painters' praise and defended them in journalistic wars. This work includes groups of poems and each poem is presented in French and in English translation.
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Communicating Vessels

de André Breton

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 What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. This English translation makes available 'the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based.
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The Ear Of The Other - Otobiography, Transference, Translation

de Jacques Derrida

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 "Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."--South Atlantic Review
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Free Rein

de André Breton

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 Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s, the author addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime (which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936). He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to "revolutionary" aims exemplified by socialist realism.
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Homesteading The Plains - Toward A New History

de Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo e Richard Edwards

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 Offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of Americaâ€™s national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment.
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Flock Together - A Love Affair With Extinct Birds

de B.J. Hollars

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 Part memoir, part research-based journalism, Flock Together is a personal exploration of the decline of avian species throughout the world, its ramifications, and what it might mean for humanity.
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Exceptional Mountains - A Cultural History Of The Pacific Northwest Volcanoes

de O. Alan Weltzien

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 Offers a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship betweenthese volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest.
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The Right To Privacy

de Adam Carlyle Breckenridge

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Toward A New Sensibility - Essays Of O. K. Bouwsma

de O. K. Bouwsma

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Philosophical Essays

de O. K. Bouwsma

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Dark Thoreau

de Richard Bridgman

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Jerusalem Delivered - Gerusalemme Liberata

de Torquato Tasso

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 Torquato Tasso turned to the First Crusade both as a subject that would test his poetic ambition and as a reflection on the quandaries of his own time. He sought to creat a masterpiece that would deserve comparison with the great epics of the past.
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History Of My Life

de Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt Casanova

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 This double volume is the fifth part of Venetian Casanova's memoirs, translated from the French between 1966 and 1971. His rich and varied life is recalled in an unabridged work which also includes notes on the social, biographical and geographical background of its genesis.
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Creativity And Madness - New Findings And Old Stereotypes

de Albert Rothenberg

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 Investigates how two opposite conditions - outstanding creativity and psychosis - could co-exist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that such creativity is beyond the usual modes of logical thought, and that rather than aiding creative work, such psychosis hinders it.
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You'Ve Always Been Wrong

de René Daumal

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 A fitful interloper among the Surrealists, the author rejected all forms of dogmatic thought, whether religious, philosophical, aesthetic, or political. He combined his skepticism about Western metaphysics with mystic's effort to maintain intense wakefulness to the present moment and to the irreducible particularity of all objects and experience.
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Communicating Vessels

de André Breton

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 Originally published in 1932 in France, "Les Vases communicants" is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This translation of "Les Vases communicants" presents the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism is based. It lays out the problems of everyday experience.
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