A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
Michael Ferber (Author)
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This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we all frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold), and gives hundreds of cross-references and quotations. The dictionary concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and classical authors to the twentieth century, taking in American and European literatures. For this new edition, Michael Ferber has included over twenty completely new entries (including bear, holly, sunflower and tower), and has added to many of the existing entries. Enlarged and enriched from the first edition, its informed style and rich references make this book an essential tool not only for literary and classical scholars, but for all students of literature.

• Rank: #365851 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-06-21
• Released on: 2014-04-21
• Format: Kindle eBook

Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age

Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age
Henry D. Spalding (Author)
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Jewish humor mirrors the minds and hearts of the Jewish people. It reflects their joys and sorrows, hopes and disappointments. Perhaps most significant, it demonstrates their willingness to poke fun at themselves, which has no doubt enabled Jews to endure centuries of hardship with head held high and a smile on their collective face. In the Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor, hailed as a landmark work when first published, Henry D. Spalding presents delightful anecdotes, quips, jokes, and yarns featuring the colorful folk who have added spice and spirit to Jewish life from biblical to modern times. Some of the selections are pungent, many are scornful of deceit and pretense, others are alive with brotherhood. Most are just downright hilarious. In thirty-nine chapters, Spalding allows forty centuries of Jewish life to speak through characters we have all grown to love. Here, you'll find the itinerant shnorrer who arrives in a small Lithuanian town late one Friday afternoon with no place to stay; the Yiddishe papa whose task it is to instruct little Mortie in the ways of the birds and bees; the congregant whose life's goal, it seems, is to make his rabbi miserable; the hypochondriac who complains of ailments as yet undiscovered. The author (re)introduces us to the shlemiels and shlimazls, rebbes and rebbetzins, mamas and papas, doctors and patients, marriage brokers and divorce lawyers, yeshiva students and sisterhood presidents whose peculiar antics never fail to entertain. In the preface to this classic work, Henry Spalding writes that the surest way to destroy humor is to analyze it. So no more analyzing...Now it's time to read a little something!

• Rank: #575139 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 6.46" w x 9.32" l, 1.76 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day

The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day
Terry Pratchett (Author), Ian Stewart (Author), Jack Cohen (Author)
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A brilliant new Discworld story from Terry Pratchett combined with cutting-edge science and philosophy from Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. This time the trio take on THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS -- God, the Universe and, frankly, Everything Else. 
     The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.
     Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job -- and indeed the truth of words -- very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours -- Roundworld -- is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing.
     The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by Omnians, who say that the Wizards' god-like actions make a mockery of their noble religion.
     As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a zombie and a priest) gird their loins to do battle -- and when the Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on -- Marjorie Daw finds herself thrown across the multiverse and right in the middle of the whole explosive affair.
    As God, the Universe and, frankly, Everything Else is investigated by the trio, you can expect world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity in the Escher-verse, evolutionary design, eternal inflation, dark matter, disbelief systems -- and an in-depth study of how to invent a better mousetrap.

• Rank: #76591 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-22
• Released on: 2014-04-22
• Format: International Edition
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x 4.96" w x .0" l, .81 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
by David Bentley Hart (Author), Ralph Morocco (Narrator)
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In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists¿s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.

Hart outlines how Christianity transformed the ancient world in ways we may have forgotten: bringing liberation from fatalism, conferring great dignity on human beings, subverting the cruelest aspects of pagan society, and elevating charity above all virtues. He then argues that what we term the "Age of Reason" was in fact the beginning of the eclipse of reason¿s authority as a cultural value. Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values.

• Rank: #42255 in Audible
• Published on: 2014-04-21
• Format: Unabridged
• Running time: 42600 seconds

Children's Book-a-Day Almanac

Children's Book-a-Day Almanac
Anita Silvey (Author)
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Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year!

• Rank: #488621 in Books
• Published on: 2012-10-30
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .99" h x 7.42" w x 9.26" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (The Renaissance Society of America)

Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (The Renaissance Society of America)
Philip Ford (Editor), Jan Bloemendal (Editor), Charles Fantazzi (Editor)

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• Rank: #2711091 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.30" h x 7.50" w x 10.90" l, 7.05 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1245 pages

Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores

Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores
Hans Weyandt (Editor), Ann Patchett (Introduction)
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AThere is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart. So consider this little book you now hold in your hands a sort of catalog of matchmakers.”AAnn Patchett

"If I were still a bookseller, I'd be thrilled to share this wealth with my customers. As a reader, I'm deeply intrigued by the range of selections. . . . Do yourself a favor. Add Micawber's Top 50 project to your must-read list."ARobert Gray, Shelf Awareness

This book offers lists of favorites that have flown under the radar, but off of bookstore shelves. First published on Hans Weyandt's blog for Micawber's Books, each list includes a bookseller's top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. All proceeds will go to American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE).

Contributing bookstores include Book Passage, Tattered Cover Book Store, Three Lives & Company, Boswell Books, City Lights Bookstore, BookCourt, Harvard Book Store, Carmichael's Bookstore, Prairie Lights, The King's English Bookshop, Square Books, Magers & Quinn, Micawber's Books, Unabridged Bookstore, Regulator Bookshop, Subterranean Books, Faulkner House Books, Skylight Books, Maria's Bookshop, Inkwood Books, Rakestraw Books, RiverRun Bookstore, Sherman's Books and Stationary, Iowa Book, and Fireside Books.

Hans Weyandt is a co-owner at Micawber's Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of five novels, including Run, Bel Canto, and most recently, State of Wonder. She owns Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, Tennnessee.

• Rank: #155020 in Books
• Brand: PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP
• Published on: 2012-08-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 4.40" w x 6.40" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages