[2020]
First edition.
"Escape to worlds full of adventure and magic in the first-ever Terry Brooks short story collection, featuring both new and fan-favorite stories
Regular print
9780525619963
Regular print
Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020
Short stories. Selections
The fey of Cloudmoor -- Aftermath -- Imaginary friends -- The weapons master's choice -- An unfortunate influx of Fillipians -- Allanon's quest -- Indomitable -- Don't tell dad -- The black irix -- Last ride -- Warrior.
Brooks, Terry, author.
Terry Brooks.
2020
Small magic : short fiction 1977-2020
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
9780838633519
Book
Narrative magic in the fiction of Isabel Allende
Hart, Patricia, 1954-
Patricia Hart.
1989
Narrative magic in the fiction of Isabel Allende
℗2015.
Unabridged.
Strand chronicles the intersection of brothers Kurt and Bernard Vonnegut at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold
CD
HighBridge ; [Distributed by] Recorded Books,
9781622319169
CD
The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
Strand, Ginger Gail.
Runnette, Sean
HighBridge Audio (Firm)
Recorded Books, LLC.
Ginger Strand.
2015
The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
2015.
First edition.
"Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a
Book
9780374117016
Book
The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
Strand, Ginger Gail, author.
Ginger Strand.
2015
The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
Subterranean Press,
9781596061132
Book
Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling
The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm -- Spider Rose -- Cicada queen -- Sunken gardens -- Twenty evocations -- Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei -- Dinner in Audoghast -- The compassionate, the digital -- Flowers of Edo -- The little magic shop -- Our neural Chernobyl -- We see things differently -- Dori Bangs -- The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin -- Are you for 86? -- The littlest jackal -- The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy -- Bicycle repairman -- Taklamakan -- Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles -- Maneki Neko -- In paradise -- The blemmye's strategem -- Kiosk.
Sterling, Bruce.
Strahan, Jonathan.
Fowler, Karen Joy.
by Karen Joy Fowler -- by Bruce Sterling --
[edited by Jonathan Strahan ; introduction by Karen Joy Fowler ; foreword by Bruce Sterling].
2007
Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling
Houghton Mifflin,
9780618586448
9780618586455
Book
The best American spiritual writing 2006
Best American series,
fitting desire / Renewing husbandry / big tent / On making the Martyrdom of Saint Polycarp: writing the true icon / After strange gods / Pipistrelle / Eddy / manna for all seasons / cellular church / Moral fiction / tragic fate of John Ruskin / Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius / This soul has six wings / glue is gone / Music's missing magic / Waking / Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles / Into the wonder / kosher conversion / Our near-death experience / After 9/11 / secret of the self / Our American Babylon / Are you there, God? / Seven penitential psalms / lost Buddhas of Bamiyan / Ishi / Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought / Just power / Angel bones / church's way of speaking / Marina / East Boston, 1996 / 20, 40, 60, 80,
Zaleski, Philip.
Rick Bass -- Wendell Berry -- Peter J. Boyer -- Scott Cairns -- Michael Chabon -- Mark Doty -- Brian Doyle -- Anthony Esolen -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Mary Gordon -- Rochelle Gurstein -- Sam Hamill -- Jessie Harriman -- Edward Hoagland -- Miles Hoffman -- Linda Hogan -- Charlotte Innes -- Alan Jacobs -- Corby Kummer -- Thomas Lynch -- Charles Martin -- Wilfred M. McClay -- Richard John Neuhaus -- Katherine Paterson -- V. Penelope Pelizzon -- Matthew Power -- Louis Simpson -- George Steiner -- Helen Tworkov -- John Updike -- Robert Louis Wilken -- C.K. Williams -- Franz Wright -- Genie Zeiger.
edited by Philip Zaleski ; introduction by Peter F. Gomes.
2006
The best American spiritual writing 2006
2024.
First U.S. edition.
A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-B
Book
9781250292117
Book
A view from the stars
Time enough for love / Whale song / A journey in search of home : on the inclusion of "The Wandering Earth" in the 30th anniversary of Science fiction world / The messenger / Thirty years of making magic out of ordinariness : celebrating Science fiction world's thirtieth anniversary / Butterfly / One and one hundred thousand Earths / On finishing Death's end, the last book in the Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy / The battle between sci-fi and fantasy ; The "Church" of sci fi : on depictions of the universe in science fiction / End of the microcosmos / Poetic science fiction / Civilization's expansion in reverse / Destiny / The dark forest theory / The world in fifty years / Heard it in the morning / On ball lightning, an interview with Liu Cixin ; We're sci-fi fans
Liu, Cixin, author, interviewee.
Dudak, Andy, translator.
Field, Jesse, translator.
Hanlon, Elizabeth, translator.
Jin, Emily Xueni, translator.
Lanphier, Adam, translator.
Lu, S. Qiouyi, translator.
Zhang, Henry, translator.
translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by S. Qiouyi Lu -- translated by Henry Zhang -- translated by Andy Dudak -- translated by Henry Zhag -- translated by Elizabeth Hanlon -- translated by Jesse Field -- translated by Henry Zhang -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by S. Qiouyi Lu -- translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by Andy Dudak -- translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- translated by Adam Lanphier -- translated by Jesse Field -- translated by Adam Lanphier.
Cixin Liu ; translated by Andy Dudak, Jesse Field, Elizabeth Hanlon, Emily Xueni Jin, Adam Lanphier, S. Qiouyi Lu, Henry Zhang.
2024
A view from the stars
H. Holt and Company
Book
Cavalcade of the English novel from Elizabeth to George VI ...
Fiction in Shakespeare's time -- The seventeenth century -- Defoe and his contemporaries -- Psychological realism begins : Samuel Richardson -- Fielding and the prose epic -- Smollett and the novel of humors -- The triumph of sensibility : Laurence Sterne -- Sentimentalists and revolutionaries -- The renascence of wonder -- The romance of the tea-table -- The heights -- From Scott to Dickens -- White magic -- The disciples of Dickens -- Counter-blast : W.M. Thackeray -- The novelist as novelist : Anthony Trollope -- Fire over Yorkshire -- The "new" novel : George Eliot -- The poetic comedy of George Meredith -- Hardy and the cosmic drama -- Romance resurgent : Robert Louis Stevenson -- Victorian sunset -- Towards a new century -- Values and Joseph Conrad -- Novelist of being : Arnold Bennett -- H.G. Wells, "realist of the fantastic" -- Pity, irony, and John Galsworthy -- D.H. Lawrence, pilgrim of the rainbow -- "Stream-of-consciousness" -- News of Tishnar : Walter De La Mare.
Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-2004.
1943
Cavalcade of the English novel from Elizabeth to George VI ...
Cambridge University Press,
9780521482530
9780521483926
Book
The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel
Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature.
German novel in the long twentieth century / Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present / novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire / Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers: Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn / Franz Kafka: the radical modernist / Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's magic mountain / Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil / Images of the city / Women writers in the 'golden' twenties / first world war and its aftermath in the German novel / German novel during the third Reich / History, memory, fiction after the second world war / Aesthetics and resistance: BoÌll, Grass, Weiss / kleiner Mann and modern times: from Fallada to Walser / 'critical' novel in the GDR / Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke / Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s / postmodern German novel
Bartram, Graham, 1946-
Graham Bartram -- Lynn Abrams -- Alan Bance -- Ritchie Robertson -- Stanley Corngold -- Russell A. Berman -- Graham Bartram, Philip Payne -- Burton Pike -- Elizabeth Boa -- Michael Minden -- Ronald Speirs -- Dagmar Barnouw -- J.H. Reid -- Anthony Waine -- Patricia Herminghouse -- Michael Butler -- Allyson Fiddler -- Paul Michael LuÌtzeler.
edited by Graham Bartram.
2004
The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel
2022.
"This is no ordinary atlas. This is a guide to the legendary lands once sought by explorers, from the sunken kingdom of Atlantis to the treasure-
Book
9780711262829
Book
An atlas of lost kingdoms : discover mythical lands, lost cities and vanished islands
Atlantis: legendary sunken city -- Camelot: many-towered castle of King Arthur -- Hy-Brasil: phantom island off the Irish coast -- The lost city of Ys: legendary kingdom swallowed by the sea -- Yggdrasil: the nine worlds of Northlands -- Cockaigne: a dreamland of plenty and luxury -- The Fortunate Isles: paradise islands from Greek mythology -- Buyan: vanishing island from Slavic folklore -- Scholomance: underground school of black magic -- Zerzura: the oasis of little birds -- Sheba: kingdom of an ancient queen -- The lost city of Kalahari: fact or fiction? -- Carthage: once-great rival of Rome -- Ile-Ife: sacred homeland of the Yoruba people -- Troy: city of legend -- Themiscyra: capiatl of the Amazons -- The hanging gardens of Babylon: lost wonder of the world -- Iram of the Pillars: the Atlantis of the sands -- Dwarka: legendary home of a Hindu god -- Shi Cheng: real-life sunken city -- Xanadu: capital of an empire -- Ryūgū-jō: underwater palace from Japanese legend -- The Isle of Demons: phantom island off the coast of Canada -- The Hopi underworld: where it all began -- The seven cities of gold: a dream of impossible wealth -- Aztlan: legendary homeland of the Aztec people -- El Dorado: the fabled city of gold -- Ciudad Blanca: the lost city of the monkey god -- Port Royal: sunken pirate haven -- Baralku: island of the dead -- Hawaiki: homeland of the Māori people -- Agartha: imagined kingdom inside the Earth.
Hawkins, Emily, author.
Baldo, Lauren, illustrator.
written by Emily Hawkins ; illustrated by Lauren Baldo.
2022
An atlas of lost kingdoms : discover mythical lands, lost cities and vanished islands
©2012.
Alexie's work is the imaginative expression of his eventful life. This volume, therefore, includes an insightful biographical sketch of Alexie wh
Book
Salem Press,
9781587658235
Book
Sherman Alexie
Critical insights
Critical insights.
On Sherman Alexie: American man of letters / Navigating the river of the world: collective trauma in The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / "Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?": community and history in Sherman Alexie's writing / Articulations of difference: minority existence in white America in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Postmodern magic, traditional rage: the critical reception of Sherman Alexie's work / Half child/half adult: Sherman Alexie's hybrid young adult fiction / The rhetorical, performative poetics of Sherman Alexie: critical reflections on affect, memory, and subjectivity / A rez kid gone urban: Sherman Alexie's recent short fiction / Dialectic to dialogic: negotiating bicultural heritage in Sherman Alexie's sonnets / Sherman Alexie's indigenous blues / The exaggeration of despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / Reservation home movies: Sherman Alexie's poetry / A new road and a dead end in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / "The res has missed you": the fragmented reservation of the mind in The business of fancydancing / A bridge of difference: Sherman Alexie and the politics of mourning / A world of story-smoke: a conversation with Sherman Alexie / Indian killer / Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / The trans/historicity of trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Building cultural knowledge in the contemporary native novel / Sherman Alexie: interview
Lewis, Leon.
Leon Lewis -- Biography of Sherman Alexie / Georgie L. Donovan -- The Paris review perspective / Barry Harbaugh for the Paris review -- Tammy Wahpeconiah -- Michael Wilson -- Constance Bracewell -- Tammy Wahpeconiah -- Mark Vogel -- Cindy M. Spurlock -- Richard Sax -- Carrie Etter -- Douglas Ford -- Gloria Bird -- Jennifer Gillan -- Scott Andrews -- Meredith K. James -- Laura Arnold Leibman -- Åse Nygren -- Daniel Grassian -- Lisa Tatonetti -- Nancy Van Styvendale -- Sean Kicummah Teuton -- Margo Rabb.
editor, Leon Lewis.
2012
Sherman Alexie
Prometheus Books,
9781591020202
Book
Science literacy for the twenty-first century
Introduction / Opening the doors of science / Women and physics, physics and women : a puzzlement / Status of the "two cultures" / Igniting an educational revolution : MIT OpenCourseWare / On creating a "scientific temper" / Rethinking the physical sciences in school programs / On the oneness of nature
Scientific inquiry and nature of science as a meaningful context for learning in science / In praise of audacity : tackling the big problems / Magic of science / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : musings on the teaching and learning of science / University as a partner in transforming science education / Impossible takes a little longer / Selling physics to unwilling buyers : physics fact and fiction
Two modest proposals concerning scientific literacy / The ethical responsibilities of scientists / Scientific responsibility / Science literacy and society's choices / Some current concerns : missile defense, the future of nuclear power, and the hazard of loose nuclear-weapon material in Russia / The DARI : a unit of measure suitable to the practical appreciation of the effect of low doses of ioniziong radiation
Building public understanding of science : a matter of trust / Leon Max Lederman : a brief biography / Partnerships between scientists and educators : a vital ingredient in science education reform / The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy : a commitment to transformation / The Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science / From laboratory gardens to society jungles with Leon Lederman
Leon Lederman's proselytizing for science / Leon, Fermilab, and other things / Leon Lederman : a true friend of science and education
Gould, Stephen Jay.
Marshall, Stephanie.
Scheppler, Judith A.
Palmisano, Michael J., 1947-
Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler, Michael J. Palmisano -- Margaret J. Geller -- Sheila Tobias -- Melvin Schwartz -- Charles M. Vest -- Bruce Alberts -- Rodger W. Bybee -- Edward "Rocky" Kolb.
Norman G. Lederman -- Shirley M. Malcom -- Michael S. Turner -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Elnora Harcombe, Neal Lane -- Dudley Herschbach -- Lawrence M. Krauss.
James Trefil -- Howard Gardner -- Walter E. Massey -- Mae C. Jemison -- Richard L. Garwin, Georges Charpak -- Georges Charpak, Richard L. Garwin.
Judith A. Ramaley -- Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler, Michael J. Palmisano -- Marjorie G. Bardeen -- Stephanie Pace Marshall -- Lourdes Monteagudo -- Georges Charpak.
George A. "Jay" Keyworth II -- Alvin Tollestrup -- Alvin W. Trivelpiece.
contributors include Stephen Jay Gould ... [and others]. ; edited by Stephanie Pace Marshall, Judith A. Scheppler & Michael J. Palmisano ; epilogue by Leon Lederman.
2003
Science literacy for the twenty-first century