Doctor Coyote : a Native American Aesop's fables

Aesop's fables

Aesop's fables.

Paternalism incorporated : fables of American fatherhood, 1865-1940

Theoretical fables : the pedagogical dream in contemporary Latin American fiction

Penn studies in contemporary American fiction

Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.

The wild hunters; the wolves, the bears, and the big cats.

Wolf's point of view -- Fight at Toklat River -- Law of the barrens -- Wild dog -- fables and facts -- War with the wolves -- Wolves that hunt men -- Trail to extinction -- Great white bear -- Lord of the mountains -- Number-one trophies -- Bears that hunt men -- Exterminators -- Big spotted cat -- Turning point -- To the death -- American lions and tigers -- Cats that hunt men -- Question of survival -- Laws of nature.

The Oxford book of Scottish short stories

The battle of the birds -- The wee bannock -- Death in a nut -- The Cameronian preacher's tale / The two drovers / The Howdie : an autobiography / Baubie Huie's bastard geet / The cunning speech of Drumtochty / A lodging for the night ; Thrawn Janet ; from Fables / Un Infeliz / Miss Armstrong's circumstances / T̀he heather lintie / A literary club / The debatable land / The loathly opposite / Silk both sides / The tax-gatherer / Dance of the apprentices / Country-born / Smeddum / The Donegals / I'm leaving you / The last sister / A far cry from Bowmore / The life and death of George Wilson / The gowk / Bang-Bang you're dead / A map of the world / Andrina / An American sky / Prometheus / Performance / The one-legged men / Violets and strawberries in the snow / Home for a couple of days / Its colours they are fine / An apple from a tree / Merlewood / Street of the three terraces / Blood / Doubled up with pain / Night geometry and the Garscadden trains

The consumer society

Frontier issues in economic thought ;

Authors of original articles -- Foreword / Acknowledgments -- Volume introduction / Scope and definition -- Overview essay / Asking how much is enough / Consumption, well-being, and virtue / The original affluent society / The limits to satisfaction : examination / Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all? / The expansion of consumption / New analytic bases for an economic critique of Consumer Society / Consumption : the new wave of research in the humanities and social sciences / Consumption in the affluent society -- Overview essay / Traumas of time and money in prosperity and depression/ The insidious cycle of work and spend / Work, consumption, and the joyless consumer / The study of consumption, object domains, ideology, and interests ; Toward a theory of consumption / Notes on the relationship between production and consumption / The political economy of opulence / The increasing scarcity of time / Social limits to growth : the commercialization bias / Changing consumption patterns : the transformation of Orange County since World War II

Family, gender, and socialization -- Overview essay / The domestic production of monies / Sitcoms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Gender as commodity / Gender and consumption : transcending the feminine? / Meanings of material possessions as reflections of identity / Friendship or commodities? The road not taken : friendship, consumerism, and happiness / Playing with culture : toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing / The history of consumer society -- Overview essay / The history of consumption : a literature review and consumer guide / Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from 1550 to 1800 / Pictorial prints and the growth of consumerism : class and cosmopolitanism in early modern culture / The Quaker ethic : plain living and high thinking in American culture / The consumer revolution of eighteenth-century England / Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution / Learning to consume : early department stores and the shaping of the modern consumer culture (1800-1914) / From salvation to self-realization : advertising and the therapeutic roots of consumer culture / The consumer's comfort and dream

Foundations of economic theories of consumption -- Overview essay / materialism and modern political philosophy / The history of economics from a humanistic perspective / Capital, labor, and the commodity form / Institutional economics and consumption / Keynes' economic thought and the theory of consumer behavior / A reformulation of the theory of saving / Bandwagon, snob, and Veblen effects in the theory of consumers' demand / The standard of living and the capacity to save / The imperatives of consumer demand and the dependence effect / Critiques and alternatives in economic theory -- Overview essay / Alternative approaches to consumer behavior / The separative self : androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Economics, psychology, and consumer behavior / The psychology and economics of motivation / The neglected realm of social scarcity / The demand for unobservable and other nonpositional goods / Change and innovation in the technology of consumption / Procrastination and obedience

Perpetuating consumer culture : media, advertising, and wants creation -- Overview essay / The distorted mirror : reflections on the unintended consequences of advertising / Modern consumerism and imaginative hedonism / Social comparison, advertising, and consumer discontent / Limits to satisfaction : diagnosis / Goods as satisfiers / Introduction to fables of abundance / Advertising / The emergence of American television : the formative years ; Toward a new video order : the 1980s / Television and the structuring of experience / Theories of consumption in media studies / Household debt problems : toward a micro-macro linkage / Consumption and the environment -- Overview essay / The allocation and distribution of resources / Market and nonmarket determinants of private consumption and their impacts on the environment / Consumption : value added, physical transformation, and welfare / Creating the affluent society / Natural resource consumption / The environmental costs of consumption / Creating a sustainable materials economy

Globalization and consumer culture -- Overview essay / Development and the elimination of poverty / Third World consumer culture / Positional goods, conspicuous consumption, and the international demonstration effect reconsidered / Advertising in nonaffluent societies : Galbraith revisited / The culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World ; The culture-ideology of consumerism in urban China / Transnational advertising : some considerations of the impact on peripheral societies / Transnational corporations and Third World consumption : implications for competitive strategies / Gross national consumption in the United States : implications for Third World development / Visions of an alternative -- Overview essay / Economic possibilities for our grandchildren / Alternatives to mass consumption / Exiting the squirrel cage / How to bring joy into our economics / Qualitative growth / The poverty of affluence : new alternatives / A culture of permanence / Living more simply and civilizational revitalization / Subject index -- Name index.

Collected poems, 1930-1976 : including 43 new poems

Poems. Selections

This fevers me -- O wild chaos! -- The Bells of a Chinese temple -- Maze -- For a Lamb -- Caravan of Silence -- Four Lakes' Days -- Ode to Silence -- The Return of Odysseus -- 'Where are those High and Haunting Skies' -- Suite in Prison -- The Groundhog -- The Rape of the Cataract -- 1934 -- 'In a Hard Intellectual Light' -- 'My Bones Flew Apart' -- The Transfer -- Request for Offering -- Necessity -- The Scarf of June -- Experience Evoked -- Two Loves -- Burnder -- 'In Prisons of Established Craze' -- The Largess -- 'When Doris Danced' -- 'The Critic with his Pained Eye' -- The Young Hunter -- 'When Goolden Flies upon my Carcasss Come' -- 'Now is the Air made of Chiming Balls' -- The Child -- Let the Tight Lizard on the Wall' -- 'I Went to see Irving Babbitt' -- Recollection of Childhood -- Orchard -- The Soul Long To Return whence it Came -- Grave Pice -- The Humanist -- The Virgin -- 'Man's Greed and Envy are so Great' -- 'The Goal of Intellectual Man -- 'If I could only live at the Pitch that is near Madness' -- 'I Walked Out to the Graveyard to see the Dead' -- A Meditation -- 'The Full of Joy do not Know; they Need not' -- Rumination -- 'Cover Me Over' -- The Recapitulation -- 'Imagining How it would be to be Dead' -- 'I walked over the Grave of Henry James' -- The Ineffable -- 'Mysticism Had Not the Patience to wait for God's Revelation' -- The Dream -- THe Moment of Vision -- Restrospective Forelook -- The Lyric Absolute -- 'I Will Not Dare to ask One Question' -- New Hampshire, February -- Triptych -- Ode to the Chinese Paper Snake -- Burr Oaks -- Dam Neck, Virginia -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment -- An Airman Considers his Power -- At the End of War -- A Ceremony by the Sea -- World War -- Brotherhood of Men -- Indian Pipe -- 'Go to the Shne that's on a Tree' -- 'Sometimes the Longing for Death -- At Night -- A Love Poem -- God and Man -- The Horse Chestnut Tree -- The Tobacconist of Eighth Street -- Seals, Terns, Time -- The Cancer Cells -- Forms of the Human -- Oedipus -- Fragment of New York, 1929 -- Aesthetics after War -- On Shooting Particles beyond the World -- A Legend of Viable Women -- The Verbalist of Summer -- Concord Cats -- On the Fragility of Mind -- Great Praises -- The Dry Rot -- The Skier and the Mountain -- The Human Being is a Lonely Creature -- The Book of Nature -- Cousin Florence -- Sestina -- 'My Golden and My Fierce Assays' -- Ur Burial -- Seeing is Deceiving -- Analogue of Unity in Multeity -- Sea-Hawk -- Sainte Anne de Beaupre -- Mediterranean Song -- To Evan -- The Day-Bed -- Formative Mastership -- The Hand and the Shadow -- Words -- On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn -- Centennial for Whitman -- Soul -- Fables of the Moon -- Salem -- The Return -- The Giantess -- The Wisdom of Insecurity -- Sunday in October -- Sumer Landscape -- Only in the Dream -- Nothing but Chan ge -- Thrush Song at Dawn -- The Voyage -- Off Spectable Island -- The Seasons -- The Noble Man -- The Forgotten Rock -- Attitudes -- An Old Fashioned American Business Man -- A Young Greek, Killed in the Wars -- Protagonists -- A Soldier Rejectis his Times Addressing his Contemporaries -- 'Blessed Are the Angels in Heaven -- Villanelle -- Life as Visionary Spirit -- Fortune's Mist -- Yonder -- Autumnal -- The Sacrifice -- Lucubration -- In After Time -- A Testament -- Request -- Love Among the Ruins -- Anima -- The Supreme Authority of the Imagination -- Perception as a Guided Missile -- By the Stream -- What Gives -- The Oak -- In the Garden -- The Lost Children -- A Commitment -- Apple Buds -- Throwing the Apple -- The Garden God -- Light from Above -- Austere Poem -- Hoot Owls -- Tree Swallows -- The Clam Diggers and Diggers of Sea Worms -- A Ship Burning and a Comet all in One Day -- The Hard Structure of the World -- The Parker River -- At the Canoe Club -- Ospreys in Cry -- Half-bent Man -- Spring Mountain Climb -- The Passage -- The Gods of Washington, D.C. -- Equivalence of Gnats and Mice -- Birth and Death -- The Incomparable Light -- Mais l'amour infini me montera dans lame -- On Seeing an Egyptian Mummy in Berlin, 1932 -- The Spider -- Sea-Ruck -- The Hamlet Father -- Four Exposures -- La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour -- Loss -- To Auden on His Fiftieth -- To William Carlos Williams -- Nexus -- Examination of Psyche: Thoughts of Home -- The Project -- Matador -- Prometheus -- Old Tom -- The Height of Man -- An Evaluation under a Pine Tree, Lying on Pine Needles -- Kaire -- A New England Bachelor -- A Maine Roustabout -- Sea Burial from the Cruiser Reve -- Flux -- Ruby Daggett -- Hardening into Print -- The Lament of a New England Mother -- The Lost -- Moment of Equilibrium among the Islands -- Am I My Neighbor's Keeper? -- Christmas Tree -- Looking at the Stars -- Dream Journey of the Head and Heart -- Winter Kill -- Later or Sooner -- The Gesture -- Ultimate Song -- Vision -- May Evening -- Ways and Means -- Meditation Two -- The Illusions of Eternity -- The Standards -- The Birth of the Spirit -- Extremity -- 'My brains are slipping in the fields of Eros' -- Refrains -- To Harriet Monroe -- 'Whenever I see beauty I see death' -- Recognition -- Opulence -- Memory -- The Vastness and Indifference of the World -- Hill Dream of Youth, Thirty Years Later -- Why? -- R.G.E. -- To the Field Mice -- The Assassin -- Ball Game -- The Enigma -- THe Haystack -- Santa Claus in Oaxaca -- Looking Head On -- Solace -- Evil -- Marrakech -- Lions Copulating -- The Ides of March -- A Wedding on Cape Rosier -- On Returning to a Lake in Spring -- The Explorer of Main Street -- Sanders Theater -- The Young and the Old -- Old Question -- John Ledyard -- Van Black, an Old Farmer in his Dell -- Froth -- The Swallow Return -- The Wedding -- To Kenya Tribesmen, The Turkana -- Kinaesthesia -- The Anxiety I felt in Guanajuato -- Track -- The Bower -- Despair -- Suicide Note -- Evening Bird Song -- The Secret Heart -- Time Passes -- Broken Wing Theory -- The Fisher Cat -- Reading Room, The New York Public Library -- Meaningless Poem -- Homage to the North -- As If You Had Never Been -- The Breathless -- Stealth and Subleties of Growth -- Emily Dickinson -- Hardy Perennial -- Quarrel with a Cloud -- Gnats on my Paper -- The Truncated Bird -- Man's Type -- Long Term Suffering -- You think they are permanent but they pass -- Hatred of the Old River -- Vermont Idyll -- The Scouring -- The Cage -- The Poet -- Man and Nature -- Old Tree by the Penobscot -- Placation of Reality -- Emblem -- Worldly Failure -- A Man who was Blown Dead by the Wind -- The Hop-Toad -- United 555 -- Light, Time, Dark -- Death in the Mines -- Adam Cast Forth (Borges) -- Redemption -- Undercliff Evening -- Portrait of Rilke -- Sphinxd -- The Groundhog Revisiting -- Big Rock -- American Hakluyt -- Life and Death -- Flow of Thought -- Mind and Nature -- Wild Life and Tamed Life -- Inchiquin Lake, Penobscot Bay -- Face, Ocean -- Three Kis -- Trying to Hold It All Together -- A Way Out -- Incidence of Flight -- Slow Boat Ride -- The Poem as Trajectory -- Snow Cascades -- Coast of Maine -- Usurper -- Vision Through Timothy -- Once More, O ye ...

Furthest fables for our time.

Fables

The big book of animal fables.

The long chalkboard and other stories

Fables

Ready-to-go classroom library. Grade 2