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Finding Joy in Joyce

A Readers Guide to Ulysses

By: John P. Anderson

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Finding Joy in Joyce

A Readers Guide to Ulysses

By: John P. Anderson

This is a detailed reader's guide to James Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, voted the most important novel of the 20th century. The guide provides episode by episode an in depth explanation of the action and symbolism, including a description of the related books of Homer's Odyssey and the correspondences. This guide is designed to give the user the keys to the kingdom of one of the wonders of Western civilization. The non-academic author, a retired lawyer and life long Joyce reader, brings new approaches to find the deep meaning of each of Joyce's episodes and the novel as a whole. The scope of this effort, the complete Joyce, is unique in an area monopolized by more narrowly focused academics. The analysis elucidates Joyce's technique to mimic patterns in history and nature in his architecture of coherence. His medicine for the diseased spirit of our age is a custom blend of Jesus and Buddha, not as they are marketed by institutional religions, but as they lived their lives as humans. Joyce's god is more possibilities in life and art, and this guide will do that for you.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581127626

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9781581127621

Ancestral Voices

A Novel of America

By: John Mears

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Ancestral Voices

A Novel of America

By: John Mears

Ancestral Voices is multi-generational epic that traces the histories of several families from the earliest settlement of America to contemporary times. The main conflict of the story develops from a dispute between two brothers in the wake of the War of Independence that has disastrous, as well as joyous consequences almost two centuries later for some of their descendants when the family is reconnected. The novel begins in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. The central character, Katharine Carter Harrison--about to enter Yale's first coed class--struggles with her identitiy, which is an amalgam of her Connecticut father and her Virginia mother, and with the fate of her beloved brother who enlists to fight in Vietnam. When a distant cousin, Aaron Keeler, unexpectedly enters the lives of Katharine and her brother, it seems that some perverse hand of destiny is at work, as well as a curse that has run through the family for centuries. Ancestral Voices is a compelling love story, a tale of generational revenge, and a saga where the main characters suffer from obsessions with their ancestral past and a terrifying nexus between fiction and reality.

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597

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iUniverse

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1450251315

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9781450251310

No Friday Night Lights

Reservation Football on the Edge of America

By: John M. Glionna

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No Friday Night Lights

Reservation Football on the Edge of America

By: John M. Glionna

No Friday Night Lights tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border"--

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278

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U of Nebraska Press

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149623149X

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9781496231499

Weird Vibes and Other Tales

By: John Smith

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Weird Vibes and Other Tales

By: John Smith

From the mind of John Smith to the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, eight stories are now together for the first time in this digital collection. From the sublime to the downright disturbing, these stand-alone short stories feature the worlds and characters from some of John Smith's best known series. The reptillian nun, conceptual artist and cosmic bounty hunter, Tyranny Rex, must survive Demonic forces, Occult organisations and dimension-hopping dream parasites if she wants to keep her tail in tact! Agents of the interdimensional INDIGO PRIME continue their work repairing (and often even rebooting) universes under threat from catastophic reality-shattering events including New York disappearing due to a mass LSD trip and a powerful Vodoo Priestess resurrecting Elvis Presley by way of Magickal haircuts. Meanwhile, vampiric Vatican agent, international celebrity and bon vivant, Devlin Waugh, finds himself the target of an obsessed stalker and diabolic entities...

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149

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2000 AD Books

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1786180316

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9781786180315

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

By: John Felstiner

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Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

By: John Felstiner

In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.

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435

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Yale University Press

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0300155530

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9780300155532

The Gates of Exquisite View

A compelling technothriller set in Taiwan packed with intrigue and suspense

By: John Trenhaile

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The Gates of Exquisite View

A compelling technothriller set in Taiwan packed with intrigue and suspense

By: John Trenhaile

A new supercomputer spells doom for Taiwan... Amid the explosion of computer technology in the 1990s, nothing comes close to Apogee – a software program able to process human speech in any language, paving the way for pilotless planes, driverless tanks and a global communications network limited only by human imagination. China, soon to resume control of Hong Kong, is now obsessed with an even greater prize in its long march to Pacific supremacy: Taiwan. The outcome is not in doubt, as long as China can secure Apogee – but there’s a problem. The software belongs to Ducannon Young Electronics in Taiwan where Mat Young, son of owner Simon, represents his autocratic father. Simon sees little beyond the limitless profits Apogee will generate, but his less hard-boiled son has become embroiled with a Taiwanese actress whose loyalties are hard to read. All sides will go to any lengths to get inside Mat’s head, convinced that his unique position must give him access to Apogee’s secrets. But Mat knows nothing, and not even the horrors of the torture chamber known to history as the Gates of Exquisite View can change that... A chilling high-stakes technothriller from ‘the heir-apparent to Le Carré’, perfect for fans of Robert Ludlum and Martin Cruz Smith. Praise for The Gates of Exquisite View ‘There is rarely a moment to pause for breath between the agonizingly suspenseful events in a thriller that is worthy of its genre’ Publishers Weekly

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567

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Canelo

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1804365343

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9781804365342

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee

Vol. III

By: John W. Head

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Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee

Vol. III

By: John W. Head

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752555343

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9783752555349

Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold

By: John Howard Reid

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Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold

By: John Howard Reid

Michaela Morris is the general manager of a Country Club in a leading city, Jarrico Junction, in the South. The Club is staging an important Golf Tournament, but Michaela is under pressure not only from a rival attraction that is being staged at the ball park, but from illegal campers who have erected their tents on a small but vital part of the course. So she befriends the newly elected District Attorney. He is under other pressures, particularly from the city's leading citizen, a highly eccentric and somewhat recluse multimillionaire, who insists that visitors remove their shoes before coming into his presence. The millionaire's first wife died under mysterious circumstances while he himself was abroad. His new wife is frightened to death of him. His name is Newman Nesdorf, but he bears two nicknames: Next-Door Nesdorf and Whiplash Nesdorf. In fact, as our heroine, Michaela Morris, comments at one stage, Nesdorf is not content unless he has two of everything: two wives, two nicknames, two bodyguards, two...

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Lulu.com

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1312918101

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9781312918108

Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, and the Head-waters of the Connecticut, Macalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers, Dixiville Notch, Grafton Notch and Andover, Maine, and Vicinity

By: Charles Alden John Farrar

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Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, and the Head-waters of the Connecticut, Macalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers, Dixiville Notch, Grafton Notch and Andover, Maine, and Vicinity

By: Charles Alden John Farrar

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385333792

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9783385333796

Marcus Aurelius

By: John Sellars

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Marcus Aurelius

By: John Sellars

In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is a perennial bestseller, attracting countless readers drawn to its unique mix of philosophical reflection and practical advice. The emperor is usually placed alongside Seneca and Epictetus as one of three great Roman Stoic authors, but he wears his philosophy lightly, not feeling the need to state explicitly the ideas standing behind the reflections that he was writing for himself. As a consequence, his standing as a philosopher has often been questioned. Challenging claims that Marcus Aurelius was merely an eclectic thinker, that the Meditations do not fit the model of a work of philosophy, that there are no arguments in the work, and that it only contains superficial moral advice, Sellars shows that he was in constant dialogue with his Stoic predecessors, engaging with themes drawn from all three parts of Stoicism: logic, physics, and ethics. The image of Marcus Aurelius that emerges is of a committed Stoic, engaging with a wide range of philosophical topics, motivated by the desire to live a good life. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of both Classics and Philosophy.

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Routledge

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0429627963

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9780429627965

Book's by John Haines

Finding Joy in Joyce

Finding Joy in Joyce

Ancestral Voices

Ancestral Voices

No Friday Night Lights

No Friday Night Lights

Weird Vibes and Other Tales

Weird Vibes and Other Tales

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

The Gates of Exquisite View

The Gates of Exquisite View

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee

Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold

Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold

Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, and the Head-waters of the Connecticut, Macalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers, Dixiville Notch, Grafton Notch and Andover, Maine, and Vicinity

Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes, and the Head-waters of the Connecticut, Macalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers, Dixiville Notch, Grafton Notch and Andover, Maine, and Vicinity

Marcus Aurelius

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