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Thoreau’s Microscope

By: Michael Blumlein

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The innovative novels and stories of Michael Blumlein, MD, have introduced new levels of both terror and wonder into the fiction of scientific speculation. His work as a medical researcher and internist at San Francisco’s UCSF Medical Center informs his tales of biotech, epigenetics, brain science, and what it means to be truly if only temporarily human. Our title piece, “Thoreau’s Microscope,” inspired by a historic High Sierra expedition with Kim Stanley Robinson and Gary Snyder and first published here, is a stunning mix of hypothesis and history, in which the author inhabits Thoreau’s final days to examine the interaction of impersonal science and personal liberation. A journey as illuminating as it is intimate. Plus… A selection of short stories with Blumlein’s signature mix of horror, “hard” science, and wicked humor. “Fidelity” coolly deconstructs adultery with the help of an exuberant tumor, an erotic cartoon, and a male malady. “Y(ou)r Q(ua)ntifi(e)d S(el)f” will reset your Fitbit and your workout as well. “Paul and Me” is a love story writ extra-large, in which an Immortal from Fantasy comes down with a distinctly human disorder. In the chilling “Know How, Can Do” a female Frankenstein brings romance to life in the cold light of the lab. And Featuring:Our overly intrusive Outspoken Interview, in which the ethics of experimental medicine, animal surgery, the poetry of prose, cult film acclaim, Charles Ludlam, Darwin, and gender dysphoria all submit to examination.

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PM Press

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1629635294

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9781629635293

Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds

The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision

By: Michael Benjamin Berger

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Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds

The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision

By: Michael Benjamin Berger

It demonstrates that in his late career Thoreau was working as scientist and poet simultaneously. This study further explorers how Thoreau managed the philosophical and rhetorical tensions involved in bridging the supposed gap between science and poetry, and how, in his later career, he embraced the empirical method of scientific discovery while challenging the reductive assumptions of scientific materialism."--BOOK JACKET.

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184

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Camden House

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157113168X

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9781571131683

Transcendental Wordplay

America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature

By: Michael West

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Transcendental Wordplay

America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature

By: Michael West

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.

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Ohio University Press

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0821413244

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9780821413241

Democratic Discourses

The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature

By: Michael Bennett

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Democratic Discourses

The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature

By: Michael Bennett

Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813535735

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9780813535739

Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts

By: Michael Sperber

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Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts

By: Michael Sperber

This book examines the arts over the course of modern history to illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. These essays propose a paradigm shift in psychiatry, based on the idea that some symptoms of mental illness may have constructive uses.

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University Press of America

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0761849939

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9780761849933

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

By: Michael Newbury

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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

By: Michael Newbury

Through studies of such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe, this book shows how the increased demand for salable entertainment fostered a new consciousness of authorship as a commercial and professional mode of work in the first half of the nineteenth century in America.

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Stanford University Press

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0804728585

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9780804728584

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

American Representations of India, 1721-1893

By: Michael J. Altman

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Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

American Representations of India, 1721-1893

By: Michael J. Altman

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.

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Oxford University Press

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0190654929

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9780190654924

Against Us, But for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State

By: Michael G. Long

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Against Us, But for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the State

By: Michael G. Long

The unforgettable love story that brought us the Academy Award-winning song "Falling Slowly" is now a hit Broadway musical! The songs of Glen Hansard and Mark'ta Irglov? are brought to life anew in a soaring musical theatre setting based on John Carney's smash film. This official sheet music companion folio to the stage version allows music makers to apply their own talent to the beloved score of Once. The 12 selections are based on the renditions from the Original Broadway Cast Recording, arranged for piano and voice, with basic chord fingering grids included for guitarists. Titles: Leave * Falling Slowly * The Moon * If You Want Me * Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy * Say It to Me Now * Gold * Sleeping * When Your Mind's Made Up * The Hill * Gold (a cappella) * Falling Slowly (reprise).

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Mercer University Press

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0865547688

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9780865547681

Second Nature

A Gardener's Education

By: Michael Pollan

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Second Nature

A Gardener's Education

By: Michael Pollan

“One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (USA Today). Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau’s example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history, Second Nature, from the renowned author of The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is “as delicious a meditation on one man’s relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon” (The New York Times Book Review). “Usually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they’ve gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead . . . and he’s returned with a quirky and pleasing book.” —Annie Dillard “A joy to read.” —Los Angeles Times

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802198619

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9780802198617

Literature to Go

By: Michael Meyer

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Literature to Go

By: Michael Meyer

Drawn from our best-selling anthology The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Literature to Go is a brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays supported by the superior instruction you expect from a Michael Meyer anthology. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. The third edition features 66 new, carefully chosen stories, poems, and plays—as well as new art throughout—continuing the anthology’s mission to present literature as a living, changing art form.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319064892

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To Construct Peace

30 More Justice Seekers, Peace Makers

By: Michael True

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To Construct Peace

30 More Justice Seekers, Peace Makers

By: Michael True

In these lively, readable portraits, author Michael True provides unique insights into the lives and writings of 30 individuals and communities devoted to nonviolent social change. In doing so, he points to heroes and heroines, form the 18th century to the present, who worked to build just, peaceful societies in this country and abroad. These include groups such as Catholic workers in the US, students in China, missionaries in Central America, and the Greenham Common women in England, as well as individuals: Michael Harrington, Joan Baez, Rosa Parks, Thomas Merton, Oscar Romero, and others. Their resistance to injustice offers inspiration to all. -- Provided by publisher.

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0896224872

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Composing a Civic Life

A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action

By: Michael Berndt,Amy Muse

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Composing a Civic Life

A Rhetoric and Readings for Inquiry and Action

By: Michael Berndt,Amy Muse

A humorous novel about a private eye living an uneventful life in Brighton until normality gives way to a kind of mad logic. Frank, a private eye in Brighton, is the perfect lodger: neat, quiet, and solitary, a decent man leading an uneventful life. Then his neighbour announces she’s pregnant, his landlady’s budgie is strangled, his boss retires to a sauna, his client’s wife is murdered, the client himself drowns, and his client’s sister dies in a fall from a high cliff path. As Frank’s world tightens into a circle of chaos and death, he seeks escape. But will this be the catalyst he needs, or just another step towards the total collapse of his life?

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321086414

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Book's by Michael Thoreau

Thoreau’s Microscope

Thoreau’s Microscope

Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds

Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds

Transcendental Wordplay

Transcendental Wordplay

Democratic Discourses

Democratic Discourses

Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts

Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu

Against Us, But for Us

Against Us, But for Us

Second Nature

Second Nature

Literature to Go

Literature to Go

To Construct Peace

To Construct Peace

Composing a Civic Life

Composing a Civic Life

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