Best Authors Of 20th And 21st Century - April 2024

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• ASIN: 0525512179
• ASIN: 0525512179
• ISBN: 0525512179
• Brand: Spiegel & Grau
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

20th Century Ghosts

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading int... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061147982
• ASIN: 0061147982
• ISBN: 0061147982
• Brand: Harper Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction

This is a collection of stories from 16 of Mexico's finest fiction writers, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small town dramas to tales of urban savagery, the country is explored in a multitude of voices and settings.

• ASIN: 1564785149
• ASIN: 1564785149
• ISBN: 1564785149
• Brand: Brand: Dalkey Archive Press
• Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press

Gibson Girls and Suffragists: Perceptions of Women from 1900 to 1918 (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century)

Looks at the roles of American women at the turn of the century as seen in the stereotypes of the sophisticated and fashionable Gibson girl and the strong-minded suffragists and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.

• ASIN: 0822571501
• ASIN: 0822571501
• ISBN: 0822571501
• Manufacturer: Twenty-First Century Books

Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century)

Looks at the role of women in postwar America, discussing the common perceptions of women at the time--including flappers and housewives--and illustrating how they were reflected in the magazines, catalogs, and films of the time.

• ASIN: 0822560607
• ASIN: 0822560607
• ISBN: 0822560607
• Manufacturer: Twenty-First Century Books

Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an impressive run of hyperdevelopment and wealth creation—culminating in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?   Wealth and Power answers t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812976258
• ASIN: 0812976258
• ISBN: 0812976258
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Best American Short Stories 03 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Lending a fresh perspective to a perennial favorite, Wa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618197338
• UPC: 046442197335
• ASIN: 0618197338
• ISBN: 9780618197330
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company

The Best American Poetry 2010: Series Editor David Lehman

AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today. Featuring poems from some of our country’s top bards, including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Louise Glück, Sharon Olds, and Charles Simic, The Best American Poetry 2010 also presents poems that poignantly capture the current moment, such as the sonnets John Updike wrote to chronicle his dying we... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439181454
• ASIN: 1439181454
• ISBN: 1439181454
• Brand: Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

• ASIN: 074324754X
• ASIN: 074324754X
• ISBN: 9780743247542
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.

• ASIN: 0060084383
• ASIN: 0060084383
• ISBN: 0060084383
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

The Best American Short Stories 1999

• ASIN: 039592684X
• UPC: 046442926843
• ASIN: 039592684X
• ISBN: 039592684X
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company

The Best American Short Stories 2008 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a “magnificent array” (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition “reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect” (Publishers Weekly).“We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of free... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618788778
• UPC: 046442788779
• ASIN: 0618788778
• ISBN: 0618788778
• Manufacturer: Mariner

The Best American Short Stories 2001 (The Best American Series)

This year’s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver’s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. “Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life — my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours.” — Barbara Kingsolver

• ASIN: 0395926882
• UPC: 046442926881
• ASIN: 0395926882
• ISBN: 0395926882
• Manufacturer: Best American

Toward a Revolution in Military Affairs?: Defense and Security at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (Contributions in Military St.; 197)

The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), unleashed by the integration of information technologies into weapons systems, military units, and operations is a phenomenon whose impacts have been felt well beyond the Gulf in 1991 or the Balkans in 1999. Technological developments lie at the center of these changes; however, the RMA is about more than technology. It includes the consequences of technological changes for defense and security. This study provides an assessment of the RMA that goes beyond a mere description of new defense-related technologies to deal with deeper, more fundamental issu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0313310378
• ASIN: 0313310378
• ISBN: 0313310378
• Manufacturer: Praeger

The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Strange Rebels : 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

Describes five simultaneous progressive movements in China, Poland, Iran, Britain, and Afghanistan during 1979 that created economic powerhouses and started holy wars and discusses how these movements shaped the current world

• UPC: 33817359
• Rating: 4.5

Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st Centuries - eBook

Those Ugly Americans: 20th and 21st Centuries, by Captain Rodney Stich This book describes  those people, mostly in government, whose conduct justifies the label, Ugly American, and whose conduct either directly caused, or enabled to

• UPC: 912806122

'Passing' Stories in Literature and Film in the 20th and 21st Century. Duncan Tucker's 'Transamerica' and Langston Hughes' 'Passing' - eBook

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum, language: English, abstract: 'Passing' and 'passing' stories have been a great topic

• UPC: 638312481

Talking with the Clay : The Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century, 20th Anniversary Revised Edition

When you hold a Pueblo pot in your hands, you feel a tactile connection through the clay to the potter and to centuries of tradition. You will find no better guide to this feeling than

• UPC: 8129242

20TH & 21ST CENTURY WORKS FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION

20TH & 21ST CENTURY WORKS FOR TWO PIANOS AND

• UPC: 192190829

The Cure in the Code : How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

Reveals the potential of molecular medicine while calling for an update of the regulatory system threatening it, citing diseases that may be cured while explaining how drug-approval protocols are ill-equipped to meet current

• UPC: 23781912

Terrorism and Deadliest Enabling Scandals of 21st Century - eBook

This book describes a pattern of incompetence and corruption by employees in the U.S. Department of Justice that enabled to occur the first series of major terrorist attacks upon the United States.The misconduct included high-level

• UPC: 169363774

Explorers in the 20th and 21st Centuries - eBook

Technological advances—including pressurized cabins for hot air balloons, rocketry that powers spacecraft, and deep-sea diving gear—have changed the face of exploration. What hasn’t changed since ancient times, however, is the bravery and inquisitiveness of intrepid

• UPC: 862957391

Journey Through the 20th & 21st Centuries

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• UPC: 206505744

A History of the World : From the 20th to the 21st Century

A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st

• UPC: 3291523