The Country Blues (Charters Samuel)(Paperback)

The Country Blues (Charters Samuel)(Paperback)

From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Pepys Samuel)(Paperback)

Richard Le Gallienne's elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's quotidian

Molloy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L'Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and

First & Second Samuel- Everyman's Bible Commentary (Laney J. Carl)(Paperback)

The books of Samuel focus on the lives of three men: Samuel, Saul, and David. They are first seen as individuals rising in their respective careers. As time passes, their lives more frequently interact and become interwined with each other. J. Carl Laney covers these two books section by section,

Boy in the Headlights (Bjork Samuel)(Paperback)

The Lives of the Poets: A Selection (Johnson Samuel)(Paperback)

Here is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the lives of the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally covering the lives of 52 poets, with the primary focus on Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope, Johnson's Lives was described by Thomas

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works (Coleridge Samuel Taylor)(Paperback)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English

The Works of Samuel Palmer (Harrison Colin)(Paperback)

Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Pepys Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going &

The Life of MR Richard Savage (Johnson Samuel)(Paperback)

Babel-17 (Delany Samuel R.)(Paperback / softback)

BABEL-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF

Sumerian Mythology (Kramer Samuel Noah)(Paperback)

Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer 'A real addition to the body of world mythology.'--American Anthropologist 'No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all

Report Into the Loss of the SS Titanic (Halpern Samuel)(Paperback)

Samuel Halpern has written widely on Titanic and often used the 1912 wreck report as a source of reference. It occurred to him one day how fascinating it would be if a team of dedicated, passionate, and expert authors were to issue a modern day report, with the knowledge we have today--what would

Bass Guitar for Dummies (Pfeiffer Patrick)(Paperback)

Way more than just the bass-ics Whatever you're playing--funk, soul, rock, blues, country--the bass is the heart of the band. Bassists provide a crucial part of driving force and funky framework that other members of any and work off. From John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to 'The Pixies'' Kim Deal,

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Performed across the globe by some of the world's most iconic performers, Samuel Beckett's indelible masterpiece remains an unwavering testament of what it means to be human. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American

The Fall of the Towers (Delany Samuel R.)(Paperback)

Come and enter Samuel Delany s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets,

Incarnational Mission - Being with the world (Wells Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

In this follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Samuel Wells explores what it means for Christians and churches to engage with the world. Drawing on the Gospels, Acts, and personal insights gleaned from more than two decades in ministry, he shows how 'being with' others

Collected Poems in English and French (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

One of the most important playwrights and novelists of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett was also an accomplished poet and translator. Collected Poems in English and French is a complete collection of all the poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, including his poetry written originally in

Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity (Huntington Samuel P.)(Paperback)

In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, 'civilizations' were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. Now in his controversial new work,

Watt (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in

Samuel Beckett - The Middle and Later Years (Cameron David)(Paperback / softback)

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism (Wimbush Andy)(Paperback)

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an 'abject self-referring quietism'. Andy Wimbush argues that 'quietism'--a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness--is a key to understanding Beckett's artistic

Selected Poetry (Coleridge Samuel Taylor)(Paperback)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry. As a radical young poet in the years following the French revolution, he collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and