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View book details for How Bad Are Bananas?
The Carbon Footprint of Everything
Greystone Books
Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking.The book puts our …
View book details for Thugs: Seven
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (Book 7)
W. Clark Distribution & Media Corporation
Romance and Thug Lovin' is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. Trae and Tasha fight to hold on to what they have after he's released from prison, but when Trae is given a package containing some …
View book details for Heaven Is Waiting
Theres No Place Like Home
iUniverse
Heaven Is Waiting is about heaven, but it is much more. It is about our longing for heaven, our innate instinct for it. It is about eternity in our hearts and how the hope of heaven inspires and sustains us. …
LSU Press
These rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday events. Moments of insight -- gained while watching a roofer at work next door, napping with …
View book details for Spans
New and Selected Poems
LSU Press
Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a …
LSU Press
Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously …
LSU Press
Sally Van Dorens Promise features a series of short lyric poems, contemplative vignettes of daily life that examine friendship, marriage, and family with a veneer of playfulness. These poems take us into a space where a year is compressed into …
View book details for Public Spaces, Private Gardens
A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans
LSU Press
Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which have never before been published -- to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who …
LSU Press
Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Beginning with the hope and promise of springtime, poet Matthew Thorburn traces the course of a year with sections set in each of the four seasons. …
View book details for Game Warden
On Patrol in Louisiana
LSU Press
Of all law enforcement officers, game wardens inspire the most awe in the mind of the public. Working day and night, often in challenging terrain and bad weather, game wardens typically operate alone in remote areas and must understand the …
LSU Press
In her beguiling new collection, Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat invites the reader to celebrate the unfinished and unsure. The poems in this volume do not demand or offer certainty, existing instead in the spaces between the real and the imagined, …
View book details for Winding through Time
The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac
LSU Press
Once considered one of the most important waterways in the American southeast and a vital link in a shortcut from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana's Bayou Manchac rests in virtual obscurity today. Few now notice the …
View book details for A Politics of Understanding
The International Thought of Raymond Aron
LSU Press
Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly …
View book details for Casanova Was A Book Lover
And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books
LSU Press
Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics …
View book details for Inventing Baseball Heroes
Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
LSU Press
In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other …
LSU Press
In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera -- both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers -- …
LSU Press
In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, …
View book details for Christina Rossetti
Faith, Gender and Time
LSU Press
Since Arthur Symonss declaration in 1895 in the Saturday Review that Christina Rossetti was among the great poets of the nineteenth century, Rossettis image among critics has undergone permutations as divergent as Victorian culture is from postmodern. Now Diane DAmico …
View book details for The Master of Insomnia
Selected Poems
Dalkey Archive Press
A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, The Master of Insomnia is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak's verse from the last fifteen years, including numerous poems never before available in …
Dalkey Archive Press
The Lady of Solitude projects a fresh and daring new voice on to the Brazilian literary scene. These transgressive and highly charged erotic stories are all written from a woman's point of view and they offer an unexpected perspective on …
Dalkey Archive Press
At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "write a book about light." The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times …
Dalkey Archive Press
The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande …
Dalkey Archive Press
Oliver Rohe's first novel is a word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man named Selber flying back to his wartorn native country for the first time in years. Grappling with his fear of flying and increasingly possessed by reminiscences …
Dalkey Archive Press
Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itselfor a foreigner's nightmare of New Yorkas its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns …
Lexington Books
The purpose of The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project is to show that in order to understand popular disillusionment with democratization, liberalization, and other transformations associated with the attempts of non-Western societies to appropriate the …
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