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Oxygen: Selected Poems

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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Paperback:

9781938890192 | Zephyr Pr, February 14, 2017, cover price $15.00

From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology: Insights from Psychology

By Bill Johnston

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Paperback:

9780081005453 | Chandos Pub, August 1, 2016, cover price $78.95

Dreams and Stones

Product Description: Dreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. In sculpted, poetic prose reminiscent of Bruno Schulz, it tells the story of the emergence of a great city...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Magdalena Tulli

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Hardcover:

9780972869263 | Archipelago Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $20.00

Paperback:

9780914671503 | Archipelago Books, June 7, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Dreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism.

Canned Goods and Shotguns

Product Description: A chapbook novella, this is a post apocalyptic, biblical, haunting, at times quite funny assault at our notions of self-sacrifice, religion, innocence, noir, the afterlife and the styles of writing itself known to all. It is a chapbook...read more

By Bill Johnston

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9781523337484 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 9, 2016, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: A chapbook novella, this is a post apocalyptic, biblical, haunting, at times quite funny assault at our notions of self-sacrifice, religion, innocence, noir, the afterlife and the styles of writing itself known to all.

Twelve Stations

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780263123678, titled "Carville's Castle/Large Print" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | also contains Carville''s Castle/Large Print

Paperback:

9780983297048 | Italian edition edition (Zephyr Pr, May 12, 2015), cover price $18.00

A Treatise on Shelling Beans

Product Description: Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort. A mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story of his long life: we witness a happy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding from the Nazis buried in a heap of potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder of his family, loves lost but remembered, and footloose travels abroad...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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9781935744900 | Reprint edition (Archipelago Books, December 3, 2013), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Our hero and narrator is the aging caretaker of cottages at a summer resort.

Polish Memories

Product Description: Although Witold Gombrowiczâs unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile...read more

By Witold Gombrowicz and Bill Johnston (trans)

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9780300104103 | Yale Univ Pr, September 10, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Although Witold Gombrowiczâs unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile.

Paperback:

9780300184457 | Yale Univ Pr, November 30, 2011, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Although Witold Gombrowiczâs unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile.

Dukla

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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9781564786876 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $13.95

In Red

Product Description: By the Koscielski Prize-winning author of Dream and Stones, In Red is the gripping cautionary tale in which real and unreal combine explosively, making us question the nature of the work itself. Set in an imaginary fourth partition of Poland, In Red retraces the turbulent history of the Twentieth Century in a labyrinth of greed, inheritance, and entropy, enacting—word by tremulous word—the claustrophobia of a small town from which there seems to be no escape...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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9781935744085 | Archipelago Books, November 15, 2011, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: By the Koscielski Prize-winning author of Dream and Stones, In Red is the gripping cautionary tale in which real and unreal combine explosively, making us question the nature of the work itself.

The First Year at University: Teaching Students in Transition

Product Description: If academics are genuinely to develop as teachers throughout their careers, if they are to continue to produce innovations, they have to bring a scholarly orientation to teaching. This series will show them how to do that. It will teach them how to make credible cases for different forms of innovation, thus helping them to situate teaching centrally in their careers...read more

By Bill Johnston

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9780335234509 | Open Univ Pr, March 1, 2010, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: If academics are genuinely to develop as teachers throughout their careers, if they are to continue to produce innovations, they have to bring a scholarly orientation to teaching.

Paperback:

9780335234516 | 1 edition (Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2010), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: If academics are genuinely to develop as teachers throughout their careers, if they are to continue to produce innovations, they have to bring a scholarly orientation to teaching.

Fado

By Bill Johnston (trans)

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9781564785596 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 8, 2009, cover price $13.95

The Mighty Angel: A Novel

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Jerzy Pilch

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9781934824085 | Open Letter, April 30, 2009, cover price $15.95

Nine

Deep in debt to loan sharks, Pawel, a desperate young businessman, enlists the help of two friends, ex-coal miner-turned-drug dealer Bolek and Jacek, an addict on the run.

By Bill Johnston and Andrzej Stasiuk

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9780151010646 | Italian edition edition (Houghton Mifflin, May 7, 2007), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Deep in debt to loan sharks, Pawel, a desperate young businessman, enlists the help of two friends, ex-coal miner-turned-drug dealer Bolek and Jacek, an addict on the run.

Paperback:

9780156033541 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 19, 2008), cover price $14.00

Peregrinary

Product Description: âNo one is born a poet without pain,â writes acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. In Peregrinary, a selection from his nine volumes of poetry to date, Tkaczyszyn-Dycki offers deeply personal meditations on suffering and dying, and on the dead and our relationship with them...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-dycki

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9780939010974 | Bilingual edition (Zephyr Pr, December 30, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: âNo one is born a poet without pain,â writes acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki.

Flaw

Product Description: A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One dayâout of nowhereâa group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take matters into their own hands...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Magdalena Tulli

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9780979333019 | Archipelago Books, December 4, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city.

New Poems

Product Description: Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rózewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Tadeusz Rozewicz

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9780977857630 | Archipelago Books, March 1, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century.

Bacacay

Product Description: A balloonist finds himself set upon by erotic lepersâ¦a passenger on a ship notices a human eye on the deckâ¦a group of aristocrats enjoy a vegetarian dish made from human fleshâ¦a virginal young girl gnaws raw meat from a boneâ¦a notorious ruffian is terrorized by a rat...read more

By Witold Gombrowicz and Bill Johnston (trans)

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9780972869294 | Archipelago Books, October 15, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A balloonist finds himself set upon by erotic lepersâ¦a passenger on a ship notices a human eye on the deckâ¦a group of aristocrats enjoy a vegetarian dish made from human fleshâ¦a virginal young girl gnaws raw meat from a boneâ¦a notorious ruffian is terrorized by a rat.

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9780976395072 | Archipelago Books, August 30, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A balloonist finds himself set upon by erotic lepersâ¦a passenger on a ship notices a human eye on the deckâ¦a group of aristocrats enjoy a vegetarian dish made from human fleshâ¦a virginal young girl gnaws raw meat from a boneâ¦a notorious ruffian is terrorized by a rat.

Noonday Cemetery And Other Stories

Product Description: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of 2003.The Noonday Cemetery & Other Stories, selected by Herling himself shortly before his death in 2000, is a collection of thirteen brilliant stories spanning the last twenty years of his life...read more

By Gustaw Herling and Bill Johnston (trans)

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9780811216395 | New Directions, February 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of 2003.

Moving Parts

Product Description: A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply, repeat, and go astray; his employer pays no attention, asleep in a drunken stupor...read more

By Bill Johnston

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9780976395003 | Archipelago Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands.

The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories

A collection of thirteen stories, including 'The Noonday Cemetary,' 'and 'A Hot Breath of Desert.' (view table of contents)

By Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski and Bill Johnston (trans)

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9780811215299 | New Directions, June 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirteen stories, including 'The Noonday Cemetary,' 'and 'A Hot Breath of Desert.

Values in English Language Teaching

By Bill Johnston

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Hardcover:

9780805842937 | Routledge, December 1, 2002, cover price $105.00

Paperback:

9780805842944 | Routledge, December 1, 2002, cover price $46.95

Miscellaneous:

9781410606983 | Routledge, December 13, 2002, cover price $27.95

The Moral Dimensions of Teaching: Language, Power, and Culture in Classroom Interaction

Product Description: Cary Buzzelli and Bill Johnson reinvigorate the enduring question: What is the place of morality in the classroom? Departing from notions of a morality that can only be abstract and absolute, these authors ground their investigation in analyses of actual teacher-student interactions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Cary A. Buzzelli and Bill Johnston

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9780815339274 | Routledge, February 1, 2002, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Cary Buzzelli and Bill Johnson reinvigorate the enduring question: What is the place of morality in the classroom?

Paperback:

9780815339397 | Routledge, April 1, 2002, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Cary Buzzelli and Bill Johnson reinvigorate the enduring question: What is the place of morality in the classroom?

His Current Woman

Product Description: Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house. That's bad. She is hauling her suitcase (containing her books) and her backpack (containing everything else she owns)...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Jerzy Pilch

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9780810119185 | Northwestern Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Pawel Kohoutek, veterinarian and womanizer, looks out the window one morning to see his mistress approaching his house.

The Faithful River

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Stefan Zeromski

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9780810115965 | Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $19.00

The Shadow Catcher

Product Description: Andrzej Szczypiorski is one of the major figures in world literature. In The Shadow Catcher, he tells the story of a boy who comes of age as the world around him begins to fall apart. At fifteen, Krzys is the adored and sheltered son of a wealthy Polish family; it is the moment just before World War II, which will forever change their lives, but Krzys is only partly aware of what is happening around him...read more

By Bill Johnston (trans) and Andrzej Szczypiorski

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9780802135650 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Andrzej Szczypiorski is one of the major figures in world literature.

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