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Traces the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, gives its rules, and describes many of the men who were selected to be honored there.

Product Description: A recent study shows that poets are thirty times more likely to suffer from depressive illness than the rest of the population. Editors Smith and Sweeney state in their Introduction that: "It is the unconscious that drives poetry, the jumps and sudden lurches that forge new connections with things not connected before, new ways of seeing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Apart from its verbal felicities (as in her description of cows with their `warm galumphing machinery and tunnelly stomachs') and its refreshing directness of tone, there is the remarkable warmth and humanity which shines through all her poetry...read more

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Product Description: Herein is preserved all that remains of an entire culture, fragments salvaged from the ruins of the Perdu Library by ex-President Perdu himself. About Perdu little is known, and still less about the destruction of the Library. That he was ambitious, that he liked power, that he wished to perpetuate himself and therefore gathered all the books of his republic into one vast library, that he had literary pretensions these are all the known facts...read more

Product Description: The poems in this collection arenot about something else. Rather, in the words of James Joyce, each poem is"the transient, constantly displaced, forever disappearing thing itself."

Product Description: Ken Smith was just a boy of 18 in 1951 when the government asked him to serve. Despite his flat feet, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and began a three-year adventure that took him from the frigid North Atlantic to a tiny atoll in the South Pacific called Ulithi...read more

Nine stories deal with a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter pilot's worried wife, a vacationing lawyer, a retired boxer, a rancher, young lovers, and troubled families

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Product Description: The Peak District, Britain's first National Park, is famous for its outstanding natural beauty. At the heart of the region, on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, features of different periods are often found cheek by jowl, where the land has been in constant use over the centuries...read more

Product Description: Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan's best-selling novel, into a pioneering opera, which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words, captured by Ken Smith, Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to China, where local village traditions, as well as singers, musicians, and designers became an integral part of the creative process...read more

Product Description: This novel follows the adventures of a lone eighteen-year-old, Luke, on his travels across England. Teenage passions drive the young sailor into the arms of lustful men in his quest to lose his virginity.

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline.The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception theory, narrative, media aesthetics, ethics, visual literacy, and cultural studies. Each of these theory chapters is followed by exemplar studies in the area, demonstrating the various methods used in visual communication research as well as the research approaches applicable for specific media types.The Handbook serves as an invaluable reference for visual communication theory as well as a useful resource book of research methods in the discipline. It defines the current state of theory and research in visual communication, and serves as a foundation for future scholarship and study. As such, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines in which the visual component is key, including advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also be useful to practitioners seeking to understand the visual aspects of their media and the visual processes used by their audiences.