Product Description: What do men like to read? This latest title in the successful 100 Must-read series provides a rich crop of selected reads of eternal fascination to men everywhere. With 100 titles fully featured and over 500 recommended, there is something for everyone, from the macho to the sentimental, sex, drugs and rock and roll, old age, childhood, power, seduction, courage and adventure...read more

Product Description: This list of 101 important Texas books, all still in print, provides a balanced representation of Texas history, culture, and literature, covering a wide range of genres and classifications: fiction and non-fiction, classic and contemporary, cookbooks, children's books, books on sports, crime, personalities, and nature...read more

Product Description: As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality. Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom, but the only houses poised to capitalize on the outpouring of manuscripts were adult paperback publishers who marketed their products with salacious covers...read more

Product Description: En su peregrinar por los diferentes estados de la República Mexicana, impartiendo talleres de creación literaria, Claudia Guillén ha tenido la oportunidad de conocer y adentrarse en las inquietudes de los participantes de dichos talleres, así como de percatarse de su perfil: sinuoso como la geografía del país...read more

Product Description: En un apasionante recorrido por algunas de las obras maestras de la literatura universal, Juan Ignacio Alonso y Fran Zabaleta nos descubren los principales secretos de aquellos libros que han transformado la forma de pensar y sentir de millones de personas...read more

Product Description: "Acts of Reading" examines how John Foxe's "Actes and Monuments" shaped reading and interpretive practice in the early modern period and addresses the impact of recent electronic editions of Foxe's text on current reading practice and scholarship...read more

Product Description: This book is a pioneering study of the modern Australian novel: defining the genre; tracing its development; explaining some of its principal features; discussing the characteristics of adolescent novels written in the past three decades; and exploring ways in which Australian adolescent novels may be seen to offer something different from works published elsewhere, to be specifically 'Australian'...read more

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Product Description: The Adventures of Little Bit was written by Janet Warner and Lynn Rosen

Product Description: Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination...read more

Product Description: A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise.

Product Description: Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions of justice, confused and appalled by new forms of high and low culture, and resistant to the social and economic freedom of women―in all of these ways the Catholic Church set itself up as a thoroughly anti-modern institution...read more