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How food systems reflect our values and contribute to our economy, environment, and culture

Explore the mind and motivations of a serial killer

Though it has been one of the most influential critical works of the last fifty years, Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction has disappointed many readers in its treatment of modernism. Despite Booth's astute and influential readings of earlier novels, his system shed little light on the experiments in point of view that characterize many more recent works. Despite a revision some two decades after its first publication, the book continues to strike many readers as outdated in its choices of authors and texts. In a bold updating of that seminal work, Morton P. Levitt, long-time editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, explores the rhetoric of point of view in modernist and post-modernist novels, offering new insights into some of the greatest works of the last century. As the editor of one of the most important journals in the field, Levitt has been uniquely situated to absorb and reflect critically upon the most significant scholarship on modernist fiction. In a series of subtle, persuasive readings, he demonstrates that the rejection of omniscience is one of the defining characteristics of modernist and post-modernist novels. From Joyce and Woolf to Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and José Saramago, Levitt discusses a wide range of texts in readings that will be accessible to students and invaluable to scholars.

This book traces the Quaker experience in New England and New York from the Arrival of the first English Quaker missionaries in 1646 to 1790. The first Friends faced considerable hostility, so much so that it took almost eighty years for Quakers and their antagonists to solve their differences. By then, Quakers had settled into a comfortable period of numerical increase, and, to the extent that colonies permitted, participated as individuals in colonial political life. During the early eighteenth century Quaker organizational and disciplinary structures derived from the late seventeenth century underwent gradual evolution, but not to the extent of altering the basically comfortable arrangement that served to promote the growth of Friends. After 1750, however, Quakers throughout the colonies entered a period of reform, a reform that led to a numerical decline in older centers and to a drastic reduction in numerical growth. Reform ultimately caused Friends to sharpen their positions on antislavery and pacifism and led to a withdrawal from political participation. Ultimately, it pointed the way to the disastrous nineteenth-century Quaker schisms.

A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.

An illustrated popular guide to the Granite State's rich architectural heritage.

A field guide to mammal tracks with detailed illustrations, concise useful information, and a key for identification.

B.B. French knew just about everything and everyone in the sweep of American history from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War and Reconstruction. His recollections shed light on the personalities, events, manners, and politics of the times.

A social and ecological history of the rise and demise of Cape Cod's coastal fisheries in the nineteenth century

Traces the historical development of civil society and philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the problems faced by modern liberal democracy

Investigates the history and ecology of the cranberry to assess the effects of climate change on this and other cultivated fruits

The ultimate history of skiing from a renowned insider

Available in its complete form for the first time since its original publication.

A physicians' guide to navigating retirement

The final edition of a valuable reference work documenting the story of Communism from its beginnings to its amazing collapse.

The untold story of how colonial pirates transformed America and brought it to the brink of rebellion

An intimate look at the breadth of Neel's oeuvre

The well-known companion to The Book of Literary Terms and The Book of Dialogue, this indispensable bible of poetics now includes a wealth of "odd and invented" verse forms

An El Paso sheriff's investigation of the Nazi spy ring that orchestrated the murder of two California socialites in the Texas desert on the eve of World War II

An inspiring look at a world of play almost forgotten

Now back in print, Living at the End of Time is the story of a Thoreauvian experiment in simple living undertaken in the midst of the fast-paced electronic age

Personal narratives and recent studies in brain science illustrate how addiction is a chronic illness