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Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exact... More

This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives... More

Conscious Service: Ten ways to reclaim your calling, move beyond burnout, and make a difference without sacrificing yourself will help service providers in all types of human service understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue and discover a renewed energy for serving others. Each of u... More

From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allen Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside f... More

Originally published in 1942 under the title Minha Vida de Menina--Portuguese meaning "My Life as a Little Girl or "Young Girl"--this book is a diary that was kept by the author, Helena Morley (pseudonym of Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant), when she was between the ages of twelve and fifteen (1893-1895... More

This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The vital intimacy of the relationship between... More

This book is a bilingual collection of Paz's poems. Throughout this book the poet's abiding concern for language as a living force is revealed.... More

Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop * Truman Capote * John Cheever * Roald Dahl * Janet Flanner * Nadine Gordimer * A. J. Liebling * Dwight Macdonald * Joseph Mitchell * Marianne Moore * Vladimir Nabokov * Sylvia Plath * V. S. Pritchett * Adrienne Rich * Lillian Ross * Philip Roth * Anne Sex... More

Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. ... More

La colección «Poesía Portátil» une en esta selección los versos más icónicos de Elizabeth Bishop, clave en la poesía norteamericana del siglo XX. Heredera natural de Whitman y Dickinson, Bishop fue una figura desconocida durante años. Detrás de la aparente sencillez con la que revestía sus textos... More

The 5th edition of the prestigious AECT Handbook continues previous efforts to reach outside the traditional instructional design and technology community to the learning sciences and computer information systems communities toward developing a conceptualization of the field. However, given the perv... More

Uncover how and why things work in our universe with 15 essential scientific concepts that involve topics in states of matter, The Periodic Table, vibrations and chemical reactions. This resource provides suggestions for differentiating instruction to meet the needs to all readers and offers four vi... More

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back int... More

Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life. Including a range of personal, academic and clinical p... More