book.id,book.ts,book.title,book.author,book.additional_info,book.subtitle,book.description,book.publisher,book.publish_date,book.pages,book.isbn_13,book.price,book.about_author,book.category_1_x_book_id,book.book_image_id 64,"2017-04-05 22:37:55","The First Emperor","Sima Qian; Raymond Dawson(trans.) ; K. E. Brashier","OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 9.99","Selections from the Historical Records","'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.'The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and the most famous Chinese historian. He describes the Emperor's birth and the assassination attempt on his life, as well as the political and often brutal events that led to the founding of the dynasty and its aftermath. Sima Qianrecounts the building of the Great Wall, the 'burning of the books', and the construction of the First Emperor's magnificent tomb, a tomb now world famous since the discovery of the terracotta warriors in 1974. Sima Qian's love of anecdote ensures that his history is never dull, and Raymond Dawson's fluenttranslation captures his lively and vivid style. Chronicling recent archaeological developments and questioning Sima Qian's biases, K. E. Brashier's preface highlights the importance of the Grand Historiographer's account and Dawson's translation in the twenty-first century.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","OUP Oxford","July 2007",208,9780191607745,"US$ 9.99","The late Raymond Dawson was Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and author of a number of publications on China, including Confucius (Past Master, 1982) and the OWC edition of Confucius' Analects.","{ ""64"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 64, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" } }","{ ""61"": { ""book_image.id"": 61, ""book_image.path"": ""/9e/dc/2e/ae/9edc2eaeb01fecc5b4602c56330e0b2beb64f0fa.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//9e/dc/2e/ae/9edc2eaeb01fecc5b4602c56330e0b2beb64f0fa.jpg"" } }" 65,"2017-04-05 22:38:05","Small Wonder","Barbara Kingsolver","Faber & Faber 2011; US$ 15.49",,"In this collection of essays, the author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter.Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too. In the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on - sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive - Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.","Faber & Faber","September 2011",288,9780571283279,"US$ 15.49",,"{ ""65"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 65, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" } }","{ ""62"": { ""book_image.id"": 62, ""book_image.path"": ""/20/9a/6f/06/209a6f0624f8f8f130d28e215a2173a9c765caa6.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//20/9a/6f/06/209a6f0624f8f8f130d28e215a2173a9c765caa6.jpg"" } }" 66,"2017-04-06 02:25:12","The Best American Short Stories 2014","Jennifer Egan; Heidi Pitlor(ed.)","Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014; US$ 11.99",,"“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).","Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","October 2014",384,9780547819242,"US$ 11.98",,"{ ""66"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 66, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" }, ""875"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 875, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" } }","{ ""63"": { ""book_image.id"": 63, ""book_image.path"": ""/f1/ff/47/5c/f1ff475cc05933f4b9bb59367b864993ea7f388f.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//f1/ff/47/5c/f1ff475cc05933f4b9bb59367b864993ea7f388f.jpg"" } }" 67,"2017-04-05 22:38:16","The Feel of Steel","Helen Garner","Pan Macmillan Australia 2007; US$ 1.81",,"""Although I have been married three times, I have never been a bride. What - me, in a big white dress? In a veil? The closest I ever got to the fantasy was back in the eighties, when I used to admire the white gypsophila crowns that Susan Renouf wore to parties: I drew a curious satisfaction from their ethereal, circular, brow-pressing beauty. Twenty years later all that's left is the frisson I get from the coronet shape that salad leaves briefly take when I tip them out of the whizzer on to a tea towel.""Cities, friends, lost loves, Antarctica, the joy of being a grandmother, weddings, fencing... Such is the array of subjects in Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection. Some pieces were published in The Age, some are previously unpublished, but woven together they present as an evocative memoir, and offer a wonderfully personal portrait of an always unconventional talent.In word-perfect and often hilarious prose, Helen Garner reminds us of the human condition, in all its various guises.","Pan Macmillan Australia","November 2007",232,9781742625478,"US$ 1.81","Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942, and lives in Melbourne. Since her novel Monkey Grip appeared in 1977, she has published four more books of fiction and a great deal of journalism. Her recent books include the screen play for the movie The Last Days of Chez Nous, The First Stone, True Stories, Joe Cinque's Consolation and, forthcoming in 2008, The Gap in the Fence.","{ ""67"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 67, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" } }","{ ""64"": { ""book_image.id"": 64, ""book_image.path"": ""/0c/96/e2/8c/0c96e28cc9df755dd68299ac32e81a79245c4ae0.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//0c/96/e2/8c/0c96e28cc9df755dd68299ac32e81a79245c4ae0.jpg"" } }" 68,"2017-04-05 22:38:19","A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition","Norman Maclean","University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 12.00",,"Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of ""A River Runs through It"" that he is ""haunted by waters,"" so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, ""cats,"" or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, ""a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by."" A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, ""In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made.""","University of Chicago Press","August 2009",241,9780226500775,"US$ 12.00","Norman Maclean (1902-1990), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in the Western Rocky Mountains of Montana and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forestry Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.","{ ""68"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 68, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" }, ""1049"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1049, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" } }","{ ""65"": { ""book_image.id"": 65, ""book_image.path"": ""/0e/3f/ce/01/0e3fce01c445fbc3a3009543fedd2b1b079bb450.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//0e/3f/ce/01/0e3fce01c445fbc3a3009543fedd2b1b079bb450.jpg"" } }" 69,"2017-04-06 02:25:31","The Odyssey","Robert Fitzgerald(trans.) ; Homer; D. S. Carne-Ross(ill.)","Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998; US$ 7.00","The Fitzgerald Translation","Robert Fitzgerald's is the best and best-loved modern translation of The Odyssey, and the only one admired in its own right as a great poem in English. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.","Farrar, Straus and Giroux","November 1998",510,9781466801479,"US$ 7.00","Robert Fitzgerald's versions of the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Oedipus cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1988, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.","{ ""69"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 69, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" }, ""175"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 175, ""category_1.id"": 18, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-28 22:59:50"", ""category_1.title"": ""Poetry"" } }","{ ""66"": { ""book_image.id"": 66, ""book_image.path"": ""/b4/04/32/96/b4043296eeefafeddb4dcffa8c98a633da87521c.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//b4/04/32/96/b4043296eeefafeddb4dcffa8c98a633da87521c.jpg"" } }" 70,"2017-04-05 22:38:29","Love Letters of Great Men and Women","Ursula Doyle (Ed.)","Pan Macmillan 2010; US$ 6.26",,"From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a ‘delicious poison’ (William Congreve); for others, ‘a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music’ (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one’s heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert). But what about the other side of the story? What of the secret hopes and lives of some of the greatest women in history? Taken together, these love letters show that perhaps little has changed over the last 2,000 years. Passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all represented here – as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most. Includes letters by: Anne Boleyn * Beethoven * Edith Wharton * Mark Twain * Mary Wordsworth * Nell Gwyn (mistress of Charles II) * Elizabeth Barrett Browning * GK Chesterton * Queen Victoria * Napoleon Bonaparte * The Empress Josephine * Mary Wollstonecraft * Amadeus Mozart * Katherine Mansfield Praise for Love Letters of Great Men: 'The most romantic book ever' Daily Mail 'Inspired by the Sex and the City movie... Famous men caught with pen in hand and heart in mouth' The Times","Pan Macmillan","January 2010",300,9780330520201,"US$ 6.26","Ursula Doyle was born in 1967. She lives in London.","{ ""70"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 70, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" }, ""208"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 208, ""category_1.id"": 21, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-02 05:47:10"", ""category_1.title"": ""Reference"" } }","{ ""67"": { ""book_image.id"": 67, ""book_image.path"": ""/08/7e/d4/c1/087ed4c13870d82cda364b5647ff036f74014d7e.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//08/7e/d4/c1/087ed4c13870d82cda364b5647ff036f74014d7e.jpg"" } }" 71,"2017-04-06 02:25:50","Homer: Iliad Book VI","Barbara Graziosi(ed.) ; Johannes Haubold(ed.)","Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 28.00",,"The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek. Book 6 describes how Glaukos and Diomedes, though fighting on opposite sides, recognise an ancient bond of hospitality and exchange gifts on the battlefield. It then follows Hector as he enters the city of Troy and meets the most important people in his life: his mother, Helen and Paris, and finally his wife and baby son. It is above all through the loving and fraught encounter between Hector and Andromache that Homer exposes the horror of war. This edition is suitable for undergraduates at all levels, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer.","Cambridge University Press","November 2010",,9781316142219,"US$ 28.00",,"{ ""71"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 71, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" } }","{ ""68"": { ""book_image.id"": 68, ""book_image.path"": ""/18/38/73/51/1838735149b3175e9b5138dfd59f74852621d3ed.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//18/38/73/51/1838735149b3175e9b5138dfd59f74852621d3ed.jpg"" } }" 72,"2017-04-05 22:38:39","The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction","Lex Williford(ed.) ; Michael Martone","Touchstone 2012; US$ 21.00","50 North American Stories Since 1970","Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.",Touchstone,"November 2012",672,9781476727363,"US$ 21.00",,"{ ""72"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 72, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""1282"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1282, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" }, ""288653"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 288653, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" } }","{ ""69"": { ""book_image.id"": 69, ""book_image.path"": ""/70/50/d9/b3/7050d9b3928c9df23c659aacc383af2abc1613f8.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//70/50/d9/b3/7050d9b3928c9df23c659aacc383af2abc1613f8.jpg"" } }" 73,"2017-04-05 22:38:42","Ancient Greek Scholarship","Eleanor Dickey","Oxford University Press 2007; US$ 27.99","A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatiacl Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period","Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the manuscript tradition. Now, for the first time, there is an introduction to such scholarship that will enable students and scholars unfamiliar with this material to use it in their work. Ancient Greek Scholarship includes detailed discussion of the individual ancient authors on whose works scholia, commentaries, or single-author lexica exist, together with explanations of the probable sources of that scholarship and the ways it is now used, as well as descriptions of extant grammatical works and general lexica. These discussions, and the annotated bibliography of more than 1200 works, also include evaluations of the different texts of each work and of a variety of electronic resources.This book not only introduces readers to ancient scholarship, but also teaches them how to read it. Here readers will find a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the language, a glossary of over 1500 grammatical terms, and a set of more than 200 passages for translation, each accompanied by commentary. The commentaries offer enough help to enable undergraduates with as little as two years of Greek to translate most passages with confidence; in addition, readers are given aids to handling the ancient numerical systems, understanding the references found in works of ancient scholarship, and using an apparatus criticus (including an extensive key to the abbreviations used in an apparatus). Half the passages are accompanied by a key, so that the book is equally suitable for those studying on their own and for classes with graded homework.","Oxford University Press","April 2007",368,9780199886050,"US$ 27.99","Eleanor Dickey is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University.","{ ""73"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 73, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""1289"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1289, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" }, ""288654"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 288654, ""category_1.id"": 7, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 04:26:33"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Collections"" } }","{ ""70"": { ""book_image.id"": 70, ""book_image.path"": ""/6c/93/35/f2/6c9335f2803acbe3acc2a3a213e6f8980700ed31.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//6c/93/35/f2/6c9335f2803acbe3acc2a3a213e6f8980700ed31.jpg"" } }" 74,"2017-04-05 22:38:43","The Great Gatsby","F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy(ed.)","OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 7.99",,"""He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was . . .""The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby's lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island's gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named `the Jazz Age'. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his `unutterable visions' - seemed to be incarnated in herkiss.A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion. This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel, its critical reception and its significance for future generations.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","OUP Oxford","March 1998",208,9780191647253,"US$ 7.99","Ruth Prigozy is Professor and former Chair of English at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. She has edited Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and is co-editor of the F.Scott Fitzgerald Newsletter.","{ ""74"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 74, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""177"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 177, ""category_1.id"": 18, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-28 22:59:50"", ""category_1.title"": ""Poetry"" }, ""1326"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1326, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" } }","{ ""71"": { ""book_image.id"": 71, ""book_image.path"": ""/b4/88/83/be/b48883be59c26a1c79cc0a8ae9b923368538f34e.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//b4/88/83/be/b48883be59c26a1c79cc0a8ae9b923368538f34e.jpg"" } }" 75,"2017-04-05 22:38:50","Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review","Andrew Booth; Diana Papaioannou; Anthea Sutton","SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 41.00",,"Reviewing the literature is an essential part of every research project. This book takes you step-by-step through the process of approaching your literature review systematically, applying systematic principles to a wide range of literature review types. Through numerous examples, case studies and exercises, the book covers often neglected areas of literature review such as concept analysis, scoping and mapping. The book includes practical tools for supporting the various stages of the review process, including;- managing your literature review- searching the literature- assessing the quality of the literature- synthesising qualitative and/or quantitative data- writing up and presenting dataSystematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review is essential reading for any student or researcher looking to approach their literature review in a systematic way.","SAGE Publications","December 2011",288,9781446289440,"US$ 41.00",,"{ ""75"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 75, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""768061"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 768061, ""category_1.id"": 21, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-02 05:47:10"", ""category_1.title"": ""Reference"" }, ""961964"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 961964, ""category_1.id"": 26, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-04 09:42:34"", ""category_1.title"": ""Social Science"" } }","{ ""72"": { ""book_image.id"": 72, ""book_image.path"": ""/d9/1b/da/85/d91bda85d093b26cdd9f0ddd8cc92eb72752596c.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//d9/1b/da/85/d91bda85d093b26cdd9f0ddd8cc92eb72752596c.jpg"" } }" 76,"2017-04-05 22:39:01",Bel-Ami,"Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon(trans.) ; Robert Lethbridge(ed.)","OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 8.99",,"'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul SartreMaupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporaryjournalism.Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","OUP Oxford","May 2001",368,9780191605871,"US$ 8.99","Margaret Mauldon has previously translated Zola, L'Assommoir, Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma, Huysmans, Against Nature (winner of the 1999 Scott Moncrieff prize) and Constant, Adolphe for OWCRobert Lethbridge has edited Zola's L'Assommoir and La Debacle for OWC and has written several books on Maupassant and Zola","{ ""76"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 76, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""1348"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1348, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" } }","{ ""73"": { ""book_image.id"": 73, ""book_image.path"": ""/4d/b0/8c/70/4db08c70c10041ca78af3edd3d69e9d7482ffbaa.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//4d/b0/8c/70/4db08c70c10041ca78af3edd3d69e9d7482ffbaa.jpg"" } }" 77,"2017-04-05 22:39:02","Essays In Love","Alain de Botton","Pan Macmillan 2014; US$ 6.25","Picador Classic","With an introduction by Sheila HetiA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story - from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with startling clarity, as de Botton explores emotions often felt but rarely understood.With the verve of a novelist and the insight of a philosopher, Alain de Botton uncovers the mysteries of the human heart. Essays In Love is an iconic book - one that should be read by anyone who has ever fallen in love.","Pan Macmillan","December 2014",224,9781447275336,"US$ 6.26","Alain de Botton is the author of a number of books that try to throw light on the big challenges of our lives. His books have been sold in thirty-five countries and many have been international bestsellers, including How Proust Can Change Your Life, Essays in Love and The Art of Travel. He is the founder of two social enterprises, the first promoting architecture, Living Architecture (www.living-architecture.co.uk), which gets top architects to build holiday homes for rental by everyone. The second enterprise is The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com).","{ ""77"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 77, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""1350"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 1350, ""category_1.id"": 1, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-26 07:03:11"", ""category_1.title"": ""General Fiction"" } }","{ ""74"": { ""book_image.id"": 74, ""book_image.path"": ""/db/6e/e8/d0/db6ee8d0ca3a173a3d175e639fad155df51a156e.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//db/6e/e8/d0/db6ee8d0ca3a173a3d175e639fad155df51a156e.jpg"" } }" 78,"2017-04-06 02:26:28","Euripides: Medea","Euripides; Donald J. Mastronarde(ed.)","Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00",,"This up-to-date edition makes Euripides' most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to more advanced students. The introduction analyzes Medea as a revenge-plot, evaluates the strands of motivation that lead to her tragic insistence on killing her own children, and assesses the potential sympathy of a Greek audience for a character triply marked as other (barbarian, witch, woman). A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus. The commentary provides morphological and syntactic help for inexperienced students and more advanced observations on vocabulary, rhetoric, dramatic techniques, stage action, and details of interpretation, from the famous debate of Medea and Jason to the 'unmotivated' entrance of Aegeus and the controversial monologue of Medea.","Cambridge University Press","August 2002",,9781139930680,"US$ 32.00",,"{ ""78"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 78, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" } }","{ ""75"": { ""book_image.id"": 75, ""book_image.path"": ""/0d/9b/7e/38/0d9b7e3888f073f7e3a19de83f891fb3049c5446.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//0d/9b/7e/38/0d9b7e3888f073f7e3a19de83f891fb3049c5446.jpg"" } }" 79,"2017-04-06 02:26:30","The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio","Guyda Armstrong(ed.) ; Rhiannon Daniels(ed.) ; Stephen J. Milner(ed.)","Cambridge University Press 2015; US$ 24.00",,"Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural contexts, the Companion introduces a wide range of his texts, paying close attention to his formal innovations, elaborate voicing strategies, and the tensions deriving from his position as a medieval author who places women at the centre of his work. Four chapters are dedicated to different aspects of his masterpiece, the Decameron, while particular attention is paid to the material forms of his works: from his own textual strategies as the shaper of his own and others' literary legacies, to his subsequent editorial history, and translation into other languages and media.","Cambridge University Press","June 2015",,9781316287590,"US$ 24.00",,"{ ""79"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 79, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""179"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 179, ""category_1.id"": 18, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-28 22:59:50"", ""category_1.title"": ""Poetry"" } }","{ ""76"": { ""book_image.id"": 76, ""book_image.path"": ""/c1/90/36/f5/c19036f557283f51625653d6df021833da54df0f.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//c1/90/36/f5/c19036f557283f51625653d6df021833da54df0f.jpg"" } }" 80,"2017-04-06 02:26:36","The Secret Life of the American Musical","Jack Viertel","Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016; US$ 8.00","How Broadway Shows Are Built","A New York Times BestsellerFor almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next—by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion—from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward.Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you’ve been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit.","Farrar, Straus and Giroux","March 2016",,9780374711252,"US$ 8.00","Jack Viertel is the senior vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters. He has been involved in dozens of productions presented by Jujamcyn since 1987, including multiple Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winners, from City of Angels to Angels in America. He has also helped shepherd six of August Wilson’s plays to Broadway. He is the artistic director of New York City Center’s acclaimed Encores! series, which presents three musical productions every season. In that capacity he has overseen fifty shows, for some of which he adapted the scripts. He conceived the long-running Smokey Joe’s Cafe and the critically acclaimed After Midnight and has been a creative consultant on many shows, including Hairspray, AChristmas Story, and Dear Evan Hansen. He was the Mark Taper Forum’s dramaturg and the drama criticand arts editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and he has spent a decade teaching musical theaterat the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.","{ ""80"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 80, ""category_1.id"": 8, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 12:34:55"", ""category_1.title"": ""Literary Criticism"" }, ""115"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 115, ""category_1.id"": 12, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-28 09:02:02"", ""category_1.title"": ""Music"" }, ""468560"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 468560, ""category_1.id"": 14, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-28 14:16:31"", ""category_1.title"": ""Performing Arts"" } }","{ ""77"": { ""book_image.id"": 77, ""book_image.path"": ""/bb/3a/6c/51/bb3a6c51c6f537faf323e5726ea558facb09494a.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//bb/3a/6c/51/bb3a6c51c6f537faf323e5726ea558facb09494a.jpg"" } }" 81,"2017-04-06 02:26:46","Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics","Andy Field","SAGE Publications 2013; US$ 70.00",,"Lecturers/instructors - request a free digital inspection copy hereWith a little help from his weird band of characters the Fourth Edition of the award-winning book continues, with its unique blend of humour and collection of bizarre examples, to bring statistics - from first principles to advanced concepts - well and truly to life using IBM SPSS Statistics.Lecturers: with WebAssign® you can manage and monitor your students' progress quickly and easily online or give them more opportunities to practise! Ideal for short courses, choose to use WebAssign® alongside the Fourth Edition of Andy Field's textbook to quickly set up courses and schedule assignments (using the  2159 questions available) and track individual performance so you can spot in an instant where more instruction or practice is needed. If not using for fomal assessment, WebAssign® still lets you set questions for your students to practise over and over again. They get instant feedback and also links to the relevant chapter or section in the integral ebook to help them work out the correct solution. For more information on how to integrate WebAssign® into a forthcoming course or to arrange a class test please contact your local SAGE representative for more details. (Students please note: access to WebAssign® is dependent not only on the purchase of a student access code (ISBN: 9781446273043) but also a username, institution code and password supplied by your course leader/instructor).SAGE MobileStudy - study where and when you likeScan any QR code within the book to access revision material on a smartphone or tablet such as Cramming Sam's Study tips, flashcard glossaries, interactive multiple choice questionnaires and more. Click here to take a look (if you're accessing the site from a desktop you'll be taken to the Companion Website instead; look out for the MobileStudy icon to show you which pages are also available on the MobileStudy site). See how Andy's book is changing the landscape for textbooks through the use of technology!Support materials for a wide range of disciplinesEducation and Sport Sciences lecturer support materials with enhanced ones for Psychology, Business and Management and the Health Sciences on the enhanced Companion Website make the book even more relevant to a wider range of subjects across the social sciences and where statistics is taught to a cross-disciplinary audience. Other major new updates include: Now fully compatible with recent IBM SPSS Statistics releases. Two new characters! Statistical cult leader Oditi provides students with access to video clips via his Lantern to help further understanding of statistical/SPSS concepts, while Confusius helps students to make better sense of statistical terms. The enhanced Companion Website offers plenty of lecturer and student material to use in conjunction with the textbook. These include PowerPoints and subject-specific testbanks for lecturers as well as answers to the Smart Alex tasks at the end of the each chapter; datafiles for testing problems in SPSS; flashcards of key concepts; self-assessment multiple-choice questions; and online videos of key statistical and SPSS procedures discussed in the textbook for students.Video Links Go behind the scenes of the Fourth Edition, and find out about the man behind the book Watch Andy introduce SAGE MobileStudy Ask Andy Anything: Teaching stats... and Robbie Williams' head Ask Andy Anything: Gibson or Fender Ask Andy Anything: The one part of the book Andy hated writing Available with Perusall—an eBook that makes it easier to prepare for class","SAGE Publications","February 2013",856,9781446274583,"US$ 70.00",,"{ ""81"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 81, ""category_1.id"": 9, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 18:01:44"", ""category_1.title"": ""Mathematics"" }, ""201"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 201, ""category_1.id"": 21, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-02 05:47:10"", ""category_1.title"": ""Reference"" }, ""252"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 252, ""category_1.id"": 26, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-04 09:42:34"", ""category_1.title"": ""Social Science"" } }","{ ""78"": { ""book_image.id"": 78, ""book_image.path"": ""/88/01/99/d2/880199d22ae4bd5a016f24017cfd1ad0818ccd21.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//88/01/99/d2/880199d22ae4bd5a016f24017cfd1ad0818ccd21.jpg"" } }" 82,"2017-04-06 02:26:48","Genome-Scale Algorithm Design","Veli Mäkinen; Djamal Belazzougui; Fabio Cunial; Alexandru I. Tomescu","Cambridge University Press 2015; US$ 52.00","Biological Sequence Analysis in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing","High-throughput sequencing has revolutionised the field of biological sequence analysis. Its application has enabled researchers to address important biological questions, often for the first time. This book provides an integrated presentation of the fundamental algorithms and data structures that power modern sequence analysis workflows. The topics covered range from the foundations of biological sequence analysis (alignments and hidden Markov models), to classical index structures (k-mer indexes, suffix arrays and suffix trees), Burrows–Wheeler indexes, graph algorithms and a number of advanced omics applications. The chapters feature numerous examples, algorithm visualisations, exercises and problems, each chosen to reflect the steps of large-scale sequencing projects, including read alignment, variant calling, haplotyping, fragment assembly, alignment-free genome comparison, transcript prediction and analysis of metagenomic samples. Each biological problem is accompanied by precise formulations, providing graduate students and researchers in bioinformatics and computer science with a powerful toolkit for the emerging applications of high-throughput sequencing.","Cambridge University Press","May 2015",,9781316342893,"US$ 52.00",,"{ ""82"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 82, ""category_1.id"": 9, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 18:01:44"", ""category_1.title"": ""Mathematics"" }, ""223"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 223, ""category_1.id"": 23, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-03 09:20:21"", ""category_1.title"": ""Science"" } }","{ ""79"": { ""book_image.id"": 79, ""book_image.path"": ""/f4/ba/41/c1/f4ba41c13a9284cccd122cfee8f50ed79237347a.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//f4/ba/41/c1/f4ba41c13a9284cccd122cfee8f50ed79237347a.jpg"" } }" 83,"2017-04-06 02:26:53","Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended Coursebook","Karen Morrison; Nick Hamshaw","Cambridge University Press 2015; US$ 27.00",,"Endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations, this new series offers all the resources you will need to completely cover the Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580) syllabus. A Coursebook, two Practice Books and a Teacher's Resource provide thorough explanation and ample practice opportunity to help students to understand their IGCSE maths course and support teachers in guiding them. Suitable for all classrooms, whether core and extended students are learning together or separately, these resources will help students to achieve their potential in maths.","Cambridge University Press","January 2015",890,9781139547710,"US$ 27.00",,"{ ""83"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 83, ""category_1.id"": 9, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-03-27 18:01:44"", ""category_1.title"": ""Mathematics"" }, ""548"": { ""category_1_x_book.id"": 548, ""category_1.id"": 28, ""category_1.ts"": ""2017-04-04 14:02:35"", ""category_1.title"": ""Study Aids"" } }","{ ""80"": { ""book_image.id"": 80, ""book_image.path"": ""/fe/62/ff/5d/fe62ff5da89eceeb4b8fd09aa157baf7508e0cc9.jpg"", ""book_image._image"": ""https://songer.datasn.com/data/api/v1/u_15ff9ad43f41a2ff2f41/book_14/main/book_image//fe/62/ff/5d/fe62ff5da89eceeb4b8fd09aa157baf7508e0cc9.jpg"" } }"