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Seeing Stars
Simon ArmitageSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.
The Death of King Arthur
Simon ArmitageSimon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed.
The Poetry of Birds
Simon ArmitageIn this wonderful anthology poet Simon Armitage and birdwatching enthusiast Tim Dee gather together the best of the past and the present, including those famous poems but also many overlooked gems.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fixed Format Layout
Simon Armitage. . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most enthralling, dramatic and beloved poems in the English tradition. Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem has found its perfect modern translator.
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
Merle MillerThe groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought ...
The Dead Sea Poems
Simon ArmitageSimon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'.
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights ...
Merle GoldmanCorrecting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their ...
From the hills of dream, mountain songs and island runes, by ...
William SharpThe White Merle. JONG, long ago, a white merle flew out of Eden. Its song has been in the world ever since, but few there are who have seen the flash of its white wings through the green-gloom of the living wood — the sun-splashed, ...
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Ted KerasoteUsing the latest in wolf research and exploring issues of animal consciousness and leadership and the origins of the human-dog relationship, Ted Kerasote takes us on the journey he and Merle shared.
The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms
Merle GoldmanThe essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle ...
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
PreviewMerle Goldman, Professor of History Emerita Boston University and Associate of the John K Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Harvard University Merle Goldman, Edward Gu. of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is the author of ...
Merle the Patio Squirrel and the Troublesome Puppy
Lynne Jones-WeiserMerle the Patio Squirrel and the Troublesome PuppyThe tranquility of the patio is shattered by a rambunctious puppy.
Handbook of Organizational Performance: Behavior Analysis ...
C. Merle JohnsonBehavior Analysis and Management C. Merle Johnson, William K. Redmon, Thomas C. Mawhinney. THE HA WORTH PRESS Organizational Behavior Analysis and Management Thomas C. Mawhinney Senior Editor Handbook of ...
Kid
Simon ArmitageKid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years.
The Not Dead
Simon Armitage'The Not Dead' is a short collection of poems originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name, shown in the winter of 2007.
Book of Matches
Simon Armitage' Independent on Sunday 'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.
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