Lawrence: 4086 books
Lefty
An American Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
**“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine **
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the...
by Lawrence Rainey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed...
"I'm Not a Racist, But . . ."
The Moral Quandary of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of...
by Brother Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Three hundred years ago, an uneducated lay cook in a French monastery discovered how to enjoy a profound awareness of God moment by moment, even in the midst of busyness and distraction. In The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence describes his realizations in a series of conversations and...
Adventures in Solitude
What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious...
by T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Rainey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
One of the twentieth century’s most powerful-and controversial-works, The Waste Land was published in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was...
Sense and Nonsensibility
Lampoons of Learning and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture.
At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility...
Hunters in the Dark
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense
Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As...
The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself
Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself....
How to Travel without Seeing
Dispatches from the New Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
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A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman concludes that...
A Miracle, a Universe
Settling Accounts with Torturers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime’s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible...
Bildungsromans Anthology: A Selection Of Classic Coming-Of-Age Stories (Golden Deer Classics)
Emma, The Red And The Black, Jane Eyre, Martin Eden...
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
A Bildungsroman (German expression meaning: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change...
You Can Fight For Your Life
Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1980
The reason why clinical science has not solved the riddle of cancer may not lie totally within the realm of the laboratory. It may lie in part in the mind and emotions of the patient.
After two decades of research and psychotherapeutic work with cancer patients, Lawrence LeShan offers new evidence...
by D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Both the works portray the genius of Lawrence. Through brilliant delineation of characters he has portrayed profound emotions. In different styles he presents how the intense feelings lead to disaster if they are not properly expressed. Writer's brilliant view of life is presented through these amazing narratives.