The Writer in the Garden
 Show me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about ... [... more]
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Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape ...
The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects a number of ... [... more]
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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told ... [... more]
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's ... [... more]
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Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing ...
This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the ... [... more]
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Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
Henry David Thoreau was 44 years old when he died of tuberculosis in the early spring of 1862. He had acquired a measure of notoriety in his lifetime largely for his fervent support of abolitionism and his refusal to pay taxes to support the American war ... [... more]
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word ...
'Explores some of the profound changes in our thought processes, personality and social structures which are the result ... of the development of speech, writing and print.' - Robert Giddings, Tribune -- Book Description [... more]
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The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics
Reflections on THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS J. B. Jackson, the founder and longtime editor of the journal LANDSCAPE, helped readers appreciate, and understand, the modern American landscape--parks and cemeteries, to be sure, but also commercial strips and ... [... more]
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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
"A book that critics and researchers in the field cannot easily ignore." -- Svenska Dagbladet [... more]
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Speaking of Books: The Best Things Ever Said About Books ...
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours." -- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with ... [... more]
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The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of ...
There are plenty of entertaining stories written about the public mishaps and accomplishments of dogs; they are social animals and can play highly public roles in everything from television sitcoms to real-life emergency situations. The cat, as feline ... [... more]
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Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art
Japanese gardens are fascinating expressions of landscape art. Their beauty speaks to everyone. What is behind this beauty? Why do the gardens of Japan speak to us so strongly? This volume delves into questions of beauty and ideas of nature expressed in ... [... more]
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