This brilliant collection spans the years from the Middle Ages to the modern day to bring you a unique selection of the greatest poetry of all time. Arranged around major themes such as love and hate, war and peace, liberty and oppression, alienation and city life, The Premier Book of Major Poets is an invaluable reference work as well as a source of great pleasure.

Among the poets included are
-- Matthew Arnold
-- W. H. Auden
-- William Blake
-- Gwendolyn Brooks
-- Robert Browning
-- Geoffrey Chaucer
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridgee
-- e. e. cumming
-- Emily Dickinson
-- John Donne
-- T. S. Eliot
-- Mari Evans
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
-- Robert Frost
-- Allen Ginsberg
-- Nikki Giovanni
-- Robert Graves
-- Thomas Hardy
-- Langston Hughes
-- David Ignatow
-- Randall Jarrell
-- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
-- John Keats
-- Rudyard Kipling
-- Denise Levertov
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
-- Robert Lowell
-- Archibald MacLeish
-- Andrew Marvell
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
-- John Milton
-- Marianne Moore
-- Howard Nemerov
-- Sylvia Plath
-- Ezra Pound
-- Theodore Roethke
-- William Shakespeare
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
-- Stephen Spender
-- Wallace Stevens
-- Alfred Tennyson
-- Dylan Thomas
-- Margaret Walker
-- Walt Whitman
-- William Wordsworth
-- William Butler Yeats

Finding out that a child, spouse, relative or friend is homosexual can be an unwelcome surprise. You're hit with a complex combination of emotions - grief, shame, fear, guilt. You are flooded with questions ranging from why to what's next. You wonder what a biblical response would be. At the same time, someone you care about deeply may be awaiting your response. What should you say?
Someone I Love Is Gay was created out of Anita Worthen's struggle over these issues with her son and her work with New Hope Ministries in San Rafael, California, and Bob Davies's personal experience and professional experience with Exodus International in Seattle, Washington. Drawing also on the experiences of others, they will help you to handle your feelings while responding appropriately to your loved one.

'An unusual alphabet book incorporates reinforcement of individual letters into a dazzling display of floral painting as Lobel links girls' names, flowers, and verbs in a chain of floral gifts.'--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

I padri della chiesa, profondamente radicati nella Scrittura, ci hanno lasciato in eredità un ricco tesoro non solo di testi ma anche di modi, forme, gesti di preghiera . Oggi, soprattutto il cristianesimo occidentale, ha bisogno di riscoprire l'intima unione che deve esistere - nella preghiera come in ogni aspetto della vita cristiana - tra teoria e prassi, tra contemplazione e esercizio pratico. A pregare si impara pregando, e tutto il nostro essere è chiamato a partecipare a quest'opera: la mente, il cuore, ma anche il corpo, lo sguardo, i sensi. L'autore - eremita di grande discernimento spirituale, profondo conoscitore di Evagrio e dei padri del deserto, ma soprattutto uomo di intensa preghiera - ripercorre con sapiente coerenza questa compenetrazione tra cị che si crede e cị che si esprime nella pratica della preghiera: una riscoperta affascinante del tesoro prezioso contenuto nei vasi di argilla dei nostri corpi.

Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings.

An evaluation of prison reform strategies conducted by Latina and Latino prisoners between 1970 and 1987 in the Green Haven and Bedford Hills Correctional Facilities. Dfaz-Cotto (sociology, women's studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, State U. of New York, Binghamton) compiles primary and secondary source research including interviews with prisoners, attorneys, and community activists in her consideration of gender and ethnicity within the American penal system. Includes a discussion of the Attica Prison rebellion, and appendices of criminal justice statistics, court cases, the Folsom Prisoner Manifesto, and Attica Prisoner Demands. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Zionism, more than any other social and political movement in the modern era, has completely and fundamentally altered the self-image of the Jewish people and its relations with the non- Jewish world. As the dominant expression of Jewish nationalism, Zionism revolutionized the very concept of Jewish peoplehood, taking upon itself the transformation of the Jewish people from a minority into a majority, and from a diaspora community into a territorial one.

Bringing together for the first time the work of the most distinguished historians of Zionism and the Yishuv (pre-state Israeli society), many never before translated into English, this volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the history of Zionism. The contributions are diverse, examining such topics as the ideological development of the Jewish nationalist movement, Zionist trends in the Land of Israel, and relations between Jews, Arabs, and the British in Palestine. Contributors include: Jacob Katz, Shmuel Almog, Yosef Salmon, David Vital, Steven J. Zipperstein, Michael Heymann, Jonathan Frankel, George L. Berlin, Israel Oppenheim, Gershon Shaked, Joseph Heller, Hagit Lavsky, and Bernard Wasserstein.

In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.

But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.

REA's MAXnotes for Dante's The Divine Comedy I: Inferno

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.

MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has no part.

From the staid conventionality of Old New York to the forced conviviality of the French Riviera, from the drawing room of Gus Trenor's Bellomont to the dreary resort of a downtown boardinghouse, Wharton created her 'first full-scale survey,' as her biographer R.W.B. Lewis put it, 'of the comédie humaine, American style.' A brilliantly satiric yet sensitive exploration of manners and morality, The House of Mirth marked Wharton's transformation from an amateur into a professional writer and figures among her most important works.

Practical advice on all aspects of training, health and diet for active women.