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  • Boss Cupid

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.He dreams at the center of a closed system,Like the prison system, or a system of love,Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from "A System: PCP, or Angel Dust"Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man with Night Sweats

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    Series series FSG Poetry
    With an illuminating new introduction by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn’s extraordinary memorial to love, life, and death in the time of the AIDS crisis.The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive.Thom Gunn’s collection is one of the few works of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gunn Sights

    Taking Aim on Selling in the High-Stakes Industry of International Aerospace

    by Tom Gunn ...
    In 1975, Tom Gunn had a life-altering career change when he went from an eight-year stint as staff lawyer with the U. S. Senate to a job in aerospace sales and marketing at McDonnell Douglas. Gunn knew a lot about military appropriations and classified developments; he knew almost nothing about marketing, which may have been the most important attribute he brought to the job. Over the next 22 ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • New Selected Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poetThom Gunn has been described as "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" ( Times Literary Supplement). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Sense of Movement

    by Thom Gunn ...
    The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

    Edited by Simon Gunn, Tom Hulme ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe’s cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of urban politics in early modern and modern Europe. At the same time, it guides the reader through the variety of ways in which power and governance ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Work Without Boundaries

    Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life

    by Michael Allvin, Gunnar Aronsson, Gunn Johansson, Ulf Lundberg, Tom Hagström ...
    Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories, concepts, data and research on new work organizations and the concept of ‘work without boundaries’.Explores a concept of work that is not restricted by traditional organizational rules like regular office hours, a single workplace, fixed procedures and limited ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

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    Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He visited Spain during the Civil War, in 1937, where he assisted the Republican ... Read more

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  • An Ordinary Dog

    by Gregory Woods ...
    Both intimate and detached, this poetry compilation delves into the politics and aesthetics of desire—sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Reflecting upon the comedy of human needs and the vanity of human wishes, these poems consider times of crisis when history is lived and reinvented, myth degenerates into faith, and reason falters. On this journey in which chance always ... Read more

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    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

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    by John Newhouse ...
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  • The Four Quartets

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which ... Read more

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