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Leda Sanford

Pure Moxie: A Memoir

Editura: iUniverse.com

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The impetuous Leda Sanford abandoned secure suburbia in the 1960s in exchange for a life on the edge as a top magazine editor and publisher in the competitive and male-dominated Manhattan publishing world. Unorthodox entrepreneurs hired Leda at a time when women rarely occupied corner offices. Leda's memoir, Pure Moxie, recreates a world of jet-setting opulence-private planes, five-star hotels, and a state dinner at the White House-plus a headline-making affair. Leda became the first female publisher of American Home, a major U.S. magazine with a circulation of more than one million. She focused on the emerging liberated woman's demanding lifestyle and challenged the traditional formula of women's magazines. From her American Home launch pad, Leda pushed the industry's standards as she directed the creation and reinvention of magazines that included Chief Executive, Attenzione, Modern Maturity, and Get Up and Go! In the early 1990s, Leda shifted focus to promoting a new attitude toward aging, emphasizing that it's never too late to explore new horizons and enrich one's quality of life. With wit and candor, Pure Moxie provides a unique glimpse into Leda's career and offers ...

William Butler Yeats

The Tower: A Facsimile Edition

Editura: Scribner Book Company

Anul aparitiei: 2003

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a bestseller. Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout, but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal first edition as it reached its earliest audience in 1928, adding an introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. Written between 1912 and 1927, these poems ("Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children" among them) are today considered some of the best and most famous in the entire Yeats canon. As Virginia Woolf declared in her unsigned review of this collection, "Mr. Yeats has never written more exactly and more passionately."

Peter Straub

Poe's Children: The New Horror

Editura: Anchor Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story--and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner--gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing. "Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book." --The Washington Post "[Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there." --Time Dan Chaon "The Bees" Elizabeth Hand "Cleopatra Brimstone" Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem "The Man on the Ceiling" M. John Harrison "The Great God Plan" Ramsey Campbell "The Voice of the Beach" Brian Evenson "Body" Kelly Link "Louise's Ghost" Jonathan Carroll "The Sadness of Detail" M. Rickert "Leda" Thomas Tessier "In Praise of Folly"David J. Schow "Plot Twist" Glen Hirshberg "The Two Sams" Thomas Ligotti "Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story" Benjamin Percy "Unearthed" Bradford Morrow "Gardener of Heart" Peter Straub "Little Red's Tango" Stephen King "The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet" Joe Hill "20th Century Ghost" Ellen Klages "The Green Glass Sea" Tia V. Travis "The Kiss" Graham Joyce "Black Dust" Neil Gaiman "October in the Chair" John Crowley "Missolonghi 1824" Rosalind Palermo Stevenson "Insect ...

Vin Packer

Spring Fire

Editura: Cleis Press

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Her silky black hair. Her low-cut gown. Her sparkling sorority pin. It's autumn rush in the Tri Epsilon house, and the new pledge, Susan Mitchell--"Mitch" to her friends--trembles as the fastest girl on campus, the lovely Leda Taylor, crosses the room toward her for a dance. Will Leda corrupt Mitch? Or will the strong and silent Mitch draw the queen of Tri Ep into the forbidden world of Lesbian Love? Spring Fire was the first lesbian paperback novel and sold an amazing 1.5 million copies when it first appeared in 1952. It launched an entire genre of lesbian novels, as well as the writing career of Vin Packer, one of the pseudonyms of prolific author Marijane Meaker, whose acclaimed memoir, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, told the story of her own forbidden love. Now available after forty years out of print, Spring Fire is both a vital part of lesbian history and a steamy page-turner.

Leda Swann (Author)

Temptation

Editura: AVON BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2009

A deliciously steamy novel from one of the hottest stars in historical erotica, Leda Swann's Temptation continues the sensuous saga of the Clemens family, whose boudoir exploits were previously recounted in Mistress, Captive, and The Price of Desire. An author who continues to enjoy serious buzz on the popular Ellora's Cave, Swann once again takes romance to blistering new heights in this titillating tale of a proper miss whose "pen pal" correspondences with a sexy soldier get progressively more explicit, leading them both into shocking and scandalous Temptation.

Daniel Sperber (Editor)

Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2002

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.

Daniel Sperber (Editor)

Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.

Gerd Gigerenzer (Author)

Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational than it might otherwise appear. This work is extremely influential and has spawned an entire research program. This volume collects recent articles, looking at how people use "fast and frugal heuristics" to calculate probability and risk and make decisions. It includes the revised articles and newly written introduction that were first published in the hardcover edition. Its appeal is to a mixture of cognitive psychologists, philosophers, economists, and others who study decision making. "Gerd Gigerenzer has created new, pathbreaking ways of thinking about human rationality. His ideas build on one another and are best seen as part of a coherent whole that is when the nature of his arguments emerges most clearly."-- Leda Cosmides, University of California Santa Barbara

Elliott Sober (Editor)

Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2006

These essays by leading scientists and philosophers address conceptual issues that arise in the theory and practice of evolutionary biology. The third edition of this widely used anthology has been substantially revised and updated. Four new sections have been added: on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race as social construction or biological reality. Other sections treat fitness, units of selection, adaptationism, reductionism, essentialism, species, phylogenetic inference, cultural evolution, and evolutionary ethics.Each of the twelve sections contains two or three essays that develop different views of the subject at hand. For example, the section on evolutionary psychology offers one essay by two founders of the field and another that questions its main tenets. One sign that a discipline is growing is that there are open questions, with multiple answers still in competition; the essays in this volume demonstrate that evolutionary biology and the philosophy of evolutionary biology are living, growing disciplines.ContributorsRobin O. Andreasen, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Baum, John H. Beatty, David J. Buller, Leda ...

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor)

The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Philosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. This collaborative trend is especially strong in moral philosophy, and these volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field. The contributors to volume 1 discuss recent work on the evolution of moral beliefs, attitudes, and emotions. Each chapter includes an essay, comments on the essay by other scholars, and a reply by the author(s) of the original essay. Topics include a version of naturalism that avoids supposed fallacies, distinct neurocomputational systems for deontic reasoning, the evolutionary psychology of moral sentiments regarding incest, the ...

Denis Donoghue (Author)

The Practice of Reading

Editura: RICHARD HENDERSON

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts closely and imaginatively, as opposed to merely or mistakenly theorizing about them. He shows what serious reading entails by discussing texts that range from Shakespeare's plays to a novel by Cormac McCarthy. Donoghue begins with a personal chapter about his own early experiences reading literature while he was living and teaching in Ireland. He then deals with issues of theory, focusing on the validity of different literary theories, on words and their performances, on the impingement of oral and written conditions of reading, and on such current forces as technology and computers that impinge on the very idea of reading. Finally he examines certain works of literature: Shakespeare's Othello and Macbeth, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a passage from Wordsworth's The Prelude, a chapter of Joyce's Ulysses, Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and "Coole and Ballylee, 1931," and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian demonstrating what these texts have in common and how they must be differentiated through a ...

Catherine Landis (Author)

Harvest

Editura: GRIFFIN

Anul aparitiei: 2005

With a history of childhood loss and tragedy, Arliss Greene grows up to love his cattle more than his family. The memory of his family's displacement, due to TVA's construction of Norris Dam, stays with him as he struggles to make a living farming. His son Daniel tries to distance himself, but an inexplicable attachment to East Tennessee causes him to return to the hilltop where he grew up. He is shocked and disappointed when his wife, Leda, a city girl, ends up working with Arliss, farming the family land. Decisions are made, with repercussions that reverberate throughout their lives, the lives of their children, and the life of the farm from the 1930s to the beginning of the new century. Written with an unerring ear for the cadence and language of the South, Harvest is a powerful, character-driven novel. A story of family, marriage, farming, baseball, the power of memory, and what sustains people through loss, Harvest is a reckoning of sacrifices and a testament to human resilience. Catherine Landis, the author of the critically lauded BookSense 76 pick Some Days There's Pie, has written a compelling new novel with an assured Southern inflection and lovingly rendered ...

Stanley Wells (Editor)

Shakespeare Survey

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Contents: Reconstructing Shakespeare, or Harlotry in Bardolatry, Charles Marowitz; Playing Shakespeare, Peggy Ashcroft; Take Me to Your Leda, Terence Hawkes; Sign Theory and Shakespeare, Marvin Rosenberg; Time in Richard III, Guy Hamel; New Concepts of Staging A Midsummer Night's Dream, Maik Hamburger; Henry V as Working House of Ideology, Gunter Walch; Shakespeare and His Sources: Observations on the Critical History of Julius Caesar, Robert S. Miola; The Speculative Eye: Problematic Self-Knowledge in Julius Caesar, William O. Scott; Learning by Talking: Conversation in As You Like It, Martha Ronk Lifson; Measure for Measure: Mirror for Mirror, Ruth Nevo; Allegory and Irony in Othello, Antoinette B. Dauber; Cruelty, King Lear, and the South African Land Act of 1913, Martin Orkin; The Rationale of Current Bibliographical Methods: Printing House Studies, Computer-Aided Compositor Studies, and the Use of Statistical Studies, Manfred Draudt; Shakeapeare's Late Plays in Stratford, Ontario, Roger Warren; Shakespeare Performances in London, Manchester, and Stratford-upon-Avon 1985-86, Nicholas Shrimpton. Also, Critical Studies reviewed by R.S. White, Shakespeare's Life, Times, and Stage ...

Leda M. Cooks (Editor)

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/Placing Race

Editura: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and cross-racial dialogue.

Leda M. Cooks (Editor)

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/Placing Race

Editura: LEXINGTON BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and cross-racial dialogue.

Leda Ferrell Rex (Author)

George Rex Genealogy

Editura: HERITAGE BOOKS INC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

George Rex was born in England in 1750, and came to America in the early 1770s. He eventually settled in western Pennsylvania, where he and his wife raised 12 children. The majority of this volume concerns the descendants of those 12 children. George Rex is historically significant, as his birth may have been the product of a morganatic marriage between King George III and Hannah Lightfoot, a commoner. Originally researched and published by Leda Ferrell Rex in 1933, this volume has been rewritten and updated to the present day.

D. Egret (Editor)

Information & On-Line Data in Astronomy

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 1995

1. Facets and Challenges of the Information Technology Evolution; A. Heck. 2. The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Archive; P. Barrett. 3. Data from the X-Ray Observatory ROSAT; H.U. Zimmermann, et al. 4. The Einstein On-Line Service; D.E. Harris, C.S. Grant. 5. The EUVE Archive; Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics. 6. The IUE Archives; M. Barylak, et al. 7. Building the Archive Facility of the ESO Very Large Telescope; M.A. Albrecht, et al. 8. Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS); E. Deul, et al. 9. Data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE); D. Leisawitz, J.C. Mather. 10. The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database; G. Helou, et al. 11. LEDA: The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database; G. Paturel, et al. 12. The Database for Galactic Open Clusters (BDA); J.-C. Mermilliod. 13. The HEASARC Facility; The HEASARC Team. 14. IPAC Datasets and On-Line Services; R. Ebert, et al. 15. The Archives of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre; D.R. Crabtree, et al. 16. A Global Perspective on Astronomical Data and Information: The Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS); D. Egret, et al. 17. Data Holdings in the ADS; S.S. Murray, et al. 18. The European Space Information System ...

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (Author)

Black Swan

Editura: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize Selected by Marilyn Nelson Finalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize "Imagine Leda black-" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, she gives voice to silenced women past and present. In Van Clief-Stefanon's powerful voice, last night's angry words "puffed / into the dark room like steam / punching through the thick surface / of cooking grits." She remembers a child's innocence "lost / in the house where I learned the red rug / against my chest, my knees / my tongue, . . . ." Black Swan is filled with pain, loss, hope, and the promise of salvation.

Barbara Hamby (Author)

All-Night Lingo Tango

Editura: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR

Anul aparitiei: 2009

This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet masterwho can make a new world out of nothing.

Leda Raptis (Editor)

Sv40 Protocols

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Simian virus 40 gained notoriety in the 1960s because it was found to be a contaminant of polio and adenovirus vaccines that had been administered to millions of healthy individuals worldwide. The public health implications of this revelation provided the initial impetus for an in-depth study of SV40 biology. Later work showed that SV40 DNA sequences as well as infectious virus are in fact found in human tumors and may have contributed to oncog- esis. It also turned out that SV40 uses mostly cellular machinery to carry out many steps in viral infection, which makes it a powerful probe for examining many fundamental questions in eukaryotic molecular biology. SV40 Pro- cols consolidates a number of well-tested step-by-step techniques in one v- ume; experts with hands-on experience in particular methods give detailed accounts of their optimized experimental protocols, so that the beginner, as well as more experienced researchers, may readily overcome problems of ambiguity often present in the literature. As with other DNA tumor viruses, the response of cultured cells to SV40 infection depends upon the species being infected. Monkey cells s- port virus production, which leads to their ...