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Paperback. Condition: New. Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventionaland heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons offeminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these women writers chartevolutions of love across lifetimes, from the first flush of youth to growingold together. This new anthology gathers the talents of Margaret Atwood,Virginia Woolf, Amy Bloom, E. M. Delafield, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Taylor,Mary Lavin, Ling Shuhua, Jessamyn West and Carol Shields.This anthology brings together forgotten and celebratedfemale masters of the short story format. In the spirit of the Women Writersseries, these stories first appeared in books and periodicals published in thetwentieth century. The result is a carefully curated collection of stories thatsketch evolving understandings of love and female agency, as their heroinesnavigate romance and commitment, idealism and realism, innocence andexperience.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventionaland heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons offeminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these women writers chartevolutions of love across lifetimes, from the first flush of youth to growingold together. This new anthology gathers the talents of Margaret Atwood,Virginia Woolf, Amy Bloom, E. M. Delafield, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Taylor,Mary Lavin, Ling Shuhua, Jessamyn West and Carol Shields.This anthology brings together forgotten and celebratedfemale masters of the short story format. In the spirit of the Women Writersseries, these stories first appeared in books and periodicals published in thetwentieth century. The result is a carefully curated collection of stories thatsketch evolving understandings of love and female agency, as their heroinesnavigate romance and commitment, idealism and realism, innocence andexperience.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of the mystery surrounding the establishment, struggle, and disappearance of English colonies on Roanoke Island in the 1580s. Contains sixteen essays on various aspects of the mystery surrounding the establishment, struggle, and disappearance of English colonies on Roanoke Island in the 1580s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: As New. : Lean Enterprise Value redefine audazmente la producción ajustada como un marco para la transformación empresarial. Extendiendo la visión prevaleciente de lo ajustado a "eliminar el desperdicio con el objetivo de crear valor", los autores exploran el desafío central para las industrias técnicamente complejas en el nuevo siglo. El estudio de nueve años de la Iniciativa Aeroespacial Ajustada en el MIT ha proporcionado un "experimento vivo" para los principios y el marco de creación de valor que se desarrolla y explora en este libro.Este libro presenta un nuevo desafío, que surge del trabajo de la Iniciativa Aeroespacial Ajustada en el MIT y proporciona una nueva agenda y una visión audaz para que la industria aeroespacial salga de la crisis. También redefine y desarrolla el concepto de Lean como un marco para la transformación empresarial, lo que será relevante y crítico para todas las industrias y empresas. EAN: 9780333976975 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Negocios y Economía|Tecnología Título: Lean Enterprise Value Autor: Earll Murman| Thomas Allen| Kirkor Bozdogan| Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld| Hugh McManus| Deborah Nightingale| Eric Rebentisch| Tom Shields| Fred Stahl| Myles Walton| Joyce Warmkessel| Stanley Weiss| Sheila Widnall Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan Idioma: en Páginas: 360 Formato: tapa dura.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xiv) 257 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The cover features Girl in Red Turban by Mary Pratt, courtesy of the artist and the Mira Godard Gallery. This anthology contains: Meneseteung by Alice Munro; The Age of Lead by Margaret Atwood; Stones by Timothy Findley; Security by Neil Bissoondath; St Mary's Estate by Dionne Brand; Moon Watcher by Bonnie Burnard; A Young Girl Typist Ran to Smolny - Notes for a Film by Cynthia Flood; Lena by Mavis Gallant; The King of Siam by Katherine Govier; Milk, Bread, Beer, Ice by Carol Shields; A Really Good Hotel by Janice Kulyk Keefer; Something Happened Here by Norman Levine; King of the Raft by Daniel David Moses; Red Plaid Shirt by Diane Schoemperlen; Blue Spanish Eyes by Audrey Thomas; The Cave by W. D.Valgardson; and A Night in Fort Pit, or if you prefer The Only Perfect Communists in the World by Rudy Wiebe. Size: 12mo. Mary Pratt; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xx) 474 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. This anthology contains: City Life by Mary Gordon; The Falls by George Saunders; The Talk Talked Between Worms by Lee K. Abbott; On with the Story by John Barth; The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro; The Twa Corbies by Carolyn Cooke; Catface by Arthur Bradford; Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus; The Royal Palms by Matthew Klam; The Lipstick Tree by Kiana Davenport; The Red House by Ian MacMillan; Comfort by Mary Gaitskill; The Balm of Gilead Tree by Robert Morgan; The Final Inning by Thomas Glave; Mermaids by Deborah Eisenberg; The Old Farmhouse and the Dog Wife by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; The Taxi Ride by Patricia Elam Ruff; Mirrors by Carol Shields; His Chorus by Christine Schutt; and Demonology by Rick Moody. Size: 8vo. Book. …

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First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

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