Kim Ponders
Kim Ponders grew up near Boston and graduated from Syracuse University. In 1991 she flew with Desert Storm as one of the first American women ever in combat. Her experiences formed the basis of her first novel, The Art of Uncontrolled Flight. Now ... [... more]
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Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power To Change ...
 Professional Review Doesn't Understand Democracy: I read the professional review and disagree. I can be very pedantic and nit picking writing reviews, especially when a new approach comes along. Or, I can try to understand the purpose, process and [... more]
CDN$41.00
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Roger Schlaifer
Roger L. Schlaifer is well known for his bow ties and for his creative development and marketing of intellectual properties--among them Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol. Schlaifer is a graduate of Syracuse University and ... [... more]
Random House |
Robert O'Connor
Robert O'Connor was born in 1959, and received a B.A. in English/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego. He also has an M.A. in English from Syracuse University, where he studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. He ... [... more]
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Thomas E. Patterson
Thomas E. Patterson is the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. For many years he taught at Syracuse University. He is the author of several other books on politics and the ... [... more]
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Phil LaMarche
Phil LaMarche was a writing fellow in the Syracuse University graduate creative writing program. He was awarded the Ivan Klíma Fellowship in fiction in Prague and a Summer Literary Seminars fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia. His story "In [... more]
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Michael Novak
MICHAEL NOVAK received the 1994 Templeton Prize, an award that has also gone to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mother Teresa, and Charles Taylor. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford and has held academic chairs at Syracuse University and Notre Dame, ... [... more]
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Lawrence A. Trivieri
Lawrence Trivieri is a veteran of forty-two years of full-time teaching over a period of forty-eight years, having taught at Syracuse University, the State University of New York, and DeKalb College in Georgia. For the past three years, he has ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem ...
Ably and collaboratively translated into English: Compiled and edited by Ken Frieden (B. G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University) Classic Yiddish Stories Of S. Y. Abramovitsch, Sholem Aleichem, And I. L. Peretz is a collection of the [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History
fascinating new angle on Irish history: I found this book truly intriguing -- a brilliant new angle on Irish history and culture. I was fascinated by the introductory chapter on ancient Roman visions of Ireland,then found myself carried along on an [... more]
CDN$46.88
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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries
seems outdated, no novelty....: When I wanted to mark the book with 3 stars, I was surpised indeed that other readers did the same. Over the years I used to buy a book by M. Gardner the moment I saw it a bookstore, and by now I have a dozen of them or [... more]
CDN$39.00
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Widening Circles: A Memoir
Coming to Understand Who We Really Are: I live in the Pacific Northwest. We are experiencing a rather intense conflict over whalehunting by the Makah Indian Nation. Many non-Indian (and some Native) environmentalists and animal lovers oppose the [... more]
CDN$18.01
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