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  • Ugliness

    A Cultural History

    by Gretchen E. Henderson ...
    ‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2019-2020

    by Ladette Randolph, Nick Arvin, Sallie Tisdale, Tony Hoagland, Gretchen E. Henderson, Gail Mazur ...
    The Winter 2019-20 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Fall 2024

    by Ladette Randolph, Andre Dubus III, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Benjamin Hoffmann, Aiysha Jahan, Joy Notoma, Shuchi Saraswat, Jen Silverman, Richard Stock, Daniel Taylor ...
    The Fall 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the most innovative voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2024 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Life in the Tar Seeps

    A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea

    by Gretchen Ernster Henderson ...
    At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making. This reputedly dead sea is home to tar seeps, pools of raw oil (nicknamed ‘death traps’) that act as a preservative, encasing organisms as they were in life.In this spare landscape, an intricate web of life unfurls. Halophiles―salt-hungry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Happiness After Horror

    Girl Traumatized by Sadistic Stepfather

    by Gretchen Henderson ...
    Gretchen Henderson had a happy childhood until age seven when she succumbed to the physical, sexual, and mental abuse of her stepfather. He disappeared a few years later, but the trauma that had been endured severely damaged her psyche. This led to deep depression and several suicide attempts However, fate had different ideas… HAPPINESS AFTER HORROR is a book that will compel you to read until the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Ends of the World

    Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
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    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2022

    by Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer ...
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    A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. ... Read more

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  • On Trails

    An Exploration

    by Robert Moor ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Read more

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

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    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

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