Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English after his forties, Nabokov was a trilingual author, equally competent in Russian, English, and French. A gifted and tireless translator, he bridged the gap between ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
A century and a half after the publication of "Origin of Species", evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects - anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of ...
Volume Two of a three-volume set that includes all the fiction and nonfiction Nabokov wrote while in America, along with notes and chronology by Brian Boyd.
This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he ...
Nabokov's biographer, Brian Boyd, and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle have compiled Nabokov's writings on the subject of butterflies, a collection that includes poems, letters, journal entries, and bits of stories. Nabokov was as accomplished a lepidopterist as he was a writer; during the 1940s, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, he ...
Knitters of all skill levels will love the 30 quick and easy patterns featured in "Soft + Simple Knits for Little Ones". This book includes patterns for clothing, accessories and toys, each created in Heidi Boyd's fun and whimsical style.Projects include brightly coloured sweaters, a foxy stole for a stylish baby, a functional and pretty stroller ...
This volume is a practical and well-illustrated "how-to" guide to a variety of techniques for eliminating facial lines and wrinkles. The book provides step by step instructions on the use of retinoids, fruit acids, chemical peels, laser skin resurfacing, augmentation, implants, and other options. Coverage also includes an overview of surgical ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
Speaking Secrets of the Masters is the perfect, comprehensive resource for anyone who faces the responsibility of presenting information, thoughts, ideas, concepts to an audience. Whether you are addressing a board of directors, an association meeting of thousands, a classroom or your own social club, the techniques these leading speakers share ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
"Pale Fire" is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators ...
The first of a two-volume biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the great writers of the 20th century, this book draws on diaries, letters, manuscripts and archival research in the former Soviet Union, Europe and North America. It is also based on interviews with Nabokov's family, friends, colleagues, students and others, including an ex-fiancee, ...
"Business and Legal Primer for Games" explores the major legal and business issues involved in game development with a particular focus on starting a business. The book contains practical introductory sections on business and legal problems that members of the development community are often confronted with. These problems include business ...
Experts agree that the earth will eventually run out of certain low-cost, nonrenewable resources, possibly as early as a century from now. Will the transition to reliance on other, more abundant resources be smooth or discontinuous? Might industrial societies experience a marked decline in living standards--a radically different kind of society ...
In this first view of adoption in China from a child's perspective, eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry returns to her orphanage to write a story so that other adopted children will understand where they came from.
Cathy Crowe always wanted to be a nurse but she never planned to be a Street Nurse, a title she continues to use to evoke the horror of homelessness. Here she brings readers the voices of ten homeless activists advocating for change. These are brave, charismatic, intelligent and determined individuals, many of whom have lived on the street for ...
The first definitive and comprehensive compendium of the works of Boyd Rice, a provocative, controversial underground figure of the post-punk era. In the 1980s, Rice established his position in underground with recountings of his uproarious pranks and promotion of incredibly strange cult films and industrial culture. Rices influence on the ...
The Continuing Professional Development series sets out to demystify professional development in education, and does so from a Scottish perspective. All books in the series approach their subject in an accessible manner that allows teachers and educators to perceive how continuing professional development can enhance job satisfaction - as well as ...
Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness explores the relationship between the obvious dazzle of Nabokov's style and the unsuspected depths of his thought before focusing on his richest and most surprising novel. This "stunning," "magnificent" first book by "the great man of Nabokov studies," which "provides not only the best commentary on Ada, ...
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