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1	Eternal echoes more books like this by John O'Donohue add to wishlist This work embarks on a journey of discovery into the heart of the post-modern world - a hungry, homeless world that suffers from a deep sense of isolation and fragmentation. This stems from the need to belong, the most basic of human desires. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.60! \| first editions
2	Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World more books like this by Edward S Casey add to wishlist What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend sheer placelessness. Indeed, the place we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in our everyday lives, philosophers have neglected it. "Getting Back into Place" offers a ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $26.58! \| SVS
3	The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home more books like this by Melissa Holbrook Pierson add to wishlist Every day brings evidence of dramatic change upon the landscape. It's called progress. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember more books like this by Mickey Pearlman, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist Twenty well-known women--Maxine Hong Kingston, Rosellen Brown, Lois Lowry, and Kathryn Harrison, among them--reveal what the idea of home means to them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Women and the Politics of Place more books like this by Wendy Harcourt (Editor), Arturo Escobar (Editor) add to wishlist In "Women and the Politics of Place", Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar analyze women's economic and social justice movements by challenging traditional views. The authors reveal how an interrelated set of transformations around the body, environment, and the economy factors into place-based practices of women and how these provide alternative ... see all copies from $29.74! new only from $29.74!
6	Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper more books like this by Charles Butler add to wishlist "Four British Fantasists" explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writers who rose to prominence in the second Golden Age of children's literature in Britain. They are Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. see all copies from $27.64! new only from $27.64! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Places in the World a Person Could Walk: Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country more books like this by David Syring add to wishlist Spring-fed creeks. Old stone houses. Cedar brakes and bleached limestone. The Hill Country holds powerful sway over the imagination of Texans. So many of us dream of having our own little place in the limestone hills. The Hill Country feels just like home, even if you've never lived there. This beautifully written book explores what the Hill ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	The Transportation of Place more books like this by Maurice Berger, Lucy R Lippard add to wishlist see all copies from $5.80! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes more books like this by Tamar Yellin add to wishlist Taking its imagery from the legend of the ten tribes of Israel exiled by the Assyrians and lost to the pages of history beyond the River Sambatyon, "Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes" follows the life-journey of a wandering narrator who encounters a series of displaced persons: the uncle whose endless travels seem romantic but are in fact a camouflage ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by Twenty Contemporary Writers more books like this by Jodi Daynard add to wishlist The Place Within is a time capsule in words by some of our most distinguished writers. These portraits about the places in our country's diverse landscape range from the hummingbirds of Montana to the neon lights of Time Square, the brush fires of Alaska to the Grand Canyon's silend grandeur. Finally, NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman lifts us up ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind more books like this by Harold H Hellwig add to wishlist This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his ouvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works "Roughing It", "A Tramp Abroad", "The Innocents Abroad", ... see all copies from $21.75! new only from $21.75!
12	Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasglow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor more books like this by Helen Fiddyment Levy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land more books like this by Susan Neville add to wishlist Calling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Crossing Color: Transcultural Space & Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, & Drama more books like this by Therese Steffen, Therese Frey Steffen add to wishlist Rita Dove is one of the premier American poets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and US poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, Dove appeals to a broad public by means of readings, stage productions, and the media. This work is a monographic investigation of the major African American author Rita Dove's writing. The book examines the linguistic ... see all copies from $15.80! new only from $51.31! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism more books like this by Robert E Abrams add to wishlist In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens ... see all copies from $23.61! new only from $23.61! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction more books like this by Diane Dufva Quantic add to wishlist 'Persuasive and engaging ...For those interested in understanding how the literature of a region both enacts and undermines its mythical past, Diane Quantic's book is the place to begin' - "Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature". 'This interesting and accessible book focuses on a broad range of mythic Great Plains images and how they ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Locality and Belonging more books like this by Nadia Lovell (Editor) add to wishlist The issue of belonging is crucial to the study of identity within social anthropology. Locality and Belonging explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and experienced space. Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the ... see all copies from $23.72! new only from $40.80! \| SVS
18	Corollaries on place and time more books like this by of Cilicia Simplicius add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $87.06!
19 view cover	In My Own Shire: Region and Belonging in British Writing, 1840-1970 more books like this by Stephen Wade add to wishlist Highlights the importance of regional consciousness in British literature in the Victorian and modern periods. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $19.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature more books like this by Nicholas O'Connell add to wishlist "On Sacred Ground" explores writings about the Northwest, the area that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Siskiyou Mountains. There is astonishing geographical diversity in this bioregion, and yet the entire Northwest shares a similarity of climate, flora, and fauna. For Nicholas O ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $10.72! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Noble Savage in the New World Garden: Notes Toward a Syntactics of Place more books like this by Gaile McGregor add to wishlist This book is a literary history of the Noble Savage and a comprehensive metamorphology of the American mind. Wide-ranging and deep-diving, this book suggests many reevaluations of American heroes and attitudes. see all copies from $4.84! new only from $13.53! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Places for Dead Bodies more books like this by Gary J Hausladen add to wishlist From Tony Hillerman's "Navajo Southwest" to Martin Cruz Smith's "Moscow", an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. In fact, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels. ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $10.08! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Where Inspiration Lives: Writers, Artists, and Their Creative Places more books like this by John Miller, Esq, Aaron Kenedi add to wishlist With intimate photos and paintings, Where Inspiration Lives explores ten writers, artists, and the places that inspire them. From painter Richard Diebenkorn, whose Ocean Park paintings capture the pale light of his southern Californian beachfront home, to Terry McMillan, for whom a house is simply a home for her family rather than a profound ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| SVS
24 view cover	Country of Exiles more books like this by William Leach add to wishlist A trenchant analysis of the way the new global economy has wrought changes in Americans's sense of place. He identifies diminished forces of cohesion resulting in a "cosmopolitan" vs. "local" psychology. see all copies from $2.89! new only from $8.40! \| SVS
25 view cover	Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World more books like this by Jeff Malpas add to wishlist This is a groundbreaking argument that the concept of place is central to Heidegger's thinking - and at the heart of all philosophical inquiry. This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but also a detailed investigation into the way in ... see all copies from $16.37! new only from $16.37! \| first editions \| SVS

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