AMERICAN WRITERS, Supplement VI

This volume is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, William Gass, Charles Johnson, Irving Howe, Susan Minot, Grace Paley, Reynolds Price, Stanley Elkin, and Jane Smiley have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.

Mummies & Pyramids

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Ages: 8 years and up

An exploration of the mysterious world of mummies and pyramids, and the insights they give into ancient civilization. It explains the scientific techniques used to examine mummies and how mummies have been viewed throughout history.

This book takes you back in time to the amazing world of the ancient  Egyptians, where you'll discover how mummies were made, how the pyramids  were built, and the truth about the curse of Tutankhamun.

This Very Short Introduction gives the reader a basic orientation to this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices. From the hero of the medieval Song of Roland to the Caribbean heroines of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem or the European expatriate in Japan in Fear and Trembling, these problematic protagonists allow us to understand what interests writers and readers across the wide world of French literature.

Aldous Huxley (New Edition) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Aldous Huxley has been called the 20th century's answer to the Renaissance thinker. He gained fame from his utopian and dystopian fiction, including Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, and Ape and Essence. Learn more about Huxley through the work of respected critics included in this text.

Digital Communities in a Networked Society

Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government deals with the accelerating evolution in the computerization of society. This evolution, or should we call it a revolution, is dominantly driven by the Internet, and documented by the novelties introduced, year by year, by Information and Communication Technologies. The book contains recent results of research and development in these areas