Authors:Paul Shepard, Florence R. Shepard,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: pleistocene, home, coming
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1559635894
ISBN-13: 9781559635899

"When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconciliation between opposites which are of our own making." -from COMING HOME TO THE PLEISTOCEN.Paul Shepard was one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. Seminal works like The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game , Thinking Animals, and Nature and Madness introduced readers to new a

Author: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: stories, anyway, understand
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0307265218
ISBN-13: 9780307265210

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all,

Author: Jon M. Shepard
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: updated, sociology
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2006-08-03
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0495096342
ISBN-13: 9780495096344

A built-in study guide, the SQ3R learning system, and a dynamic critical thinking focus-not to mention its affordable price-all combine to make SOCIOLOGY an exceptional textbook. The book is theoretically balanced and features exceptional scholarship and readability. You’ll enjoy its vivid full-color presentation, accessibility, and solid research-orientation to the basic principles of sociology.

Author: Lee Shepard
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: stories, twilight, follen
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 1110689624
ISBN-13: 9781110689620

Author: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, project
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1400033489
ISBN-13: 9781400033485

n the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can’t quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily. Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the hallways, classrooms, and at home, until an unthinkable idea offers them a spectacular and terrifying release.From Jim Shepard, one of the most enduring and

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: plays, hand, unseen
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1996-04-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679767894
ISBN-13: 9780679767893

The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand ¥ Forensic and the Navigators ¥ The Holy Ghostly ¥ Back Bog Beast Bait ¥ Shaved Splits ¥ 4-H Club.

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: mind, lie
Number of Pages: 101
Published: 1998-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822206560
ISBN-13: 9780822206569

Currently a critical and box office sensation, Sam Shepard’s newest play is amasterpiece of poetic and theatrical brilliance that looks unerringly at loveand family in the American West.