Author: Ron Roy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Keywords: mysteries, author, absent
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1997-09-23
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0679881689
ISBN-13: 9780679881681

A is for author.... Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writerWallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink’s amazement,Wallace says he’ll come! But when the big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to befound. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink suspects foul play.It’s up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find thefamous writer--before it’s too late!

Author: Betool Khedairi
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, absent
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812977424
ISBN-13: 9780812977424

Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers, and Ilham, a nurse, escapes the stark realities of her hospital job in dreams of her long-lost French mother. Despite the damaging effects of bombings and international sanctions on their world, all the residents try to maintain normal lives.Hoping to bring in much-needed cash by selling honey, D

Author: Drew Leder
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: absent
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 1990-06-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226470008
ISBN-13: 9780226470009

The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent—forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured. In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation. He dis

Author: Ricardo Piglia
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: city, absent
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0822325861
ISBN-13: 9780822325864

Author: Drew Leder
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: absent
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 1990-07-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0226469999
ISBN-13: 9780226469997

The body plays a central role in shaping our experience of the world. Why, then, are we so frequently oblivious to our own bodies? We gaze at the world, but rarely see our own eyes. We may be unable to explain how we perform the simplest of acts. We are even less aware of our internal organs and the physiological processes that keep us alive. In this fascinating work, Drew Leder examines all the ways in which the body is absent—forgotten, alien, uncontrollable, obscured. In part 1, Leder explores a wide range of bodily functions with an eye to structures of concealment and alienation. He dis

Author: Stefan Collini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: britain, intellectuals, minds, absent
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2006-04-27
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0199291055
ISBN-13: 9780199291052

The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain and offers a persuasive analysis of ’the intellectual’ as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, friends, absent
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1991-11
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811211754
ISBN-13: 9780811211758