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  • Charles Dickens in Cyberspace

    The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture

    by Jay Clayton ...
    Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. Surveying a wide range of novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay Clayton traces the concealed circuits that connect the telegraph with the Internet, Charles Babbage ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Literature, Science, and Public Policy

    From Darwin to Genomics

    by Jay Clayton ...
    Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range from the literary response ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Time and the Literary

    Edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch ...
    Series series Essays from the English Institute
    Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary Modernity" and newly commissioned essays on everything from the human genome to grammatical tenses ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Dickens and Modernity

    by Juliet John, Kim Edwards Keates, Michael Hollington, Michaela Mahlberg, Carrie Sickmann, Dominic Rainsford, Florian Schweizer, Holly Furneaux, Jay Clayton, John Drew0, Joss Marsh1 ...
    The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Black Enough

    Stories of Being Young & Black in America

    by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia ...
    Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Black is…sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Black Enough

    by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coleen Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Rita Williams-Garcia, Renée Watson ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Outposts on the Frontier

    A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations

    by Jay Chladek ...
    Series series Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • A Good Kind of Trouble

    by Lisa Moore Ramée ...
    From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds.**Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh ... Read more

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  • From the Desk of Zoe Washington

    by Janae Marks ...
    Series Book 2 - Zoe Washington
    #1 Kids Indie Next List * Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of the Year * SLJ Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * Junior Library Guild Selection * Edgar Award Nominee * Four Starred Reviews * Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year * An Indie Bestseller *From debut author Janae Marks comes a captivating story full of heart ... Read more

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  • Punching the Air

    by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam ...
    New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the YearFrom award ... Read more

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  • Almost American Girl

    A Graphic Memoir

    by Robin Ha ...
    Illustrated by Robin Ha ...
    Harvey Award Nominee, Best Children or Young Adult BookA powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life**—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo.**For as long as she can remember, it’s been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn’t always easy, but it has ... Read more

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