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  • Questions of Possibility

    Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form

    by David Caplan ...
    Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet, this study advances a new understanding ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Rhyme's Challenge

    Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

    by David Caplan ...
    Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • American Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Caplan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scum's Wish, Vol. 1

    by Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman ...
    Translated by David Rowe-Caplan ...
    Series Book 1 - Scum's Wish
    Mugi and Hanabi are the perfect high school couple...but their relationship is built on a single shared secret: They're each in love with someone else. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    American Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Caplan ...
    Narrated by Amir Abdullah ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • SELinux by Example

    Using Security Enhanced Linux

    by Frank Mayer, David Caplan, Karl MacMillan ...
    SELinux: Bring World-Class Security to Any Linux Environment!SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it’s easier than ever to take ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Scum's Wish, Vol. 8

    by Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman ...
    Translated by David Rowe-Caplan ...
    Series Book 8 - Scum's Wish
    Can one person change another...? When someone says it's impossible, is that only because they failed...? But people never stay the same, no matter how much you may love them the way they are. As new lives open up for those around them, Hanabi and Mugi must pick up the pieces of their shattered hopes. When they finally find a way to walk forward, will it be hand in hand or...? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Scum's Wish, Vol. 2

    by Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman ...
    Translated by David Rowe-Caplan ...
    Series Book 2 - Scum's Wish
    Mugi and Hanabi are in a relationship in spite of (and because) they're in love with other people. As this deception continues, are they going to hurt the ones they care for most? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Myth of the Rational Voter, The

    Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

    by Bryan Caplan ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening audiobook. Caplan, a self-described libertarian/anarchist, argues that voters continually elect politicians ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scum's Wish, Vol. 6

    by Mengo Yokoyari ...
    Translated by David Rowe-Caplan ...
    Series Book 6 - Scum's Wish
    Hanabi has decided to confess. Mugi is confronted with Moka's feelings. Ebato still pines after Hanabi. They want to go forward, they want to stop, they want it all to end...or do they? It's not uncommon to be a coward when it comes to love. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Scum's Wish, Vol. 3

    by Mengo Yokoyari, Erin Hickman ...
    Translated by David Rowe-Caplan ...
    Series Book 3 - Scum's Wish
    Mugi and Hanabi's faux relationship continues, with the players secure in the knowledge that their true feelings lie elsewhere. When the objects of their affections begin crafting a new story, though, what will be the fallout? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females

    Gender, Temporality—and Yentas

    by Marleen S. Barr, Daniel J. Brin, Leigh Gold, Lisa Goldstein, Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Elyce Rae Helford, Erga Heller, Adeena Karasick0, Pamela Sargent1, Lance Strate2, Jack Dann3, David Brin4, Jennifer Caplan5, Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro6 ...
    Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr’s Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by ... Read more

    $85.09 USD