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A "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearA "Publisher's Weekly" Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological positi... More

The author of "Publish and Perish "returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe Nelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a... More

A tense calm that pervades over Northern Ireland is about to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. As he plans to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership, two unsuspecting young Americans are drawn in to the unforgiving labyrinth of modern terrorism.After years o... More

The author of "Publish and Perish" returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe. The perfect-pitch blend of satire and horror, it is the story of an English lecturer who gets the axe at his job, loses his finger in a freak accident, and then finds that he has acquired a strange power: he c... More

"Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining."--"The Washington Post Book World" Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch un... More

"Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy" is James Livingston's virtuoso reflection on the period between 1890 and 1930, a primal scene of American history during which a wave of intellectual currents came together--and fell apart--to reorient society. Tying in critical insights on corporate capitalism... More

The perceptions and attitudes that exist today between the East and the West had their origins in former times and earlier civilizations but have been exacerbated by modern day acts of aggression and subjugation. This seemingly unending conflict is now wreaking havoc on a good part of the western wo... More

This book is a comprehensive survey of urbanization in South Asia during the last 5000 years. Divided into clear accessible chapters, the book: explores ancient cities, including the Harappan or Sindhu/Sarasvati Civilization, the 'second' urbanization beginning in the Ganga River basin of northern I... More