Cruising Paradise: Tales
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
Shepard Plays: 3
Sam Shepard is 'the greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft...the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society' (New York magazine) &q...
Great Dream of Heaven
In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him 'the great playwright of his generation' (The New York Times). A boy watches a 'remedy man' tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their favorite waitress. Peering unblinkingly into the chasms that separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and strangers, these powerful tales bear the unmistakable signature of an American master.
Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon
people here have become the people they're pretending to be. 'Sam Shepard's language is sparse and crystal clear. His words appear modest, but they have huge scope.' Wim Wenders This volume is the first collection of Sam Shepard's autobiographical...
Fool for Love
'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy .
Sam Shepard Plays 2
Sam Shepard has been described by the New Yorker as 'one of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today'. Here are seven of his finest plays, including True West and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Also included are Cu...
One Inside
One Inside
A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind
Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside eviden...
Simple Flutes
Simple flutes of bamboo, wood, metal, plastic, or clay can be a joy to play and make. This book gives you the basics of simple flute playing, then offers guidelines for making flutes of your own from a variety of materials. It even includes a handy chart for 'where to put the holes.' 'Simple Flutes' is a must for simple flute players and makers ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of 'How to Love Your Flute,' hailed by Paul Horn as 'a model for our times,' as well as the craft guide 'Simple Flutes.' For many years, he was a professional artisan, making and selling flutes of bamboo or plastic. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// 'Contains the essense of a tremendous amount of experience.' -- Sam Hinton, Sing Out 'An excellent overview.' -- Monty Levenson, Tai Hei Shakuhachi 'A slim, elegantly presented, and highly practical guide. . . . First-rate, user friendly.' -- Midwest Book Review, Aug. 2002 'This thin volume contains a wealth
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492
Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell...
Accounting for Oneself
Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces to...
Accounting for Oneself
Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces to...
Weapons of Mass Seduction
Weapons of Mass Seduction
Nature and Madness
Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence-we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural ...
Penny Draws a Class Trip
The fourth book in the humorous, heartfelt, highly illustrated series about a girl who doodles to cope with her anxiety, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard. When fifth grader Penny Lowry and her classmates get invited to go to New York City for a weekend hosted by Billy J. Plumberry, the famous author her school is named for, Penny finds a lot to worry about. After all, isn't the city full of aggressive bike messengers ready to run kids over? And what if she gets stuck in an elevator for life? Not to mention all the pianos falling out of windows everywhere On the other hand, what if it might actually be fun to explore an exciting new place with some of her best friends? When it soon becomes clear Billy J. Plumberry has a few surprises in store, can Penny find a way to face her fears--and her worries--in the biggest, bustling-est place she's ever been?
The World to Come: Stories
Bursting with wicked humor and driven by an incomparable understanding of what it means to be human,¿ The World to Come ¿is the inimitable work of¿ "the most ambitious story writer in America" ( The Daily Beast ). Now a major motio...
Dragon Griaule
Lucius Shepard's acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains: 'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule' 'The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter' 'The Father of S...
How to Manage Problem Employees
There was a time when people were committed to working hard and being productive in the work force. Today, however, some workers have an entitlement mentality and the labor pool includes some people who donâ??t want a job - just a paycheck. In res...
How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without
In his previous books, noted management consultant Glenn Shepard showed managers how to get the most from their workforce. Now, in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without, Shepard shows employees how to get the most from themselves,...
Two Truths and a Lie: A Lying Game Novel
From the author of the New York Times bestselling PRETTY LITTLE LIARS comes a killer new series, THE LYING GAME. My killer is out there. And my sister might be next to die. Two months before I died, my best friend's brother disappeared. I have no ...