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Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author

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This is the first comprehensive English-language field guide to the wildlife of Chile and its territories--Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández, and San Félix y San Ambrosio From bats to butterflies, lizards to llamas, and ferns to flamingos, A Wildlife Guide to Chile covers the country's common plants and animals The color plates depict species in their natural environments with unmatched vividness and realism. The combination of detailed illustrations and engaging, succinct, and authoritative text make field identification quick, easy, and accurate. Maps, charts, and diagrams provide information about landforms, submarine topography, marine environment, climate, vegetation zones, and the best places to view wildlife. This is an essential guide to Chile's remarkable biodiversity.

• The only comprehensive English-language guide to Chile's common flora and fauna
• The first guide to cover Chile and its territories--Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández, and San Félix y San Ambrosio
• 120 full-color plates allow quick identification of more than 800 species
• Accompanying text describes species size, shape, color, habitat, and range
• Descriptions list size, distribution, and English, Spanish, and scientific names
• Information on the best spots to view wildlife, including major national parks
• Compact and lightweight--a perfect field guide

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"A tiny fragment of life, simply told and yet touching in the extreme "-French Book News

Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When the café goes under, Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thought over three days, Pierre's humanity and profound solitude are revealed.

Dominique Fabre is the author of six novels. He won the Marcel Pagnol Prize for Fantômes in 2001. The Waitress was New is his first book to appear in English.

Jordan Stump is a noted translator of modern French novelists, including Marie Redonnet and Éric Chevillard.

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At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish's interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection-widely considered his chef-d'oeuvre-is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to the Arabic language and his displaced people. Darwish's poems-specific and symbolic, simple and profound-are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.

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In Mute Objects of Expression, Francis Ponge proclaims his goal: to accept the challenge that things--objects-offer to language These objects and scenes are perceived with unique Pongean art and humor in this volume centering on the unoccupied southern Loire countryside, where his family lived from 1940 to 1943. Because of wartime shortages, much of the book was drafted in a small notebook that made up his sole supply of paper. The poems recall the voices of Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams and evoke the violent perfume of the mimosa, the cries of carnations, and the flirtations of wasps. He is moved to explore a shadowy town square glimpsed from a bus window. But "to conquer this landscape of Provence? That would be too much!" claimed Ponge. Mute Objects of Expression is one of Ponge's most important and beloved volumes.

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"Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the saga's shadow. . . . To read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland-he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity."-Guardian

"Laxness is a poet who writes at the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: He takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in a Waugh-like humor: it is not possible to be unimpressed."-Daily Telegraph

"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling."-Alice Munro

Halldór Laxness' first major novel propels Iceland into the modern world. A young poet leaves the physical and cultural confines of Iceland's shores for the jumbled world of post-WWI Europe. His journey leads the reader through a huge range of moral, philosophical, religious, political, and social realms, exploring, as Laxness expressed it, the "far-ranging variety in the life of a soul, with the swings of a pendulum oscillating between angel and devil." Published when Laxness was twenty-five years old, The Great Weaver from Kashmir's radical experimentation caused a stir in Iceland.

Halldór Laxness is the master of modern Icelandic fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 for his "vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland."

Philip Roughton's translations include Laxness' Iceland's Bell, for which he won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 2001.

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For this project, Middleton and Liittschwager gained unprecedented access to photograph on and around these protected islands that are otherwise completely off-limits to people. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's coral reefs, known as the "rainforests of the sea," the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is a remarkable ecosystem that supports a vast array of interdependent native plants and animals that have evolved in this habitat over millions of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet.

The result is Archipelago. With its more than 300 stunning images, the book illustrates the spectacular diversity of these ocean and island creatures, as well as profiles many of the people dedicated to the preservation of this habitat. The inaccessibility of these islands and the need to protect them means that few people will ever be able to visit them in person, though now, for the first time, the area's inhabitants are available for all the world to see through this important body of work. In conjunction with the publication of Archipelago, exhibitions of these photographs will be mounted in Honolulu and Washington, and will then travel to venues around the country throughout 2006..
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Hyperion is a novel of remarkable emotional force, poetic sublimity, and enduring influence. This sole novel by the iconic German lyric poet explores the pivotal phases of a poet's life journey, the struggle for freedom, the divinity of nature and love, and the meaning of solitude. Friedrich Hölderlin's gestures toward a higher spiritual unity left their mark on the founding texts of the nineteenth century.

Friedrich Hölderlin (17701843) has achieved recognition as one of the greatest German poets of lyrical verse. His work had a profound influence on German Romanticism.

Ross Benjamin is a freelance writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. His reviews have appeared in Bookforum, The Nation, and The New York Times.

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