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| Elliott Currie - Crime and Punishment in America |
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Statistics reveal that there are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. Despite some recent declines in urban crime rates, we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. In a hard-hitting and accessible work, nationally acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie lays out why ...
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| Paul Muldoon - Moy Sand and Gravel |
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The author's ninth collection of poems takes the reader on a richly evocative tour of Ireland, with glimpses of Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, William Butler Yeats, and Sitting Bull, to name just a few. Reprint.
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| Philip Levine - The Simple Truth: Poems |
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1995, Philip Levine goes from strength to strength, having received the National Book Ward for Poetry for his earlier book What Work Is. This is the first paperback edition of this text, about which Harold Bloom said, "The controlled pathos of every poem in t ...
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| Robert Stone - Bear and His Daughter: Stories |
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The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Un ...
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