David Wallace: 113 books

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated...

Als jouw zorgen over de opwarming van de aarde zich beperken tot angst voor de stijgende zeespiegel, dan zie je slechts het topje van de ijsberg. Het is veel, veel erger dan je denkt. Klimaatverandering wordt vaak beschouwd als een langzaam proces, maar de onheilspellende effecten ervan zien we nu...

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness...

“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred...

The tale-of-the-tape is just about even. It may even favor the fairer sex. Benny is short, scrawny--lazy yet smug. He's a typical entitled, young male. When he sees Alice, he realizes he's never wanted anything more.Alice, however, isn't what she appears.Fresh from her...

Beautiful ... JPEGS, recreational ... pharmaceuticals, and elite ... websites - this isn't the college scene that Victor Hastings expected. Victor likes to admire the provocative pictures of the girls he's dating. Meanwhile, these girls are posting more and more on Facebook and all the social...

More and More is a satirical, long form poem about a trip to the grocery store.

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness...

Pollinating insects are in crisis. Honey bees and native pollinator species are disappearing. The efforts of citizen scientists will be required to complement the work of professional biologists if we are to find solutions. This handbook provides an illustrated guide that citizen scientists can use...

The "dog on the street" is the common dog, the everyday dog, the dog who walks his or her human every day on city sidewalks. Although dogs can't speak directly to humans, if we could read their minds we'd find they have a lot to say. This book puts dog thoughts into words so that we can see the humorous side of being a "dog on the street."

Jesus                                           Me A.k.a the Son of David               The son of David The Son of Abraham                  the Son of Abraham Aunt named Elizabeth                Aunt named Elizabeth Son named...

Today, Palm Springs' gay-owned businesses are flourishing, and even the Palm Springs Art Museum cashes in by hosting gay fundraising events. Quite a change from the 1960s, when a local pastor was run out of town when it was discovered that he was gay. But one thing is still missing from Palm Springs—a...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...