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Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader - Paperback
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by Laura Backes (Author)Get Your Child Hooked on Books Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life--even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal--the best of the best for children of all reading levels. These books will captiv...
Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry - Paperback
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by Martha Amore (Editor), Lucian Childs (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures o...
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton - Paperback
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by Emily J. Orlando (Editor)Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studi...
The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts - Paperback
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by Catriona McAra (Author)Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It explores the work of a remar...
Mural - Paperback
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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), John Berger (Introduction by), John Berger (Translator)"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."-Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. His poems display a brillian...
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines - Hardcover
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by Jamise Harper (Author), Jane Mount (Author), Jane Mount (Illustrator)It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary, coauthors Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines book community) and Jane Mount (author of Bibliophile) collaborated to create an essential volume filled with treasures for...
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green - Paperback
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by Homer (Author), Peter Green (Translator) One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers. Featuring an enticingly personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary, and ...
Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology - Hardcover
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by Irina Holca (Other), Yasusuke Oura (Editor), Yoshiki Hidaka (Contribution by)Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology is the English translation of the 2017 volume edited by Yasusuke Ōura (Nihon Bungaku Riron: Ansorojii), which grew from a unique collaboration between scholars of Western literatures and scholars of modern Japanese literature. Its eight thematic chapters on various aspects of literary theory each contain excerpts from representative texts by Japanese intellectuals, discusse...
In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature: Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengakos - Hardcover
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by Franco Montanari (Editor), Theodore Papanghelis (Editor), Bernhard Zimmermann (Editor)The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questio...
Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History - Paperback
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by P. Buse (Editor), A. Stott (Editor)Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical essays to evaluate these facts and consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture, and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that encapsulates social anxieties and concerns. The co...
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction: From Girl to Woman - Hardcover
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by Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez (Author)Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, Gonz?lez shows that these works evoke the female life cycle and develop current perceptions of the female maturational experience. A...
Imaginary Worlds - Paperback
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by Lin Carter (Author)Imaginary Worlds by Lin Carter is a nonfiction book that explores the history and development of fantasy literature. Published in 1973, it discusses the evolution of the genre, from the early myths and legends that inspired it to the works of modern fantasy authors. Carter delves into the imaginative worlds created by authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, and many others, analyzing their techniques and approaches to world-building.Carter, who was an...
Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable - Hardcover
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by Jan Overwijk (Author)A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and critical theory. Overwijk examines how neoliberal capitalism now thrives on the management of incommunicability rather than the pursuit of total communicability, harnessing ecological complexity as its driving force. Contrary to earlier critiques that highlighted capitalism's push to render all social life f...
Self-Published Psychogeographies: Zines, DIY Communities and the 21st Century Drifter - Hardcover
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by Tanja Kapp (Author)This book explores the world of psychogeographical walking as portrayed in zines - self-made, low-budget publications circulated within DIY communities. Termed "new psychogeography", the representation of these mobilities in zines challenge conventional dualisms, favoring peripheral spaces and polyphonic perspectives over urban-centric voyeurism. Through four case studies, the book explores the evolution of the contemporary drifter, emphasizing a departure from conquerin...
The Well of Loneliness - Paperback
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by Radclyffe Hall (Author), Jana Funke (Author), Hannah Roche (Author)'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.' The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature, Radclyffe Hall's novel charts the development of a 'female sexual invert', Stephen Gordon, who from childhood feels an innate sense of masculinity and desire for women. After relocating from Malvern to London and then to Paris,...
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays - Paperback
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by Northrop Frye (Author), David Damrosch (Editor)A landmark work of literary criticism Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the relations among the text, the reader, and society. ...
Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel) Vol. 3 - Paperback
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by Syougo Kinugasa (Author), Tomoseshunsaku (Illustrator)THIS ISLAND'S NO PARADISE The special exam on an uninhabited island has begun! For two weeks, students will do their best to visit checkpoints and complete challenges to gain points with their groups. Well, except for Ayanokouji, who has opted to tackle this exam on his own... or has he? Nanase, a first-year student from Class D, breaks off from her own group and asks to tag along with him, but there doesn't seem to be anything in it fo...
Pub - Paperback
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by Philip Howell (Author), Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "ti...
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays - Paperback
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by Scaachi Koul (Author)One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFE In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can ...
Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative - Paperback
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by Rocío del Aguila (Editor), Vanesa Miseres (Editor)Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives; the role of cooking in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's poetics; the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women; the relationship among food, recipes, and national ident...
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Hardcover
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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some of his timeless masterpieces namely ' Annabel Lee', ' The Raven', ' To Helen', ' MS. Found in a Bottle', ' The Fall of the House of Usher', ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue', ' The Tel...
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight - Paperback
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by Terrance Hayes (Author)"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." --NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet's search for another and in doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art in Americ...
Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology - Hardcover
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by Ellie Mackin Roberts (Author)Goddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine - whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do they take centre stage. Their time has finally come to act as protagonists in their own stories. Heroines of Olympus retells the tales of 50 classic characters, plucking the threads of their lives from the myriad narratives in which they have appeared and weaving th...
Gothic: An Illustrated History - Hardcover
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by Roger Luckhurst (Author)A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an unprecedented look at the ways this uncanny style has manifested itself through architecture, literature, film, art, video games, and more. From the works of Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hof...
Great Dialogues of Plato - Paperback
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by Plato (Author), W. H. D. Rouse (Translator), Matthew S. Santirocco (Introduction by)"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of Platonic philosophy. Translated by ...
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life - Hardcover
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by Ben Crystal (Author), David Crystal (With)Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen. 'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.' 'Make not your thoughts your prisons.' 'Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.' 'And I have heard it said, unbidden guests are often welcomest when they're gone.' With a quote for every day ...
Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn about Human Nature from Shakespeare's Great Plays - Hardcover
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by Philip G. Zimbardo (Author), Robert L. Johnson (Author)William Shakespeare has undergone psychological analyses ever since Freud diagnosed Hamlet with an Oedipus complex. But now, two psychologists propose to turn the tables by telling how Shakespeare himself understood human behavior and the innermost workings of the human mind. Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn About Human Nature From Shakespeare's Great Plays, is an interdisciplinary project that bridges psychologi...
Hotel Splendide - Paperback
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by Ludwig Bemelmans (Author)"Truly a great book--unique, invaluable and unapproachable as the gold standard of the genre... Bemelmans got there first, more frequently, and better." --Anthony Bourdain Acerbic, colorful, and spirited stories from a bygone era: behind the scenes in a grand NY hotel, from the author of the Madeline books Picture David Sedaris writing Kitchen Confidential about the Ritz in New York in the 1920s, which had the style and charm of The Grand Budapest Hotel... In this...
The Wilderness - Paperback
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by Ayşeg?l Savaş (Author)A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A friend lends a book that sug...
7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 - Paperback
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by Touko Amekawa (Author), Wan Hachipisu (Illustrator)Reincarnation drama gets sent into overdrive in this tale full of romance and scheming that inspired the anime--and don't miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas! Being reborn once may sound impressive, but Rishe is already on her seventh time around! She has had all kinds of excitement in her previous lives, from peddling goods as a merchant to locking blades as a knight, so now she's determined to kick back and enjoy. But to savo...
Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back - Hardcover
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by Li Zhichang (Author), Ruth W. Dunnell (Editor), Ruth W. Dunnell (Translator)The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious name Changchun) made an arduous three-year round-trip journey from north China to the Hindu Kush in 1221-23 in response t...
Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style - Paperback
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by Joshua Javier Guzm?n (Author)How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style-as a cultural form and sensibility-becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of the 1960s begin to fade. Guzmá...
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