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Art keeps good alive in the worst of times. In the face of ugliness, pain, and death, it's art that has the power to open us all to a healing imagining of new possibility; it's art that whispers to the collective that even in the ashes of loss, life always grows again. That's why right now, in...

During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly...

Find inspiration to affect global change with stories and perspectives from people the planet needs now: 25 Black and Brown scientists and activists. From climate change and industrial waste to social injustice and poverty, the challenges that our world faces are daunting. To make matters worse...

The new book from the viral sensation Instagram account Lockdown Love Stories: anonymous confessions navigating romance, heartbreak, friendships and sex A mosaic of human connections in all their shades – from breaking up to making out, quiet contentment to agonising loneliness, sexting to...

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been...

'SHE is essential for your bookshelf' Stylist She: A Celebration of Renegade Women by Harriet Hall is the must-have book for women everywhere. Perfect for fans of Caitlin Moran, Lena Dunham and Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls. SHE is a love letter to all the women who have thrown out the...

A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability. Through twenty-five pieces, the writers of Moving Mountains offer a vision of nature that encompasses the close up, the microscopic, and the vast. From a single falling raindrop to the...

The Imperial War Museum archived Anthony Smelt's personal papers because he spent three years of the Second World War interned in Batu Lintang, a camp in Borneo. He had been working as a civil servant in British North Borneo until the Japanese invaded at the beginning of 1942. In those years of...

A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive...

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth - that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn't exist without the other. German physicist Werner...

A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on a tour of the monasteries of the Middle East by presenting the rich variety of poetry and prose associated with each monastery. Starting with Baghdad, readers are taken up the Tigris...

A must-have for any bibliophile, this beautifully embroidered journal contains 192 pages of high-quality ruled paper for all your journaling needs. CONVENIENT SIZE: This 5.75 x 8.25–inch journal is a comfortable size to journal anywhere and easy to pack in a tote bag or backpack alongside your...

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren...

From the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction comes an apocalyptic and caustically funny novel about the power of friendship in a war-torn world that NPR calls “rich and resonant.” Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither...

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The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers In Trailblazers of Black British Theatre, Stephen Bourne celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the...

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential...

'A mighty, panoramic history… Firnhaber-Baker does a real service for those with an interest in France and England alike by providing a dexterous and engrossing account, a treasury for anyone with an interest in the royal, political and religious worlds of the high medieval period' Daily...

The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in...

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The story of these six Chinese survivors, an extraordinary tale of survival against all odds Steven Schwankert thought there were no new Titanic stories to be told – then he found the Six. When Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, less than half of those aboard survived. Among these survivors...

Книжка розповідає про тих, хто оберігав найбільший скарб українців – національну історичну пам’ять. Одні рятували її, коли наші музеї грабували в роки німецької та совєтської окупації, інші зберігали її в нашій пісні, звичаях і традиціях, ще інші берегли від забуття й осквернення дорогі для нас...

Складні часи потребують сміливих, але водночас і зважених дій. У моменти, коли країна стикається з небаченими досі викликами, різко зростає роль лідерів, які готові брати на себе відповідальність і вчасно ухвалювати потрібні, нехай навіть непопулярні, рішення. Перед лідерами постає безліч...

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«Особисті речі. Розповідь про одяг у концтаборах і таборах смерті» польської письменниці, журналістки та культурної антропологині Кароліни Сулєй — це унікальне дослідження, присвячене життю в концтаборах через призму одягу та особистих речей, які залишалися з людьми навіть у найжорстокіших...

Відомий військовий історик розповідає про сплетіння доль трьох найвпливовіших генералів періоду Другої світової війни, про те, які труднощі та перешкоди довелося долати видатним полководцям на шляху до своєї слави, досліджує непорозуміння і суперечки, які супроводжували Паттона Монтгомері та...

Видатні полководці та воєначальники — невіддільна складова світової історії та історичної пам’яті людства. Ця книжка присвячена найвизначнішим полководцям Середньовіччя та початку Нового часу. Ярослав Мудрий та Володимир Мономах, Данило Галицький і Костянтин Іванович Острозький, Петро...

There's something for everybody in this brilliantly baffling collection to keep listeners of all ages in suspense. The greatest ever selection of fictional detectives, all together in one superb CD collection. Find Sherlock Holmes with his long suffering colleague, Dr. Watson in The Dying...

This book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in the still largely male-dominated tech-world in twenty candid interviews. It highlights the varied life and career stories that lead these women to the top positions in the technology industry that they...

Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Rielly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories. All of these...

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Gem State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered...

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s...

In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Aristotelian, Platonic, Galenic, and astrological...

Microchips. Genetic modification of plants. Cloning. Advances in technology promise to shape our lives more profoundly than ever before. Exciting new discoveries in reproductive, genetic, and information technologies all serve to call into question the immutability of the boundaries between...

Honorable Mention of the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Two collections by an important Asian American writer -- Camp Notes and Other Poeems and Desert Run: Poems and Stories -- return to print in one volume. Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle...

A deeply personal meditation on history and memory, place and displacement by a major writer Born in a Jamaica still under British rule, the acclaimed and influential writer Michelle Cliff embraced her many identities, shaped by her experiences with the forces of colonialism and oppression: a...

'A generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood, family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that enable the big connections with the flow of the world.' - Mark Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures 'A meander through the seasons that is filled with lyrical gifts and new ways of...

In the spirit of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, Nino Cipri delivers a collection of surreal short stories spotlighting queer and transgender characters. *Author tour in Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, New England, and elsewhere including potential appearances at The Raven...

An anthology of 20 original stories about deadly books from the world's best crime writers. 'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 20 specially commissioned stories about deadly books from the world's best crime writers. By turns...

This exciting new book explores the history of major mental disorders by looking at a wide range of historical and contemporary figures that have experienced mental illness. It discusses changing perceptions of mental illness and the treatments used at different historical periods from antiquity...

In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 35 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-depth look behind the scenes of their lives and their companies. In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 40 creative...

Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the...

An unprecedented anthology of contemporary Polish drama, Loose Screws brings together nine previously untranslated plays by prominent playwrights who have emerged in rapidly changing postcommunist landscapes. The plays expose ways in which individual and social violence impinge upon each other...

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry, and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine Humanities Underground, provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings together select pieces on such diverse issues as...

This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven’s songs. All the composer’s songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into...

The story of the Brontës is told through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlotte’s writing desk and the manuscripts it contained to the brass collar worn by Emily’s dog, Keeper, each object opens a window onto the sisters’ world, their...

'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown. From the East End of...

Evocative, entertaining, nostalgic and informative; "Trams" is a fascinating anthology of some of the best stories and descriptive articles written about a vehicle that was once queen of the road. The book covers many aspects of the tramcar, in the days of horse, steam, cable and electric power...

A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets. A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an...

Expanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship, West of the Border examines the writings of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Native, African, Asian, and Anglo American frontier writers. Expanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship...

Expanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship, West of the Border examines the writings of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Native, African, Asian, and Anglo American frontier writers. Expanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship...

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent’s portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects’ lives...

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have physical strength, but they also have mental strengths and skills. Superheroes tend to have intelligence and detection skills which allow them to develop...

Featuring the critically acclaimed 3D comics from Brian Haberlin’s Anomaly studios together between two covers CAPTAIN WONDER, THE MARKED, SONATA, HELLCOP and FASTER THAN LIGHT plus extras and as a one-time only bonus we’ll even toss in 3D GLASSES as part of the deal! Face it, friend, you’re...

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Science Fiction and Fantasy with Maximum DaveThe history of science fiction and fantasy is littered with stories by Davids of distinction. Now, for the first time, an anthology by people named David, for everyone.Read along as editor David Afsharirad guides you through the strange, wonderous...

The first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were 'small' men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the...

The first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were 'small' men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the...

The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical...

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To commemorate HCI's 40th anniversary, many of its most loved and revered authors have contributed personal stories of lifechanging events in Success Stories from the Heart. Poignant and inspiring from cover to cover, these authors generously share their personal journeys to find truth, the...

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This instant New York Times bestseller is an “inspiring and useful” (The Washington Post) guide to the art of leadership from David Gergen—former White House adviser to four US presidents, CNN analyst, and founder of the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. As nations careen from one crisis to...

Anthology of short excerpts from the writings of more than 50 famous literary and historical figures on the subject of railways and rail journeys around the world - Bill Bryson, Agatha Christie, William Dalrymple, Peter Fleming, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Eric Newby, Christopher Portway...

This book uses Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy to explain the appeal of tragedy and explore the non-cognitive value of aesthetic engagement. This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and...

‘I can resist everything except temptation’ Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and quotable man in history. His genius manifested itself in his plays and poetry but he is equally famous for his penetrating wit, humour and brilliant repartee. Wilde boasted that he could talk spontaneously on...

For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtually unknown and uncelebrated. Two lost their lives retrieving vital German codebooks from a sinking U-boat. The third survived the war, only to die in...

From the West Indies to Shanghai, this collection of contemporary short stories opens up a new world of Dutch writing to English language readers. Subjects range from poetry to paranoia, power and desire as the reader is taken on a voyage around the globe, or focussed on a claustrophobic...

The University of East Anglia is proud to announce its new anthologies of work from the prose (including life writing), poetry and scriptwriting strands from their world-renowned creative writing MA. UEA Scriptwriting Anthology 2012 includes an interview with British playwright Steve Waters and...

With a foreword by Costa Prize-winner, Andrew Miller, the UEA Creative Writing Prose Anthology 2012 showcases over 30 talented new writers from the Prose and Life Writing courses. Over the decades, the UEA course has produced many successful, well-loved and prize-winning authors, such as Ian...

Introduced by scriptwriter Steve Waters, here ten scripts for the stage and screen showcase a variety of techniques and styles, each demonstrating high standards of creativity, craft and application. Throughout the anthology, characters are not necessarily who they seem, events can turn in a...

With a foreword by UEA alumnus and novelist Joe Dunthorne and an introduction by Henry Sutton, this anthology showcases some thirty new names for the future. The world-renowned UEA programme's alumni includes Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, Tracy Chevalier, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Boyne, Kathryn...

Athlete and TV presenter Sally Gunnell, actress Joan Sims, singer Billy Bragg, footballer Bobby Moore, chef Jamie Oliver, author John Fowles, film director Basil Dearden, playwright Sarah Kane, and the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin are among personalities through the ages who have been born in...

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This is the third volume of The Gerald Kraak Anthology, The Heart of the Matter. With the prize ceremony linked to Africa Day, the publication of the anthology is tied to the Pride Month of June and the celebrations of the LGBTQI+ community which occur across the globe. The Heart of the Matter...

The remarkable stories of some of the bravest and most dangerous women who ever lived Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. – espionage is not just a boys’ game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium...

Future war may be future hell — but there’ll also be futurehilarity. War, as the general said, is hell, but it also has its humorousmoments, though the humor may be grim, and you “had to be there” toget the joke. War is likely to continue into the future, and into space, nomatter how many...

TOP AUTHORS, including 8 New York Times best-selling authors, imaginesports in intergalactic, Olympic-like competitions of the future. George R.R.Martin, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, MikeResnick, Seanan McGuire, David Формат: Скан PDf...

Collected short fiction from multiple bestseller Michael Z. Williamson.After a brutal car crash, a disabled young man beats all odds to pursue hisdream of crewing the first starship. Outnumbered and outgunned, a Freeholdwarship must use guile, expert maneuvering and sheer courage to survive...

WELCOME TO THE MANY WORLDS OF BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ERIC FLINTKnown for his New York Times best-selling alternate history novels, Flint is equally a master of shorter forms, and this second large volume gathers more of Flint’s shorter works. Includes: several stories and a short novel set in...

Collected short fiction from multiple bestseller Michael Z. Williamson. After a brutal car crash, a disabled young man beats all odds to pursue his dream of crewing the first starship. Outnumbered and outgunned, a Freehold warship must use guile, expert maneuvering and sheer courage to survive...

From Keith Laumer, a titan of science fiction adventure and the creator ofthe legendary Bolo series — a wry vision of a future full ofamazing develeopments, but a future where old problems come back to haunthumanity in strange new ways — this action-packed volume contains afull-length novel and...

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Since 1995, there have been four deaths following fights in Britain and forty around the world. In Death of a Boxer, Pete Carvill sets out to explore the psychology of those who choose to fight and what draws them towards this most dangerous of pursuits. But to write about the death of fighters...

While the heroic exploits of ‘The Few’ of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of ‘The Many’ of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night after night, the bomber crews ranged across Europe seeking out and attacking targets in an all-out endeavour to undermine the German war effort...

The colourful and complex history of the Kings and Queens of Scotland The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The...

Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By the mid-80s Alain Prost had firmly established himself as leader of the F1 pack. Winning Grands Prix almost at will, the French ace radiated...

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James Joyce’s luminous short story collection of ordinary Dubliners’ lives, featuring “one of the greatest short stories ever written” (T. S. Eliot), now newly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce’s collection of fifteen short stories portrays the lives of...

A boundary-pushing science fiction epic, perfect for fans of We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Tom King and Elsa Charretier’s Love Everlasting. On board the interplanetary ark Dodona, life is strictly regimented and controlled, functioning according to the edicts...

This book treats the literary work of Julia Augusta Webster within the context of Websters participation in nineteenth century British aestheticism. Websters personal life, her experience as a member of the Suffrage Society and her tenure on the London School Board, as well as her position as...

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. Saint-Domingue was the...

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. Saint-Domingue was the...

American Working-Class Literature is an edited collection containing over 300 pieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in a broadly historical fashion, with texts and grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class...

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark...

FAITH WILL BE TESTED. TRUST SHATTERED. THREE BESTSELLING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE WRITERS REUNITE FOR NOVELLAS OF DEADLY BETRAYAL. Dee Henderson - "Betrayed" After serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit, Janelle Roberts is finally freed. But the truth is still...

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A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman. “Imparting some piece of yourself—any part—is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation,” writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both...

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi. “Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the...

This book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books...

Explores the lives of over 600 Jewish physicians and pharmacists in medieval Muslim lands Offers a unique insight into the life of Jewish physicians and pharmacists, their families and communities in medieval Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Africa, Sicily and Andalusia Shows how Jewish...

America’s Literary Legends is a concise, yet truly distinctive and comprehensive review of 50 authors and poets who shaped American literature from the 1600s through the mid-twentieth century. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, this anthology takes a fresh approach to...

For fans of Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and Black Mirror, THE ONE HAND AND THE SIX FINGERS is a thrilling graphic novel that will keep you guessing until the very end. "Two of the hottest writers in comics — RAM V and DAN WATTERS — have teamed up with artists LAURENCE CAMPBELL and SUMIT...

One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this vivid compilation of his most influential speeches and writings. One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amílcar Cabral's...

Eerie tales of Japanese goblins, ghosts and magic—beautifully illustrated by contemporary Japanese yokai artist Sakyu! This collection of fifteen chilling tales brings to life a world where the supernatural and earthly realms are seamlessly entwined. The ghosts, goblins and magical creatures in...

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When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rubric “Constant Reader,” she created what is...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the...

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"A stunning guided tour through the real and imaginary landscapes of Sodom." -Jenny Diski The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has inspired countless literary visions. The city has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tournier, among others. This work contains an...

Imagine accounts of the Trojan War from those who actually fought there, long before Homer wrote The Iliad. Dictys's A Journal of the Trojan War and Dares's The Fall of Troy: A History tell in gritty detail the bloody siege of the fabled, doomed city. Intricate politics and memorable...

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson’s Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941–1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany (1944–1945). He utilises extensive personal...

Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. Whilst the technical details of the aircraft and weapons involved are, of course, crucial to our understanding of the...

Four inspirational tales of Essex resilience intertwine to make an unmissable world premiere by the region’s most exciting playwrights. The Essex Princess by Anne Odeke It’s 1908 and Joanna’s planning to provoke the attention of Southend and the whole of the nation, by becoming the first black...

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Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugène Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography...

In a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor Robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s woman...

Winner of the Moore Prize 2021 'A beautiful, moving and important book' - Simon Reeve Veronica is a teenager when civil war erupts in South Sudan, the world's youngest country. Lonely and friendless after the death of her father, she finds solace in her first boyfriend, and together they flee...

Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical...

“Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres.”—World Literature Today Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers...

The Havah’s Journey trilogy—Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, As One Must, One Can—abridged into one illustrated volume with bonus stories. No one can forget the bravery and perseverance of Havah Cohen Gitterman, the Jewish heroine of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’s captivating family...

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city’s fall should Paris bring Helen as his wife, as well as the death of several of Troy’s heroes and her family. The classic myth turns into much more in...

A powerful collection giving voice to the mental health struggles experienced by people of colour. 'An invaluable collection' BBC 'A seminal body of work that centres our voices authentically and unapologetically' Melissa Cummings-Quarry, co-author of Grown and co-founder of Black Girls Book...

Get more nyuks for your bucks with The Three Stooges Vol 2 Graphic Novel collection! America's favorite funnymen are back with the first comic book series that captures the likeness of Moe, Larry, and Curly! These all new adventures present The Three Stooges unique brand of wit and slapstick...

Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks...

The Havah’s Journey trilogy—Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, As One Must, One Can—abridged into one illustrated volume with bonus stories. No one can forget the bravery and perseverance of Havah Cohen Gitterman, the Jewish heroine of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’s captivating family...

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “the Great Stink” across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise...

Poetry / Fiction / Art / Aphorisms. American Homes incorporates poetry, prose, and various schematic devices, including dozens of illustrations by the artist Jacob Heustis, to create a cracked narrative of the domestic spaces we inhabit. " "Ridge's book explores the contradictions inherent in...

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films, created with composer Isaak Dunaevskii, were the most popular Russian cinema of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on studio documents, press materials, and interviews with surviving film crew members, The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov...

Poetry / Fiction / Art / Aphorisms. American Homes incorporates poetry, prose, and various schematic devices, including dozens of illustrations by the artist Jacob Heustis, to create a cracked narrative of the domestic spaces we inhabit. " "Ridge's book explores the contradictions inherent in...

Brings together more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism for students and teachers of the genre. Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science...

While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted "Dutch" Van Kirk exemplified what Life magazine meant when...

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines. For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of memoirs, interviews, novels, documentaries, and feature films. Yet the men and women who served in less visible roles, never engaging in physical...

Since 1979 Blueline has been quietly binding together literature that reflects the distinctive Adirondack spirit. These poems and stories, collected in one volume for the first time, reveal an accumulation of regional writing that forms a contemporary history of the Adirondacks. This history not...

In a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor Robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s woman...

Every story has a hero, every hero has a superpower, and when used with intentionality, sport is an incredible superpower in the fight for gender equality.Strong Women, Better World celebrates the global superheroes who use the potent mix of sport and education to kick down social, cultural, or...

The history of New Texas, the Texas we know today—oil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itself—begins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly over two decades ten...

The fifth and final volume in the Colonels in Blue series, this book covers Civil War Union colonels who commanded regiments of the U.S. Colored Troops, the U.S. Regular Army, the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Sharpshooters. Colonels who served as staff officers or with special units, such as...

Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who helped to shape the Peach State. Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and...

In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic Western town of Dodge City, Kansas. In Dragging Wyatt Earp essayist Robert Rebein explores what it means to grow up in, leave, and ultimately return to the iconic...

Before film made them international comedy legends, the MarxBrothers developed their comic skills on stage for twenty-fiveyears. In Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers onStage, Robert S. Bader offers the first comprehensive history ofthe foursome’s hardscrabble early years honing...

In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It’s delicious and it’s got the kick of a mule, especially as Als swirls into his mix...

4 ‘Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.’ Gilbert Parker Love can truly make you feel out of this world. This delightful book, packed with swoony statements and heartfelt quotations from romantics old and new, is the perfect way to say, ‘I love you to the...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of Canadian authors were revealed to have faked the identities that made them famous. What is extraordinary about these writers is that they actually "became," in everyday life, characters they had themselves invented. Many of their works were...

This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East...

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A powerful and uplifting anthology giving voice to mental health issues experienced by People of Colour in Britain. 'Compassionate and hopeful' - Pragya Agarwal, author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias 'This beautiful curation will be a catalyst to our healing and emancipation' - Seyi...

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"Ronald’s detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for granted." — Camden New Journal/Islington Tribune/West End Extra The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever...

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled – witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources, Ronald Ridley has compiled a vivid collage-portrait of Rome through...

An in-depth reading of the meditation on the relation between literary value and social identity in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with the question of why they should write at all, when the world urges them to devote...

What can the life writing of post-famine Irish immigrants tell us about Irish diasporic memory? Of Memory and the Misplaced considers the endurance and nature of Irish American memory across the twentieth century. Guided by 30 memoirs written between 1900 and 1970, Sarah O'Brien shows the...

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive of...

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A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha. In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that...

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У книзі представлені 17 біографій гетьманів — вірних і самовідданих проповідників і захисників ідеї Козацької держави. Втіленню цієї ідеї в життя вони присвятили усі свої таланти, поставивши за мету вибороти державність для українського народу. Діяти цим гетьманам довелося в найскладніших...

Є постаті, які кардинально змінюють хід історії. Часто їхня доля складається трагічно. Ця книжка — не тільки прискіпливе дослідження останніх миттєвостей життя таких людей. Це і портрет епохи, в якій вони жили, воювали та мирилися, кохали й зраджували, народжували дітей… Знамениті монархи...

Ця книжка продовжує серію «Історій про життя 50 українців і українок», де ми знайомимося з видатними українськими діячами. Тут на вас чекають біографії ще 50 постатей, які зробили культурний, політичний чи науковий внесок в історію України та світу. Це українці й українки, чиї життєві шляхи...

Книга 1. Історії про життя 50 українців та українок Ця книжка познайомить читачів із видатними українцями: чоловіками та жінками, які зробили вагомий внесок у розвиток нашої держави, науки та мистецтва. Історія кожного з них цікава й унікальна: чиясь надихає, чиясь змушує замислитися, чиясь...

Ця книжка описує бурхливе життя, кохання та небезпечні місії жінок-воїнів ізраїльської спецслужби «Моссад». Приголомшливі подвиги цих сильних, сміливих жінок доводять, що вони ні в чому не поступаються чоловікам, а часто навіть перевершують їх. Крім ворогів нації, їм доводилося боротися з...

Відомий військовий історик розповідає про сплетіння доль трьох найвпливовіших генералів періоду Другої світової війни, про те, які труднощі та перешкоди довелося долати видатним полководцям на шляху до своєї слави, досліджує непорозуміння і суперечки, які супроводжували Паттона Монтгомері та...