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Fiction

Dangerous Recipe

Svasti G.

ISBN: PB: 9786167339825, Prestel Publishing, River Books, April 2018
312 pp., 20.5x14.5 cm, illustrations throughout

Celebrity chef Corran Brook scours the globe for the world's best recipes and foods, for his ambitious compendium, "The Story of Food". But when travelling through Asia and chancing on a rare and extraordinary meal he cannot decipher, his struggle to...

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Literary Criticism

Danger of Romance Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226540269, ISBN: HB: 9780226540122, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular roma...

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Literary Criticism

Design

Designing English

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244751, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 92 colour illus.

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript?...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Gallope Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Difficult Death The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jensen Morten Hoi, Wood James

ISBN: HB: 9780300218930, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. H...

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Poetry

Diary of the Last Man

Minhinnick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781784103484, Carcanet, April 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The opening poem sequence, "Diary of the Last Man", sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its errat...

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Poetry

Diary of Our Fatal Illness

Bardes Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226468020, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
64 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man's son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a p...

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Philosophy

Death Be Not Proud The Art of Holy Attention

Marno David

ISBN: HB: 9780226415970, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next".Death Be Not Proud" explores the precedent...

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Fiction

Death of Sheherzad

Husain Intizar

ISBN: HB: 9780857423931, Seagull Books, March 2017
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead ance...

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Sign Language

Literary Criticism

Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning A Comparative Perspective

De Clerck Goedele A. M.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686702, Gallaudet University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 illus., 3 figures

Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of l...

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