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Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...
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£16,00
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Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin
ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...
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Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...
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Silences of Hammerstein
ISBN: PB: 9780857427038, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 64 halftones
"The Silences of Hammerstein", the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences...
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Strength of Soul
ISBN: PB: 9781940939728, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
166 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Naomi Raquel Enright's "Strength of Soul" proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and th...
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Anarchy's Brief Summer The Life and Death of Buanaventura Durruti
ISBN: HB: 9780857426000, Seagull Books, December 2018
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its "brie...
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£21,99
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Diversifying Diplomacy My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar
ISBN: HB: 9781612349503, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos, 6 illus.
Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas and elsewhere. Some have called this development the "Hillary Effect." But well before Hillary Clinton, our most recent female secretary of state, there was Madeleine Albright, the firs...
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Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen
ISBN: PB: 9781849049344, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing...
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Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin
ISBN: PB: 9781849049337, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
208 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders...
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Distant Intimacy A Friendship in the Age of the Internet
ISBN: HB: 9780300186949, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least for correspondents in the twenty-first centur...
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