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Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
ISBN: HB: 9780857426512, Seagull Books, March 2019
228 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions...
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Grimm's Fairy Tales Illustrated Classic Editions
ISBN: HB: 9781435166875, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, November 2018
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illus.
A collection of the well-known fairy tales by the Brothers' Grimm.
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Tales of Norse Mythology Illustrated Classic Editions
ISBN: HB: 9781435166769, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, October 2018
286 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illus.
A collection of mythological stories from the Vikings, including gods and goddesses such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki.
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"Detecting" Patrick Modiano Yale French Studies, Number 133
ISBN: PB: 9780300228892, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This volume of "Yale French Studies" offers new perspectives on the work of the 2014 Nobel laureate in literature, Patrick Modiano. Including critical reassessments of themes that have informed, indeed haunted, Modiano's fiction from the outset, this...
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Rough Breath Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784103729, Carcanet, March 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A substantial selection drawn from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing.
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Gray's Anatomy Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435167919, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, March 2018
1280 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.
"Gray's Anatomy" is a phenomenally well-known title and with good reason; it is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and names, Gray's lets the natural beauty and grace of the body's interconnected systems and structures s...
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Fort Necessity
ISBN: PB: 9780226533766, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...
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Telling It Like It Wasn't The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9780226512419, ISBN: HB: 9780226512389, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives a...
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£79,00
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Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
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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Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132
ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....
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