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Jebel Marra
ISBN: PB: 9781905583546, Carcanet, December 2014
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors... all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this...
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Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future
ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...
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Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...
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Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...
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£36,00
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Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...
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£71,50
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Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
ISBN: PB: 9780226176697, ISBN: HB: 9780226176550, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings
The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Pow!
ISBN: PB: 9780857422217, ISBN: HB: 9780857420763, Seagull Books, December 2014
440 pp., 25x15 cm
A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama – in which nearly everyone dies – unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar...
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Black Diamond
ISBN: HB: 9780857422224, Seagull Books, December 2014
312 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg, goes on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in her town. Her reasons are per...
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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground
ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia.  The anthology brings toget...
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Tombe
ISBN: HB: 9780857420251, Seagull Books, December 2014
284 pp., 25x15 cm
"In 1968-1969 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides", wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dream o...
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