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under the aegis of a winged mind
ISBN: PB: 9781938769580, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police...
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£14,00
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Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...
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£18,00
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Unfinished
ISBN: HB: 9780857427359, Seagull Books, April 2020
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four women – seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria, and Hanna's daughter Anna – are ordered by the new Czech authorities to leave their homes and assemble with other Germans at the...
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£21,99
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Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
ISBN: HB: 9780300226621, Yale University Press, November 2019
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Award-winning author Antonio Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty?seven months in Angola...
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£18,99
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Upright Revolution Or Why Humans Walk Upright
ISBN: HB: 9780857426475, Seagull Books, September 2019
48 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in "The Upright Revolution". Blending myth and folklore with an...
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£14,99
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Under the Aleppo Sun
ISBN: HB: 9780857425485, Seagull Books, October 2018
64 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As the Syrian war has raged over the past several years, the world has watched in horror. And that horror is particularly concentrated on the city of Aleppo, which has been subject to almost incomparable devastation and deprivation. Aleppo is Alice...
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£12,99
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Unearthly Toys
ISBN: PB: 9781784105389, Carcanet, February 2018
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This David Lynch-esque debut from Ned Denny taps into the ethereal, transcendental and the "second psychedelic revolution".
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£12,99
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Unpacking My Library Artists and Their Books
ISBN: HB: 9780300216981, Yale University Press, October 2017
184 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.
Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin's seminal 1931 essay, the "Unpacking My Library" series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today's leading thinkers. "Artists and Their Books" showcases the person...
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£16,99
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Unlikely Designs
ISBN: PB: 9780226472379, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, "Unlikely Designs" draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charle...
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£13,50
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Uncomfortable Situations Emotion between Science and the Humanities
ISBN: HB: 9780226485034, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line drawing
What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offe...
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£30,00
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