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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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Banker for All Seasons Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.
ISBN: PB: 9780857426406, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 20x14.4 cm
During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank... the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce Internation...
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Bad Words Selected Short Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780857424761, Seagull Books, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I now no longer use the better words" Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga esca...
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Baghdad, Adieu Selected Poems of Memory and Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780857425447, Seagull Books, October 2018
264 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Ar...
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Blue Jewellery
ISBN: HB: 9780857425379, Seagull Books, October 2018
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"'Blue jewellery" is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women's bodies, inflicted by the men around them....
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Beyond the Stars, Part 1 The Boy from Riga
ISBN: PB: 9780857424884, Seagull Books, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 72 halftones, 1 map
Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including "Strike", "October",...
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Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...
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Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense Two Novellas
ISBN: PB: 9780857425010, Seagull Books, February 2018
128 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm
Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wake of the Pakistani army's attacks on Bengali people. "Blue Venom" and "Forbidden Incense", two novel...
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Bergeners
ISBN: HB: 9780857424426, Seagull Books, August 2017
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Bergeners" is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, No...
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Blumenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...
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