Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading, Hardcover - Nora C. Benedict

A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges's efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) stan...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Annalise GriceIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 256Publication date...

Reducere. Remarkable portraits of precarious cultures from Mexico to Indonesia and TibetAmerican social documentary photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges (b...

A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an imag...

Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped Who are eva...

An experiential guide to the wisdom preserved in Europe's far north - Includes shamanic journeys to connect with deities and your ancestral shamans...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The internationa...

DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

Reducere. Although today associated exclusively with Islam, Iran has in fact played an unparalleled role within all the world religions, injecting Iranian id...

Reducere. Have you always been curious about the mysteries surrounding the Norse Futhark runes? Do you believe that learning how to read runes will help you ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page -- as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Throu...

Reducere. The classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbol...

Reducere. New conditions will arise. A new trading public will be born. However, the old cycle of rallies and reactions will roll on. Although originally pub...

Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, o...

Reducere. "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age of dinosaurs to the ...

Reducere. Read and Reflect on Scripture alongside C. S. Lewis.C. S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the...

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America. Slave tr...

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, ...

Reducere. The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important...

Reducere. Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best Friends Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catas...

It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. Here, Diarmuid O Grada shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted ...

Reducere. Ilustratii de Carll Cneut O povata palpitanta si jucausa despre puterea imaginatiei, despre grija pe care ne-o poarta parintii si despre importanta...

Reducere. DescriptionVisitors come to Charity's friendly little inn to escape their ordinary lives. But FBI Agent Roman DeWinter knows something ugly is goin...

Reducere. How military technology has transformed the world The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

Reducere. Traders caught at the crossroads of traditional, proven, trading techniques - and new online tools and methods - have struggled to find a way of bl...

Reducere. Saint Benedict Press is a proud publisher of the New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE), the first major update to the New American Bible (NAB)...

Reducere. The blues revival of the early 1960s brought new life to a seminal genre of American music and inspired a vast new world of singers, songwriters, a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas P. MoneyThe great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of o...

DescriptionCornelia and her parents move in to a new house. Bored, she is sent to play "outside." She discovers a hidden treehouse and a boy her ow...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really kn...

Reducere. Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass spectator spo...

DescriptionBehind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, ...

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

DescriptionSome events that transform a nation are frozen in time. Others pass with little public awareness, and we only appreciate their momentous...

Reducere. A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainhead...