Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone, Hardcover

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Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these play...

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David R. Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of l...

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This book examines urban planning and infrastructure development in Japanese cities after the second world war as a way to mitigate the risks of di...

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the hear...

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A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

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A well-written book that is a curious reminder that our in-between life with all its information lies within our subconscious.Dolores has accumulat...

A darkly funny tale about a man who wishes to seem more interesting to people by having himself killed by a contract killer. Everything is going to...

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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

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