Objects of Desire: Stories, Hardcover - Clare Sestanovich

Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new ...

Eleven stories of sly and disarming power, about womanhood and families - an astonishing debut by a young New Yorker editor and bold new literary v...

Eleven stories of sly and disarming power, about womanhood and families - an astonishing debut by a young New Yorker editor and bold new literary v...

Shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life. This book examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized...

Beware...this book is cursed These strange but true stories of the world's most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buf...

Reducere. Indulge your HEART'S DESIRE with your most beloved authors in this very special collection. Selected from the heartwarming anthology Everlasting Lo...

DescriptionWith 192+ illustrations, The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions introduces readers to the fascinating, humorous, and often for...

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-...

Reducere. Feeling like your French isn't progressing as fast as you'd like? Not understanding idioms or cultural references? Wanting to learn real life vocab...

Reducere. Do you want your kids to be able to tell you anything? Are you looking for a way to prevent your kids from keeping secrets that could be harmful to...

Reducere. Spanning a variety of genres--fantasy, science fiction, horror--and time periods, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's exceptional debut collection features shor...

Reducere. Fantasy of Flight is the second action-packed title in The Tainted Accords. My veil is gone and I need it back. ***********************************...

Reducere. DescriptionFantasy of Freedom is the final action-packed title in The Tainted Accords series. This is the heaviest the veil has ever felt. But I am...

Reducere. Shock Value is the brutally honest story of one webcam model's sexual encounters with her online clients. In a world of sexual deviants, "Angelina"...

A fascinating insight into the history of shipwrecks, this book is packed full of stories of survival and tragedy, innovation and courage.Publisher...

When thrusted back almost a century and a half, subsequent to being fragmented from his tribe, tracked down by tenacious bandits and then tragicall...

A moving anthology of stories from various contributors inspired by objects from the First World War, illustrated by Jim Kay. Authors include: Mich...

DescriptionCo-published with the Royal Mint Museum. War has shaped currencies, creating, abolishing and moulding them. By providing the means throu...

Level 3: Stories of Courage Book and Multi-ROM with MP3 Pack - Clare Gray

Reducere. Fantasy of Frost is the first action-packed title in The Tainted Accords. Sometimes it takes death to show you how to live. ***********************...

Meet the MacKay Banshees...Katriona - Her last memory is of her violent death, and now she's screaming for vengeance. He's a Laird with enough sins...

Reducere. A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from ...

Reducere. A lavishly illustrated and engaging selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa.Abou...

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of...

A powerful critique of the stories that feminists tell about the past four decades of Western feminist theory.

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

Reducere. Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive r...

Reducere. Daisy DeVoe has left her abusive husband, her father has been pinched for bootlegging, and she's embarrassed by her rural Kentucky roots. But on th...

Reducere. A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Gravity affects ev...

Reducere. Feeling like your French isn't progressing as fast as you'd like? Not understanding idioms or cultural references? Wanting to learn real life vocab...

A humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside from bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh.

DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

Reducere. Four billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you've never seen it ...

In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars ...

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. Description"My memory is etched with a clear image of how that bird swung into view and hung over me, suspended like an angel, so starkly black and...

Reducere. In Force, Drive, Desire, Rudolf Bernet develops a philosophical foundation of psychoanalysis focusing on human drives. Rather than simply drawing u...

DescriptionWhat do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, bec...

Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeol...

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 ...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultu...

Hunt for ghosts, ghouls, and more delightfully spooky ogres in this adorable Halloween-themed Look & Find book. Loaded with illustrations, it provi...

Publisher: Site ProjectsAuthor(s): Clare QualmannIllustration(s): 46 x colour photographsNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 229 x...

Reducere. The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim's two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North...

Reducere. My forbidden husband.I kissed my father's best friend and it kind of didn't go well.Not only because he's eighteen years older than me-but he also ...

Reducere. Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregard...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

Reducere. When investigating the mysteries of Chicago's past, it's helpful to examine the physical evidence. From a fiddle played by a Chicago pioneer and a ...

What is a desire? Our wants must often compete with our beliefs about what we ought to do. This book defends "desire as belief", a view in which de...