Provocations: Collected Essays

DescriptionMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights o...

Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.

Reducere. For twelve years, Alexis Kennedy has been writing some of the most original and intelligent narrative games of the last decade - Fallen London, Sun...

Publisher: AutonomediaAuthor(s): Robert GluckNumber of pages: 384Collection: Semiotext(e) / Active AgentsPublication date: 2016Dimensions: 162 x 26...

Reducere. DescriptionMy life will be judged worthwhile to the extent that it is of use to others. For this reason, I wish to tell of the things which have ha...

A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists.

Reducere. Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written wit...

Publisher: Nightboat BooksAuthor(s): Douglas CraseNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 222 x 36Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of re...

Reducere. Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out i...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Peter HandkeTranslator: Ralph ManheimNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 218...

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical stat...

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Hanif KureishiNumber of pa...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Carole HillenbrandIllustration(s): 36 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

Reducere. DescriptionScholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, ...

A collection of essays from Colquhoun's career in architectural theory.Publisher: Black Dog PressAuthor(s): Alan ColquhounIllustration(s): 180 b/w ...

Reducere. A collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay,...

Collected Essays of Thomas Troward includes 15 essays written by Troward throughout his later life. Essay subjects include: The Principle of Guidan...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Carole HillenbrandIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 416Collection: Edinburgh...

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Eli...

Reducere. "Enclosed in this beautiful package, please find: an agile mind, a perfect style, a canny and undeceivable heart, and a welcome, enduring presence ...

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 volume collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world's leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It explores the distinctive natur...

Reducere. Now in paperback, today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays.By tur...

Reducere. America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50...

Reducere. This volume brings together 53 essays of Bhikkhu Bodhi previously published by the Buddhist Publication Society in newsletters and other publicatio...

Reducere. The finest non-fiction by Ruskin Bond, a singular writer who has inspired and comforted three generations of readers, collected in a single volume....

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close...

Reducere. Tsimtsum (contraction) and hitpashtut (expansion). These two kabbalistic terms aptly describe the thought of Bezalel Naor. Though diametrically opp...

Reducere. Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-mak...

Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known...

Reducere. DescriptionJust as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave...

DescriptionContinuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of H...

At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning m...

Presents a series of papers concerned with the interrelations between the post modern and the state of art and design education. Spanning a range o...

Reducere. For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned i...

Publisher: John Donald Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Jenny WormaldIllustration(s): 8 Plates, black and whiteNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Di...

Reducere. DescriptionAll that patients need, including patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, is a competent therapist. They do not need shock treatment or e...

Reducere. A record of a great writer's nonfiction work and an evolving picture of the last years of his life, during the time when he published Animal Farm a...

DescriptionIn the 120 years since the publication of his final poetry collection, Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899), Ernest Dowson has become ...

Reducere. "Glimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings."-Kirkus Reviews In a second volume of original essays drawn ...

Collects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze and Guattari.Publisher: Edinburgh ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Ian BuchananNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 23Cover type: Paperba...