Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems, Hardcover - Alastair Fowler

Reducere. Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six dec...

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Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off ...

Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous acad...

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development...

DescriptionThis engaging pictorial history tells of the tall sailing ships that came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in the mid-1700s. Met by na...

Reducere. This reproduction of a Victorian birthday reminder book entwines flowers and their emblems with great poetry. 365 color engravings grace this littl...

Reducere. Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' s...

Reducere. Here starts the journey Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love, and posted it online. These he...

Reducere. In its 122 brief essays, Worlds in Words traces the history and links among key concepts in Western cultures. Beginning with Proto-Indo-European ro...

The latest instalment of Alastair Campbell's diaries, which details how he went from working for Tony Blair to working for Gordon Brown when he bec...

Reducere. Cheryl Trench is a national treasure tucked within the pages of a small town paper. Her near half century of musings and missives are witty, insigh...

A compelling first-hand look at one of today's most fascinating food trends - the practice of cooking with and eating insects The concept of eating...

Reducere. Description"The Ideology of Fascism" was written by Oswald Mosley in 1967 and provides a post WW2 analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Fasci...

Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (N...

Reducere. Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulatio...

Reducere. Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Many of the include...

Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, phi...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen transports readers to a corner of history with this inspiring story of a girl who ...

Questions of identity and individual experience are addressed by Virgina Woolf in this superb collection The Notting Hill Editions Classic Collecti...

Reducere. Thirteen writers consider the groundbreaking work of Jane Jacobs, whose critiques of urban renewal in America resonate today more than ever.Author ...

This book is a thorough treatment of the evolution of the United States Marine Corps's principal distinguishing insignia, and covers from 1804 thro...

Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the ...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defen...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Steven ShaviroNumber of pages: 192Collection: PosthumanitiesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 21...

DescriptionAn urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numer...

In an imaginative journey through the grand story of the universe, this book introduces kids ages 10+ to God's radiant beauty using the main catego...

Reducere. I believe in dignity in all things, and it goes both ways, and while that attitude is modeled, the why-what-how has first to be shown, taught, and ...

Reducere. It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning.The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans...

Reducere. Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

A space opera journey into deep space, looking a thousand years into the future to when mankind's influence has expanded into the universe. His nov...

The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition....

DescriptionAchille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new...

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 ...

The city of Americus--seat of Sumter County, Georgia--has a rich past that stretches back hundreds of years. The people and events that shaped Amer...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Reducere. This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing t...

Reducere. Advice and words of wisdom from the greatest American businessman and philanthropist. John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest man to...

Reducere. Ten years after sparks first flew between them in a passionate kiss, a recently divorced woman and a college professor meet in another classroom --...

On Quarry Beach is Robert's 2nd collection of poetry, covering the years 2008 - 2013. The poems are eclectic in both subject and style, the latter ...

Reducere. A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes ...

In this collection of imaginative short stories that depict poignant moments in the life of a woman on a journey of self-discovery, the heroine, Gr...

Reducere. The Russian dancer and teacher Vladimir Stepanov (1866 - 1896) developed a system of human movement notation based on the principles of music notat...

Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.In Disturbed Consciousness, philo...