The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing, Paperback - Jeanne-Marie Jackson

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of I...

Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical m...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

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The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and cont...

Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contem...

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Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an ...

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Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and...

It is increasingly recognised that instead of relying on top-down commands or leaving individuals to their own devices, communities should be given...

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the ...

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In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conq...

Scholars have long been fascinated by the creative struggles with genre manifested throughout Dostoevsky's career. In The Novel in the Age of Disin...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 8 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 23Cover typ...

Concise history of the Sri Lankan people.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Wickramasinghe NiraNumber of pages: 416Publication date: ...

`Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel

James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one ...

Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring conseq...

DescriptionThe first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeois...

DescriptionSince the first interactions between Christians and Muslims, a central point of contention has been the nature of God in relation to the...

You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea.It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgebal...

A provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to todayPubli...

Publisher: Westholme Publishing, U.S.Author(s): Carl LaneIllustration(s): 10 b/wNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 2...

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This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformation...

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How Amazon has changed literaturePublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Mark McGurlNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 29Co...

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The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

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DescriptionIn A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, Jeanne Marie Guyon explains how her method of quiet prayer helps Christians to enter into the pres...

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Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

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This book tells the story of diverse online creators--women, ethnic and racial minorities, queer folk and those from hardscrabble backgrounds--prod...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...