The Identity Myth

An exploration of the way we use identities and how we have come to over-rely on themPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): David SwiftNumbe...

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Out of Your Mind brings readers, for the first t...

This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fic...

The search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nig...

DescriptionCreated in response to the myth that gender transition takes five years to complete, None of Us is Yet a Robot charts performance artist...

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity Every day, women around the world are confro...

Reducere. A poetry collection pulling from the author's personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture,...

Reducere. This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Be...

Baltic Facades presents a new history of the Baltic area, one that dispels the myth of a single, coherent regional identity. Aldis Purs describes t...

Reducere. In her debut novella, Rios de la Luz examines the lives of a small family of water witches living near the US-Mexico border. Exploring issues of ra...

Reducere. The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, le...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates...

Reducere. Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Par...

Reducere. In the midst of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a handful of British intellectuals turned their backs on the social and cultural trends of th...

Reducere. INTIMATE brilliantly redefines "memoir" by assembling its narratives from divergent sources: the mixed-race marriage of Paisley Rekdal's parents, t...

Reducere. Protectress is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand, Pro...

Reducere. In The Viagra Myth Dr. Abraham Morgentaler (a practicing urologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School) shows us that while Viagra has proved ...

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 ...

Description'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature ...

Reducere. DescriptionPsyche's Knife examines the myth of Eros and Psyche as a metaphor for the development of soul in the psychology of women, explicating th...

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Mea...

This volume explores the ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness influenced the identities and integration of Nordic...

The great epic poem of Northern Europe, born deep in the heart of ancient Karelian forests Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland--the ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE THAT PARENTS WILL WANT FOR THEIR TEENS This thorough, concise guide offers straight talk abou...

Reducere. For many generations the Northern Arapaho people thrived over a vast area of the North American Plains and Rocky Mountains. For more than a century...

DescriptionThe Prince and the Pauper gets a Geekerella-style makeover in this witty and heartfelt novel for those who believe in the magic of fando...

Reducere. From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a bri...

Reducere. In her engaging study, Passing for Perfect, erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim--who pretended to be...

DescriptionRabbi or Messiah? Prophet or the Son of God? People have debated the identity of Jesus of Nazareth since the first century. But what if ...

Reducere. DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling r...

A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" (Bitch Magazine) essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America learning that everything is about se...

Kip Penfold's apprenticeship as the first non-human sorcerer begins with exploring the ruins left by the vicious attack on Prince George's College ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elias LonnrotThe Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lonnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral fo...

Reducere. Description"Leah Stewart's brilliantly written novel Husband and Wife is a deeply human book: funny, tender, smart, self-aware. When you read it yo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Marco Benoit (University College London, UK) CarboneIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 280...

Reducere. By analyzing one of the world's greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth, and ceremony-the collections of linguist/anthropologist T. G. H. Str...

Reducere. In this 1912 classic, a founder of modern sociology seeks the enduring source of human social identity. mile Durkheim presents a remarkably accessi...

This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity.Introducing readers to seven vari...

DescriptionAs a Knight of the Shadow Fae, I'm tasked with defending the Institute. I'm deep into a world of dark magic, orgiastic death cults, and ...

LA MANO del DESTINO tells the tale of a once-champion Luchador - who, after being betrayed by his friends and unmasked in the ring, agrees to a Fau...

DescriptionEvery human is born with multifarious potential. Why, then, do parents, schools and employers insist that we restrict our many talents a...

DescriptionLove is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking...

Reducere. From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term "indigenous stor...

Reducere. In 1988 Ann Druffel, who has researched UFOs for 40 years, discovered a little-known fact that had been drowned in abduction hysteria--documented e...

Reducere. In this work, Gonz lez dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the na...

Unpicking the ever-changing myth of the West in photography, from the 19th century to nowPublished for an exhibition at the Figge Art Museum in Dav...

Reducere. American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents--and contine...

DescriptionFolklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the ...

Reducere. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck ca...

Reducere. In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance a...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

Reducere. In her stunning debut novel, Lilian Nattel brilliantly brings to life the richness of shtetl culture through the story of an imagined village: Blas...

Reducere. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2019 NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. One of Entertainment...

Reducere. DescriptionGideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It ...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. The poems in SKIRTED glisten with precise and honest lines that chart how their queer speaker measures an...

Reducere. Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been...

When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country, " the frontier was already synonymous with ...

Reducere. This poetry collection is the record of an American's return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a...

Reducere. Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--a...

Reducere. African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portra...

"Neaptide races from domestic trauma to staff-room banter ... it bursts with provocative ideas and disturbing questions about human relationships. ...

Reducere. An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/...

Reducere. -Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest...

DescriptionRichard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol ...

Reducere. A rousing historical narrative of the best-known and arguably most significant battle in English history. The effects of the Battle of Hastings wer...

Reducere. Part textbook, part life-story, part theological expos, Understanding Haitian Voodoo comes from a much-respected Haitian gentleman who writes as a ...

Reducere. Do you ever find yourself staring longingly into the night sky, aspiring for something greater in this life than simply slaving for money and payin...