The Identity Myth

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

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. 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...

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...

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 ...

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. First published in 1865, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was Mark Twain's first real literary success and arguably launched his c...

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...

Nelly's adventures of a myth-like fantasy conjure her identity when she suddenly finds herself in the desert. Never in her dreams exists the notion...

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...

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

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

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

Reducere. The wildly unrestrained poems in Splinters Are Children of Wood, Leia Penina Wilson's second collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in P...

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...

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

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 ...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from The Millions * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Electric Literature Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for D...

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

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

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

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

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

Description"An important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American history" (New York Journal of Books), Steven R. W...

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

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...

One woman's journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity...

Reducere. Out of Loneliness: Murder and Memoir opens on Memorial Day 1962 when Bev Waugh, a transgender man strode down a quiet street in a small South Dakot...

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. 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. 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...

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. DescriptionWhen you live in a city built on shifting sands of myth, it can be hard to know which way is up.Kathryn Massey spends her days spreading...

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

Reducere. Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coa...

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

Reducere. Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this ...

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

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. 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. DescriptionInspired by Hispanic folklore, legends, and myths from the Iberian Peninsula and Central and South America, this bold sequel to Charlie ...

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

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

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

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

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

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. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobe...

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...

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. 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...

Reducere. A Dangerous Season, the third Sheriff Matt Callahan mystery novel, depicts life on Callahan's iced-in island during a brutal winter. Callahan, who ...

Reducere. WHO IS ASHTAR? Man or Myth? Name or Title? Space Commander or Archangel? Intergalactic Spiritual Leader? The name Ashtar has become widely known in...

DescriptionA witty take on feminism for every woman who wants equality but sometimes wants a day off from fighting for it Sometimes we feel a bit l...

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...

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...

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...

Contributor(s): Author: Jane WardA straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight--her boyfriend may even encourage ...

DescriptionA history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection...

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 ...

In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s. His road trip was a remarkable ...

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...

Reducere. Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western r...

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...

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...

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...