The Identity Myth

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...

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...

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

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

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. 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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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. 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. 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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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. 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...

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

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. 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. 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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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