The Pleasures of Exile, Paperback - George Lamming

Reducere. In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny comb...

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with re...

Reducere. The Pleasures of Cocaine conveys the impartial facts of the uses and abuses of cocaine. Without bias, many different aspects are covered: History, ...

One of the most intriguing and engaging voices in contemporary Christianity is that of the Irish poet, Padraig O Tuama and this is his first, long-...

A Time Of Exile is the first book in The Westlands series - a new entry point into Kerr's magical world, and a continuation of the tale begun in Th...

Reducere. To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stu...

"Twenty-five years on, Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographic...

Reducere. A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionat...

Publisher: Daunt BooksAuthor(s): Ana KinsellaNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 196 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, te...

Reducere. From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience i...

In this engaging and readable book, Dr. Korner describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. The topi...

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press LtdAuthor(s): Mr George LammingNumber of pages: 436Collection: Caribbean Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2011Dimensio...

A delightful collection of original essays by Elena Ferrante as she reflects on the "adventure of writing"-her own and others'.Publisher: Europa Ed...

A passionate attack on the tyranny of experts Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need...

'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of SolitudeBeing alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish. ________The average adult spen...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together lit...

The pleasures of learning Latin, and the relevance and seriousness of this pursuit far beyond its spoken use, are proposed in this celebration of L...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 2 b-w illustrationsTranslator: David ShulmanNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dim...

Performing oral sex is an art form and should only be attempted by those who have been well trained. A Beginner's Journey into the Pleasures of a B...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Paul BloomNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 23Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. From the author of Against Empathy comes a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasur...

Reducere. "You can't have depths without surfaces, " says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman's guid...

Award-winning dietitian, bestselling author, and co-founder of the intuitive eating movement, Evelyn Tribole, offers an inviting and practical intr...

Building on the resurgence of interest in Stefan Zweig in recent years, this is a moving and original examination of his tragic decline from univer...

Reducere. The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive w...

Reducere. "Fascinating, rich, and probing . . . a beguiling and endlessly interesting portrait"--The Wall Street Journal For fans of John le Carré and Ben Ma...

Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Simon KuperIllustration(s): photos scattered throughout textNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Marid Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared...

Reducere. "J'Accuse...! is so dynamic, joyous in its language and emotion, and consistently exciting, engrossing.... A page-turner! And mysteriously easy to ...

Reducere. Eating is a symbolic and magical act--a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity--but all through history, food-themed stories ...

Bawaajigan--an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision--is a collection of powerful short fiction (urban-fantasy and high-fantasy; alternative hi...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

A biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history, who just died in Moscow.

With the world facing the greatest global crisis of all time - climate change - personal and political indifference has wrought a series of unfoldi...

Reducere. 1. Deranged3: 462. Til Death Do Us Part4: 493. Parasite4: 554. Brain Dead4: 155. Faster Than You'll Ever Live to Be4: 256. Pleasures of the Flesh7:...

Explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabulary. David Sobelman does so by looking at the...

In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile--permanently, as it turned out--a...

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.Publisher: The School of Life PressAuthor(s): The School of LifeNumber of pages...

Delivers a message that help perimenopausal and menopausal women understand that at menopause ...life has just begun.Publisher: Hay House UK LtdAut...

The first three novels set in Ursula K. Le Guin's famed Hainish universe, together in one volume.

Reducere. For a thousand years and more audiences have delighted in these Irish tales, wondering at the elopement of the impetuous Grainne with the heroic Di...

Reducere. In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, dra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...