The Writing of the Disaster

Reducere. Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The...

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust--grief, anger, terror, and...

Reducere. "Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogen...

Reducere. Set along the rugged beauty of the South Australian coast, Storm Boy cares for an injured pelican and finds a friend that shows him the power of lo...

A concise and complete guide to emergency disaster planning. Featuring practical frameworks for action, step-by-step instructions for writing and u...

Reducere. When on April 12, 1912, the British passenger ship, RMS Titanic, famously sank 400 miles off the coast of Canada, Estelle Stead was on a tour in th...

Reducere. The first thing I hear is music. The first thing I've always heard is music.Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music lik...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features ...

Reducere. A LIFE AS EXCITING AS FICTION Gary Paulsen, three-time Newbery Honor author, is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled an...

On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and fin...

Reducere. 379 AD: Thracia has fallen to the Gothic horde...With the ashes of Adrianople still swirling in the air, the Eastern Roman Empire is in turmoil. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionFor Hanaan, the freedom of summer means hours of uninterrupted quality time with her sister and countless sunny days spend writing in he...

Reducere. On September 20th, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico as a Category 4--a devastatingly powerful storm that left immen...

I love you . . . but what if I can't love your life?Ava is sick of online dating. She's always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway,...

The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of ...

Reducere. Fr George Congreve SSJE (1835-1918) was a spiritual giant in his own times but is now largely forgotten. A Life-long Springtime shows Congreve's co...

DescriptionFight like a godmother Q: What will Isabelle learn in Level Four? a) How to be a great fairy godmotherb) The TRUE story of the Unhappy P...

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Rob...

Reducere. The British Library presents another captivating example of classic crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.Four men were due to fly to D...

Reducere. A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singu...

Reducere. LUCKY... OR BLESSED? The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: At moments of crisis, when the odds against success seem overwhe...

"This dystopian adventure will appeal to adult and young adult readers alike." -Publishers' WeeklyA group of teenage students, while exploring deep...

The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggl...

On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 torn...

Reducere. Mortal Coils (1921) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Focused on themes of love, taboo, disillusionment, and the wr...

Reducere. Twelve-year-old Audrey wants nothing more than to be a dance performer and aerialist, but that feels far from reality in 1944 Hartford, Connecticut...

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DescriptionFormer Senior Editor for Gothamist Rebecca Fishbein's adult life has been a dramatic reflection of New York media itself--constantly evo...

Reducere. At 3: 37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synago...

Reducere. Meet outgoing Ava Wren, a fun fifth grader who tries not to lose patience with her shy big sister. When Pip's 13th birthday party turns into a disa...

The sci-fi spectacular FIGHT GIRL BATTLE WORLD blends stage combat, puppetry, and multi-media to create a uniquely cinematic experience for the liv...

A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the l...

Reducere. DescriptionSet along the rugged beauty of the South Australian coast, Storm Boy cares for an injured pelican and finds a friend that shows him the ...

Reducere. Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement of the book and its mission by Washington State's First Lady, Trudi Inslee Once a...

Reducere. Known as one of the most ethereal children's fantasies by George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind has been a favorite among families for ov...

For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the worl...

Andy Stanley thinks he's seen it all as a member of the Jungle Explorer's Society-mummies, magic, all sorts of monsters. His own grandfather, Ned L...

Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She had intended to study medicine in Chicago or Grand Forks, but when ...

Reducere. For four years at Annapolis he prepared for this, pledging his youth, his ambition, and even his life. But when junior officer Dan Lenson finally g...

Reducere. As the magnetic field reverses, a well-intentioned president tries to avert the worst-case scenario The Collapse of the power grid.But does his dec...

Reducere. Events on the Little Bighorn might have turned out better for George Armstrong Custer had he listened to H.H. Lomax rather than trying to kill him....

Reducere. DescriptionIn this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fai...

The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel Missing LinksLife is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily ...

Reducere. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow ...

Reducere. The fourth chapter book in the charming, commercial series about a mermaid's adventures at her new school Marnie Blue's adventures at Lady Sealia F...

Reducere. The "consistently witty" Agatha Award-winning author presents a tale of murder in a country mansion (Mystery News).With their fortunes dwindling, R...

Reducere. Wanda the witch is so shy she can't talk at school. No matter how hard she tries, the words simply won't come out. But when another quiet little wi...

Reducere. A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead Beca...

Reducere. In this newest adventure of Eric and his mini-dragon, Pan, the two are thrilled to hear someone coming down the chimney on Christmas Eve--but they ...

Reducere. Action and adventure with high stakes and a happy ending -- and dogs Gem is a golden retriever puppy who loves to dig. She gets adopted out to a ha...

Reducere. Two women fight for their lives against an enigmatic killer in this electrifying novel from a New York Times bestselling author and "master" of thr...