Tropic of Violence, Paperback - Nathacha Appanah

Nathacha Appanah returns with a powerful, beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten islandPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): ...

Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

A beautifully observed portrait of a fractured family and a poetic exploration of the ways we break apart and rebuild.Publisher: Quercus Publishing...

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 ...

Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in "primitive societies." The war machine is the motor of the social machine;...

The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence. I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at ...

Reducere. From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewa...

Reducere. In this landmark work, Allen Morris Jones spends a year exploring one of the wildest ecosystems in North America, hunting and examining the philoso...

DescriptionHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual ...

25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, un...

An in-depth exploration of the random acts of violence that reverberate across our communities and strike at the heart of our societyIllustrations:...

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

Reducere. Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Sean LiscomJason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had n...

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 ...

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 ...

From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that b...

Reducere. DescriptionHaunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children i...

Reducere. 24 Tales of Madmen, Monsters, and Misery.A tantalizing blend of horror, suspense, and crime stories; each unique but all dark, disturbing, and viol...

Reducere. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street viole...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

Reducere. From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a "thought-provoking meditation" (Seattl...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

Reducere. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more...

DescriptionWhat does Jesus have to say about violence, just war, and killing? Does Jesus ever want his disciples to kill in order to resist evil an...

To better understand school violence this Element provides a comprehensive meta-analysis of the school violence and victimization literature. Using...

In Tropic of Capricorn, bestselling author Simon Reeve embarks on a 23, 000-mile trek around the southernmost border of the tropics - a place of bo...

Reducere. Serge A. Storms embarks on a tour to meet his long-lost relatives in this latest madcap entry in the bestselling series from Florida's "compulsivel...

A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.

Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safetyPublisher:...

This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history.Publisher: Oxbow Boo...

Reducere. Published to critical acclaim in 1959 and long out of print, Crusader Without Violence was the first biography of the dynamic leader who emerged fr...

Reducere. With violence of all kinds -- from child abuse and domestic violence to hate crimes and stalking -- at an all-time high, today's counselors must be...

Reducere. Serge Storms is a lover of history, so he's decided to investigate his own using one of those DNA services. Excited to construct a family tree, he ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential boo...