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Mage Publishers An Encounter with Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of Iranian Studies publications made possible by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran''s oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who was to become a towering figure in Iranian cinema and literature, encounters Dylan Thomas, the famous Welsh poet, who died two years later at the age of thirty-nine from bronchial disease and pneumonia. More for his celebrity than an intimate knowledge of the subject, Thomas had been sent to Iran by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to write a script for a propaganda film about the company''s supposedly salutary role in the country. But for a few hours, Golestan and Thomas pause amidst the escalating standoff between their two countries and speak candidly about poetry, history, philosophy, and the perils of translation. Published here for the first time is the English translation (with facing pages in the original Persian) of Golestan''s unflinching portrayal of that encounter, revealing, all too clearly, how unsuited Thomas was for the task in hand. Accompanying the translation is an account of Thomas''s time in Iran, written by Abbas Milani, Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University, together with Alina Utrata, a Ph.D. candidate and Gates Cambridge scholar. Based on the poet''s letters, journals, and archival material in England and Wales, it helps to shed further light on an episode long shrouded in mystery and plagued by controversy. Publication of this book coincides with the hundredth birthday in October 2022 of Ebrahim Golestan. To mark the occasion, Professor Milani has included a personal and erudite introductory essay on Golestan''s life and work, examining his pioneering approach to film and his important contribution to Iranian literature, despite living in exile for most of his adult life. With a filmography and selected bibliography of the works by or about Golestan, this multifaceted volume offers not only a striking commentary on Iranian arts, politics, and history.
£44.19
Mage Publishers Inc Lament for Siavash
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£42.75
Tidalwave Productions TidalWave One-Shot Wonders
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£17.97
Grim Oak Press Unbound II: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy
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£29.75
Blue Box Press The Marriage Auction: Book Four
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Caitlin Press Boobs: Women Explore What It Means to Have
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£14.39
Caitlin Press Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as ROOM OF ONE''S OWN. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the mind fuck of being raped by a romantic partner, and a tribute to the women who were murdered in the Montreal Massacre. In one story, a group of sexual assault survivors meet weekly and come up with an unique way to help police capture their assailant, while in another a dinner party turns to witty talk of racism, sexism, pornography, and time travel. One author recounts how she learned multiple languages in order to connect with her father, another reluctantly walks down the aisle in order to stay in Canada with the man she loves. For forty years, ROOM has created a space for diverse voices. As Amber Dawn says in her opening essay, There is Room. We do fit. Contributors include Carol Shields, Audrey Thomas, Marian Engel, M. NourbeSe Philip, Carmen Aguirre, Eden Robinson, Daphne Marlatt, Dorothy Livesay, Ayelet Tsabari, Ivan Coyote, Tracey Lindberg, Sina Queyras, Evelyn Lau, Jen Sookfong Lee, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, and more. With forewords by Eleanor Wachtel and Amber Dawn, interviews with four former ROOM editors, and an afterword by ROOM''s current publisher and managing editor.
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Caitlin Press Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs,
Book SynopsisWhat keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relationships have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideaseverything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. Theres happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, the wide-ranging personal stories and poems in Love Me True are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. Editors Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam have assembled work from notable authors across Canada, both well-known and up-and-coming, including Luanne Armstrong, Joanne Arnott, Donna Besel, Ronna Bloom, Lesley Buxton, Mandy Len Catron, Kevin Chong, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Eufemia Fantetti, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Maureen Scott Harris, Maureen Hynes, Michelle Kaeser, Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Chelene Knight, Evelyn Lau, Ellen McGinn, Lauren McKeon, Monica Meneghetti, Jane Munro, Susan Musgrave, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Juliane Okot Bitek, Susan Olding, Elise Partridge, Miranda Pearson, Toni Pieroni, Tana Runyan, Rachel Rose, Andreas Schroeder, Karen Shklanka, Anne Simpson, Kara Stanley, Chris Tarry, Rob Taylor, Yasuko Thanh, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari, Bronwen Wallace, Betsy Warland, Gina Leola Woolsey, Samra Zafar, and others.
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Caitlin Press Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love &
Book SynopsisAfter the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories. The 1970s was a time of intense cultural shifts for women all over North America. Freedom from traditional gender roles and expectations encouraged widespread relocation of young women seeking adventure and meaning, often migrating from urban to rural locations. The agricultural area of the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island offered a unique opportunity to these young women. Dancing in Gumboots collects the stories of thirty-two women who traveled from around North America to Vancouver Island, eventually settling in and around the Comox Valley. The young women who chose the agricultural Vancouver Island area to make their homes, showcase the personal challenges and struggles arising from such radical change.
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Caitlin Press Body and Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seeker
Book SynopsisBody & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality. Liberation comes with breaking that age-old code of silence to talk about the messiness of faith, practice, religion and ceremony, to confess our sublimely unconventional modes of spiritual yearning. The writers in this volume, including Sharon Bala, Carleigh Baker, Eufemia Fantetti, Sue Goyette, K.D. Miller, Zarqa Nawaz, Alison Pick, Sigal Samuel, Ayelet Tsabari, Betsy Warland and others, many from marginalized or misunderstood communities, are speaking out so that others will speak up. Enough of fear. Enough of hiding out, tongue-tied. Its time for joy, humanity and frankness. Its time to step up and leadnot by running after answers, but by asking caring, daring questions. Its time for body and soul.
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Otago University Press To the Mountains: A collection of New Zealand
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£21.59
Otago University Press Landfall 236
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Otago University Press Landfall 239
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OneTree House Ltd Lit: Stories from home
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£15.29
Otago University Press Strong Words #2
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£17.10
Otago University Press Landfall 242: Spring 2021
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Otago University Press Landfall 245
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Imagined Geographies: Central European Spatial
Book SynopsisIn 1984 Czech writer Milan Kundera published his essay 'The Tragedy of Central Europe' in The New York Review of Books, which established the framework for disputes about the space between East and West for the following 30 years. Even today, the echo of those debates is still audible in spatial narratives. Discussing the way in which literary figures are positioned within new hierarchies such as gender, class, or ethnicity, this volume shows how the space of the imagined Central Europe has been de- and reconstructed. Special attention is paid to the role of the past in shaping contemporary spatial discourse.
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Montez Press Pfeil Magazine 17: High
Book SynopsisFrom bottom to top and back again, this issue is dedicated to the motif High, with all its connected meanings. We encounter physical, mental, and social states of up and down, high and low, how they relate to each other and yet constantly contradict. Inside are tales of drug history, addiction, the reproduction crisis, hopes and disappointments, radiation with benefits, high-pitched dolphin tones, and even a frightened cupcake.Within the format of a magazine, each page of Pfeil represents the floor, walls, or ceiling which together create an imagined room displaying a printed exhibition. Each issue is dedicated to a specific word, and artists are invited and given space to work on and with this term, and to construct or deconstruct the architecture around it. Combined, the contributions transform into an organic display surrounding the leitmotif.Contributors: Alejandra López, Bod Mellor, Cecilia Gentili, Christiane Blattmann, Claire DeVoogd, Cordula Ditz, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Jac Common, Jan Matthé, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Jakob Tanner, Jasmin Werner, Katie Della-Valle, Katy Lewis Hood, Leah Jun Oh, Lila de Magalhaes, Lucy Beech, Masha Silchenko, Marina Pinsky, Michael Kent, Michelle Esther O'Brien, Moesari, Nina Kuttler, Paige Emery, Paul Niedermayer, Penny Goring, Riar Rizaldi, Sands Murray-Wassink, Silvia Federici, Tang Han, Tina KämpeEdited by Anja Dietmann
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd World's Greatest Speeches
Book SynopsisThis anthology gives an insight into the minds of great leaders and personalities and documents the way they changed the course of history with their inspirational and motivational speeches. These speeches have not only influenced the people of their times but also today''s generation. The speeches are of particular significance in the present world of violence, turmoil and injustice. It is hoped that this selection of the world''s greatest speeches will prompt the reader to pause awhile and ponder on their timeless relevance and significance.
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Motilal Banarsidass, A Slice of Life: An Anthology of Short Stories
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest French Classics: Alfred Capus and
Book SynopsisFrench food is arguably the most famous in the world for its sophistication and grandeur, and its exciting and innovative tastes. Its fame has created an aura of such seriousness that the food (and wine) literally cry out for a humorous explanation. This book is intended for the initiated and uninitiated alike,
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest French Classics: From La Sale to
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest French Classics: From Jules Claretie
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest Masterpiece Classics: Chinese,
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest Italian Classics
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest Russian Classics: From Pushkin to
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest French Classics: From George Sand to
Book SynopsisFrench food is arguably the most famous in the world for its sophistication and grandeur, and its exciting and innovative tastes. Its fame has created an aura of such seriousness that the food (and wine) literally cry out for a humorous explanation. This book is intended for the initiated and uninitiated alike,
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest Scandinavian: Dutch, Swedish,
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Crest Publishing House The Greatest German Classics
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Love Stories/favorite Fairy Tales
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Party Time in Mussoorie
Book SynopsisIt is very kind of people to invite me to their parties, especially as I do not throw parties myself or invite anyone anywhere. At more than one party I have been known to throw things at people. In spite of thisor maybe because of itI get invited to these affairs. There''s nothingike being able to see the funny side of things inife. Whether it is a belt that decides to get hooked on to another passenger''s bag or monkeys who visit and take refuge in theoo or even the omelettes that don''t turn out exactly the way they were intended, Ruskin Bond brings alive each of these situations with wry humour and a generous dose of wit. Party Time in Mussoorie is as much fun to read as it is to attend any of the weird and wonderful parties Ruskin Bond describes in this collection.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. THE REGIMENTAL MYNA
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Unicorn Books Pvt Ltd Bedtime Mailbox
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Jaico Publishing House A Treasury of Indian Fables
Book SynopsisEach story will thrill your imagination and offer a gentle yet profound lesson at the end. Accompanied by striking artwork, A Treasury of Indian Fables brings witty and adventurous stories from across the subcontinent!
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Pentagon Press Classics in Italian Literature
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Pentagon Press Classics in World Literature: The Best of World
Book SynopsisThe two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years. The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. It analyses the nature of war, and reveals how victory may be ensured. The Book of Lord Shang is a political treatise for the instruction of rulers. These texts are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation. They are serious, urgent and practical responses to the desperate situations in which they were written. They have been immensely influential both inside and outside China.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Monkey Tales
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Writing the City:: Looking Within, Looking
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd The Grip of Change
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Nehru's India Essays on the Maker of a Nation
Book SynopsisNehru''s influence stretched beyond the Freedom Movement and the political and bureaucratic boundaries of prime ministerhood. A man of letters, it was Nehru who initiated the setting up of the Sahitya Akademi devoted to literature, the National School of Drama and the National Institute of Design; just as, in the field of technology and business management, he established the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Management across the country. He was equally the force behind the setting up of dams and factories, which he regarded as the temples of modern India. Today, the four key dimensions of Indian nationhood, as conceived and implemented by Nehru democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment have altered to a point where they have changed almost beyond recognition or even abandoned altogether. As the debate continues between Nehru''s supporters who believe in his enduring contribution, and his detractors who attempt to deny it, the definitive word, perhaps, comes from Nayantara Sahgal, who says in her Introduction, No Nehru, no modern India. The ground we stand on was laid in Nehru''s time. This volume brings together an examination of the different aspects of Nehru''s personality and his legacy by some of our foremost thinkers, writers and activists: Mani Shankar Aiyar, Kumar Ketkar, Aditya and Mridula Mukherjee, Shiv Visvanathan, Rakesh Batabyal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Hartosh Bal, Aakar Patel, Kiran Nagarkar, Purushottam Agrawal, Syeda Hameed, Ramachandra Guha, Neera Chandhoke and Shabnam Hashmi
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Delhi University
Book SynopsisA diverse group of accomplished individuals from Delhi University share personal narratives in "Delhi University: Celebrating 100 Glorious Years." The book highlights the institution's rich history, vibrant student life, and significant contributions to society and culture.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Granny's Tales
Book SynopsisGranny was a genius. You''dike to know why? Because she could climb trees. Spreading or high She''d be up their branches in a trice. And mind you Whenast she climbed a tree, she was sixty-two.'' You ask anybody who their favourite member of the family is, and their answer will be one of their grandparents. A grandparent''s capacity forove, the abundance of affection that they hold and share with abandon, make them the purest and the best people to be with. What is more, they entertain you with stories of a time past and sometimes, if we areucky, they partake in crazy activities with us as witnesses. In Granny''s Tales, Ruskin Bond takes us through such stories of affection and tenderness, of grandpas being hilariousfighting ostriches, building zoos in his backyard and tickling tigers. And the wonder that grandmas aretelling bedtime stories with flourish, witnessing us climbing trees for afternoon hilarity and teachingessons that will help us in all. This book is the perfect dose of grandparent stories, for children and adults alike!
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Rupa Publ iCat Ions India Garden of Dreams
Book SynopsisI''ve come to see you,'' she said. For aong,ong time, I hope.'' And I took her by the hand anded her into my home, my garden of books. And that was how Kiran came into myife. [] If you meet her, she will tell you about the garden of dreamsperhaps she will take you there some day, for she is a girl who can make dreams come true. In a world that treasures being realistic'' more than daydreaming, we sometimes forget that the only way to aim higher is to daydream aittlehow do we have ambition without aittle hope? It is at timesike this when we should remember the desires of your youth. How we dreamed bigger than we could afford to; how weeapt and then thought of the fall. In Garden of Dreams, Ruskin Bond brings together stories and personal essays that talk of such youthful exuberance. He talks ofove and its effect on a tired soul; of friends that become your anchors through stormy days, of romance kindled over chocolates; and many such tales that rekindle our zest forife. This book is for all those who dare to be aittle naÃve in this sombre world.
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Rupa Publ iCat Ions India Celebrating India: Stories That Shaped our Nation
Book SynopsisFor India''s 75th birthday, we trace how our nation came about; what freedom, independence and democracy mean; and how we remain together building a stronger India day by day, through a collection of stories, activities, puzzles, facts, quotes that children can feel and relate to. 75 stories, puzzles, activities, facts and quotes on freedom, Constitution, heroes and festivities. This collector''s book is for every child who wants to understand India through feelings and emotions, one story at a time!
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Zubaan Her Piece of Sky: An Anthology of Hindi Women
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Niyogi Books A Darker Dawn
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Westland Publications Limited Urban Shots
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