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Clarendon Press Village Life in Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisDeir el-Medina, the village of the workmen who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, is a uniquely rich source of information about life in Egypt between 1539 and 1075 BC. The abundant archaeological remains are complemented by tens of thousands of texts documenting the thoughts and activities of the villagers. Many of the texts are written on papyrus but most are on flakes of limestone which, being free and readily available, were used for even the most casual and temporary of records. They include private letters, administrative accounts, magic spells, records of purchases, last wills and testaments, laundry lists, and love songs. The value of these rare glimpses of daily life is greatly enhanced by the concentration of texts in one time and place.This book combines translations of over 200 of these texts spanning the entire range of preserved genres with stunning illustrations. The reader will, therefore, be able to experience the life of the villagers through their own words whilst viewing places known to each individual writer. Each text is introduced by a commentary that provides the context and explains the contribution each text makes to our understanding of Egyptian society at this period.Trade ReviewThis is one of the best volumes on Deir El Medina, and is an outstanding scholarly achievement, certain to prove useful to Egyptologists and historian alike. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
£77.90
Palgrave MacMillan UK machinicmodernism
Book SynopsisHow can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Towards a Literary Critical Machine The Spatiotemporality of To the Lighthouse The Visceral-Materiality of The Rainbow Ulysses : The Hyperconscious Machinic Text Ideas and Life in Conflict: Lawrence's Later Works Orlando and The Waves : Machinic Triumph of Form Conclusion Notes Index
£44.99
Penguin Books Ltd Abolition Politics Practices Promises Vol. 1
Book SynopsisFrom trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.Davis traces a genealogy of the penal system, from slavery to the prison industrial complex, offering a trenchant analysis of the relationship between the prison system and capitalism, both in the US and on a global scale. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and lessons from organising both inside and beyond prison walls, Davis addresses the history of abolitionist practice, details the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and offers the radical tools we need for revolutionary change.Powerful and rewarding, filled with insight and provocation, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, is essential reading for anyone seeking to imagine a world without prisons.A woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard' New York TimesShe has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and resist' John BergerBehold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise' June Jordan
£16.14
£38.78
Penguin Random House LLC Between Philosophy and Social Science Selected Early Writings Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
£47.53
Penguin Random House LLC Cinema Censorship and the State The Writings of Nagisa Oshima 19561978 October Books
£38.78
Yale University Press The Selected Essays from the Rambler Adventurer and Idler
Book SynopsisAn ample and varied section of accessible essays by Samuel Johnson
£40.46
Yale University Press The Dialogues of Plato Volume 4
Book SynopsisAmong Plato's later dialogues "The Parmenides" is considered one of the most significant. This book provides a translation of the text along with a structural analysis.
£38.23
Yale University Press Conversations in Jazz
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fresh and defining anthologies of the writer."—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone"[A] treasure trove of previously unavailable interviews by a premier journalist who unfailingly asked perceptive and probing questions."—Library Journal"The kind of righteous combination of sociocultural theory and radical politics that, today, you might find on Mark Fisher’s K-punk blog, or in the odd article Ben Watson is able to sneak past editors. In 1970, Gleason wrote 'If there is no way to change this world without killing half of us, then fuck it. I’ll do my best to have a ball and go out swinging.' The world still needs changing. We still need writing like this."—Daniel Spicer, The Wire"Gleason was clearly a great listener, to both the music and the people who produced it, and the nuggets of wisdom and frank self-revelation he elicits from the likes of John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie et all, constitute a great contribution to our understanding of a pivotal era of jazz."—Chris Parker, London Jazz"The experience of reading this book is more akin to eavesdropping on private conversations: indeed you almost feel as if you’re in the room with Gleason as he gets into a discussion with Jones over the pitfalls of being a bandleader, and listens to Coltrane meditate on what motivates him in his exploration of sound."—Charles Waring, Record Collector"An able guide to this American province."—Daniel Matlin, Literary Review“Ralph Gleason had a masterfully succinct interviewing style, and he elicited the candid thoughts of his subjects whose responses create a time capsule of a fascinating moment in jazz. This book is a portal into the mystic and insular world of jazz musicians and their interest in both tradition and innovation. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about how the music is understood by the people who play it.”—Lenny Pickett"Louis Armstrong once declared: 'What we play is life.' For his part, Ralph J. Gleason venerated and joyfully embraced the music of life and the musicians who played it, and the the memorable interviews that he conducted with the extraordinary jazz creators featured in this book are themselves revelatory conversation-performances that illuminate with wit, depth, love, and insight the life and soul of music itself."—Jonathan Cott"I’ve been digging Ralph Gleason’s dialogues in jazz since before I was born! My father and Ralph were still teenagers when John Hammond brought the first Lester Young recordings to them in a dorm room. So the discussions began. I heard some later ones on their original broadcasts, but the interviews in this book come from a private stash—at home—somewhat as it started 80 years ago."—Phil Schaap"Ralph Gleason brought jazz into countless American living rooms during the 1960s through his TV series, 'Jazz Casual.' Yet the one-on-one discussions in his own Berkeley living room—tape recorder rolling, Gleason and one or another of jazz’s greats sitting in overstuffed leather chairs—tell deeper stories. Here, framed with a wise and light touch by Ted Gioia, we get windows into personal worlds: John Coltrane on the cusp of a breakthrough; Sonny Rollins entering a period of reclusion; 'Philly' Joe Jones sharing drumming tradecraft and history; Duke Ellington explaining why, in music as in life, problems are opportunities."—Larry Blumenfeld"What a great opportunity to eavesdrop on these conversations with some of my musical heroes. Trane, Duke, Sonny. Are you kidding?"—Steve Elson
£999.99
Hachette Books Frederick The Great On The Art Of War
Book SynopsisFrederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years'' War in 1756 outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him and established Prussia as a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two centuries of European history. He was also a brilliant military thinker whose observations arose from extensive battlefield experience.This volume presents a balanced selection from Frederick''s writings on strategy, tactics, and mobility the problems of logistics and a two-front war the combined use of infantry, cavalry, and artillery the history of the Prussian army the critical battles of the Seven Years'' War generalship as an art and much more. A majority of this material is translated here for the first time in English and available nowhere else. The result is an invaluable glimpse into the inner thoughts of a military genius.Table of Contents* Frederick and the Art of War * The Sovereign and the Study of War * The Military Instrument * The Army on Campaign * The Anatomy of Battle * First Lessons in Tactics * From the Pages of History * The New War of Positions * Strategy * Generalship as an Art * Appendix I. Glossary of Some Eighteenth-Century Military Terms * Appendix II. Pertinent Dates in the Life of Frederick the Great
£18.04
Random House USA Inc Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
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£15.30
Picador The Message in the Bottle
£14.24
St Martin's Press Signposts in a Strange Land
£14.24
Picador USA How to Be Alone Essays
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£17.10
Picador USA The Death of Adam
Book SynopsisIn this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today.A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life''s mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book.
£16.20
Picador USA Fire and Knowledge
£22.06
Little, Brown & Company When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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£16.99
Little Brown and Company Consider the Lobster
£28.22
Back Bay Books The Best of Me
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£18.69
Back Bay Books Calypso
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£17.09
Back Bay Books HappyGoLucky
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£17.00
Little, Brown & Company Risk
Book SynopsisA fascinating (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us. Collecting the most celebrated stories from the hit podcast RISK!, along with all-new true tales about explosive secrets and off-the-wall adventures, this book paints a spellbinding portrait of the transformational moments we experience in life but rarely talk about. No topics are off-limits in RISK!, no memories too revealing to share. From accidentally harboring a teen fugitive to being poisoned while tripping on LSD in the Mayan ruins, these stories transport readers into uncharted territory and show how your life can change when you take an extraordinary leap. In these jaw-dropping stories, edited and introduced by RISK! host Kevin Allison, writers reveal how they pushed drugs for a Mexican cartel only to end up kidnapped and nearly killed, how they
£999.99
Little Brown and Company One Long River of Song
Book SynopsisA playful, deeply moving book of spiritual essays -- for the spiritual and non-spiritual alike -- that excavate the rich seams of examined life and point to the miracles that surround us.
£20.90
Back Bay Books ME Talk Pretty One Day
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£16.99
Little, Brown & Company A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again
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£13.78
Little, Brown Book Group The Last Empire
Book Synopsis* In this latest collection of essays, Gore Vidal displays unparalleled range and inimitable style as he deals with matters literary, historical, personal and political. Nobody makes the fur fly in a more elegant and civilised fashion than Gore Vodal. He is our indispensable man.Trade ReviewA collection of Gore Vidal's essays is always welcome, for wit, insight and passion rarely seen elsewhere in print. * SUNDAY TRIBUNE *
£22.52
Little, Brown Book Group Chasing Mammon
Book SynopsisMoney as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex and love. Money as status ... This intriguing and extraordinarily well-written book is cheering for those of us who aren''t rich, and will go happily to our graves without ever pulling down 300,000 per annum'' Simon Hoggart, LITERARY REVIEW''How we chase Mammon defines us. Because, like it or not, we are what we earn,'' CHASING MAMMON is the first travel book ever written about the uses of money and the attitudes of the wheelers and dealers in the international marketplace. Douglas Kennedy spent a year loitering with intent in six very disparate financial realms, including the Casablanca bourse (where stocks and bonds are listed on a blackboard), the squeaky-clean Singapore money markets, the Sydney futures market and the first Hungarian stock exchange to open since 1948. From the ''New Age'' City folk in London, unsure whether greed really is good for you, to the tireless toilers of Wall Street, Knnedy''Trade ReviewA sparkling international excursion along the route of all evil * Lloyd Grossman, SUNDAY TIMES *A series of strangely poignant life-accounts from those who wait at the banquet but do not sit at the feast * NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY *A travel writer of witty talent and originality, who steers a risky but well-plotted course away from the obvioius .. a timely and engaging book * DUBLIN SUNDAY TRIBUNE *Fascinating and funny * TODAY *
£18.57
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Best American Food Writing 2020 The Best American
Book SynopsisThe year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Best American Essays 2020 The Best American
Book SynopsisA collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Eye You See With
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 "Essays & Literary Criticism" for Spring 2020 "They called [Robert Stone] a prophet in his time. A writer of ideas and character. An American cross of Greene and Conrad, with a dash of ole’ dead Melville for good measure...A new book of essays collects Stone’s best and most penetrating political journalism...What unites The Eye You See With is Stone’s staunch, singular vision. It’s ironic, sad, hopeful." —Matt Gallagher, LitHub, "Robert Stone's Journalism Set New Moral and Artistic High-Water Marks" "Fine pieces...Nonfiction can show [Stone] at his most playful." —Joy Williams, Bookforum "Novelist Bell presents a sterling collection of essays on literature, culture, politics, and war by the late Stone (1937–2015), best known for his National Book Award–winning novel Dog Soldiers. Spanning the 1970s to the aughts, the essays demonstrates Stone’s remarkable capacity for capturing an era’s ethos while making larger, and still current, points...Throughout, Bell provides useful biographical information, which in combination with the essays provides a vivid portrait of Stone’s background and guiding philosophy. Fans of Stone’s novels will especially appreciate the insight, but any reader of narrative nonfiction will find plenty of interest in this fine collection." —Publishers Weekly "This first collection of Stone's nonfiction, edited by his biographer, Madison Smartt Bell [...] showcases the same dizzying welter of ideas and passions that defines Stone's landmark fiction...In [Stone's essay] 'What Fiction Is For,' he says that 'art is the only medium we have for removing a moment from the whirl of events and placing it under scrutiny in all its dimensions.' These essays, however, argue persuasively that, for Stone, nonfiction can do the same thing." —Booklist "Robert Stone was one of those novelists who try to wrap their arms around America itself...A look back at the writer and his work, especially his earliest novels, turns out to be well timed. In books that deserve to endure, Stone anticipates the present in surprising, unsettling ways...[He was] a novelist who transformed our aspirations and follies into literature." —Ernesto Artillo, The Atlantic "In addition to the biography, Child of Light, Bell has skillfully edited The Eye You See With, a broad selection of the novelist’s articles, essays, and other nonfiction pieces. The subjects Stone wrote about, as in his novels, range from accounts of the ravages of war in Vietnam to richly textured travel pieces set in Havana, Jerusalem, and other hot spots in-between...Stone got it right about the war, of course, and the disastrous effects on a generation of Americans. In both his fiction and nonfiction, he spoke in a uniquely mordant voice, in language that rang true in both high and low registers. Stone looked the heart of darkness in the eye and never flinched...The Eye You See With should drive admirers back to the work that first galvanized Robert Stone’s readers in the ‘70s and ‘80s." —Lee Polevoi,Highbrow Magazine —
£999.99
Lulu.com Lost Recipes The Unofficial Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Cookbook
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£12.76
Picador USA I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole
Book Synopsis"A new collection of the writings of Elias Canetti"--Trade Review"Rarely has anyone been so at home in the mind, with so little ambivalence. Far from being a source of complacency, this attitude is Canetti's great strength . . . [He] is someone who has felt in a profound way the responsibility of words . . . His work eloquently and nobly defends tension, exertion, moral and amoral seriousness." --Susan Sontag, The New York Review of Books Canetti invites--indeed, compels--judgment. His exacting presence honors literature. --George Steiner, The New Yorker
£15.19
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Mystery and Manners
Book SynopsisThis bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literatureWhen she died in 1964, Flannery O''Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her lifetime. The brilliant pieces in Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O''Connor''s lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the boldness and simplicity of her style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith. The book opens with The King of the Birds, her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. There are three essays on regional writing, including The Fiction Writer and His Country and Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction; two on teaching literature, including Total Effect and the Eighth Grade; and four on the writer and religion, including The Catholic Novel i
£15.30
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Rereadings
Book SynopsisIs a book the same bookor a reader the same readerthe second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse.These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.
£16.15
St. Martins Press-3PL Critical Writings
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£29.63
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl On Poetry and Poets
Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth centuryhe was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as The Three Voices of Poetry, Poetry and Drama, and What Is Minor Poetry? as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in The Music of Poetry, We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an endless adventure.''
£15.30
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Writing Degree Zero
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Beginning with My Streets
£13.82
Fsg Originals This is Running for Your Life
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£22.49
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Too Much and Not the Mood
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£14.40
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Slight Exaggeration
Book SynopsisA new essay collection by the noted Polish poet.
£17.10
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Sallies Romps Portraits and SendOffs
Book SynopsisSixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist.
£19.00
Fsg Originals The Unreality of Memory And Other Essays
Book SynopsisTerror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily.* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills.We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase Did you see? The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten-and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titan
£14.45
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Putting Myself Together
£24.00
Penguin Random House LLC The Fun of It Stories from the Talk of the Town Modern Library
£999.99
Random House Publishing Group Tales Poems and Other Writings Modern Library
Book SynopsisFrom short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology-the first of its kind in fifty years-gathers together all of Melville’s tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose poems, literary criticism, letters, lectures, and poetry. Though few realize it today, poetry was Melville’s abiding passion; yet his poetry has never received the recognition it deserves, until now. Containing many writings available nowhere else, and edited by leading Melville scholar John Bryant, Tales, Poems, and Other Writings includes a comprehensive introductory essay and extensive, in many cases groundbreaking, editorial commentary. It opens a window onto Melville’s writing process-he was a ceaseless reviser and experimenter-and reveals h
£21.38
HarperCollins The Passionate Eye
£14.25
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Republic and other works
Book SynopsisA compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
£10.99
