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Book SynopsisThis uniquely shaped puzzle really does look like a UFO. The spheroidal pieces in the center may slip and slide away when you try to remove them, which makes finding the solution quite tricky. Designed by Vesa Timonen from Finland.
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THE PUPPET COMPANY TRex Hand Puppet
Book SynopsisFearsome T-Rex from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its sharp teeth, powerful jaws, and imposing presence, it sparks imagination and adventure in young minds. Ideal for children (designed to fit most adult hands, too).
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HAU Wild and Wonderful
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Leaked Footages
Book SynopsisWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing often manifested in contemporary poets such as Garous Abdolmalekian and Ilya Kaminsky, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological. Here, the camera, the closed-circuit TV, cinematographic techniques, and the cyborg are trusted for truth telling. Reality is represented in footage seen through the eyes of multifaceted speakers. In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s exploration of northern Nigeria in speculative poetry, the lyrical meets the chronicle. In this fusion of Afrofuturism with experimental poetic techniques, the reader witnesses a country ravaged by terrorism and the consequences of war, as well as the effects of these on those who survive. While the tone is grave wi
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Fordham University Press Jimmys Faith
Book SynopsisQSpirit Top 24 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2024A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potentialThe relationship of James Baldwin's life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?Despite Baldwin's disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of Christianity in works such as The Amen Corner, Just Above My Head, and others. With Jimmy's Faith, author Christopher W. Hunt shows how Baldwin's usage of those religious symbols both shifted their meaning and served as a way for him to build his own religious and spiritual vision. Engaging José Esteban Muñoz's theory of disidentification as a queer practice of imagination and survival, Hunt demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus. Baldwin's vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love's transforming possibilities, the arts serve as the (religious) medium of knitting Black community together, an agnostic and affective mysticism undermines Christian theological discourse, androgyny troubles the gender binary, and the Black child signifies the hope for a world made new. In disidentifying with Christian symbols, Jimmy's Faith reveals how Baldwin imagines both religion and the world otherwise, offering a model of how we might do the same for our own communities and ourselves.
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MB - Cornell University Press Among Women across Worlds
Book SynopsisIn Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, revealing that North Korean women asserted themselves from the late 1940s to 1975, before the Korean War began and up to the UN's International Women's Year. Kim centers on North Korea and the "East" to present a new genealogy of the global women's movement. Women of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU), part of the global left women's movement led by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), argued that family and domestic issues should be central to both national and international debates. They highlighted the connections between race, nationality, sex, and class in systems of exploitation. Their intersectional program proclaimed "no peace without justice," "the personal is the political," and "women's rights are human rights," long before Western activists adopted these ideas. Among Women across Worlds uncovers movements and ideas foundational to today's era.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Leading Generously Tools for Transformation
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Amber Books Ltd The Wild: The World's Most Spectacular Untamed
Book SynopsisWe live in an increasingly urbanised world, but there are still many magnificent stretches of wilderness unaltered by humankind. From the most remote mountains and valleys in Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina, from Europe’s primeval forest on the Polish-Belarusian border to Norway’s fjords, and from the Namib Desert to Kamchatka in far-eastern Russia to canyons in Kurdistan and rainforests in Cambodia, The Wild celebrates the beauty of uncultivated landscapes all around the globe. Arranged by continent, the book roams across landscapes and climates, from Antarctica’s dry valleys to African burning deserts, from European marshlands to Arabian rugged peaks and on to Tanzania’s craters, Indonesia’s volcanoes and New Zealand’s bubbling mud pools. Each entry is supported with fascinating captions explaining the geology, geography, flora and fauna. In doing so, the book reveals some of the world’s most naturally bizarre places. Illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs, The Wild leads the reader to the planet’s least cultivated places, from jungles to tundras. Take a step into the wild.Table of ContentsIntroduction EUROPE Near Ilimanaq, Avannaata, Greenland Øfjord, Scoresbysund, Greenland Knoydart Peninsula, Highland, Scotland Highland Cattle, Lochaber, Scotland Connemara National Park, Galway, Ireland Northern Lights, Lofoten Islands, Norway Vestvågøya, Lofoten Islands, Norway Waggonwaybreen, Spitsbergen, Norway Arctic Ocean, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway Spitsbergen, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland, Finland Oulanka National Park, Northern Ostrobothnia-Lapland, Finland Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland, Finland Soomaa National Park, Viljandi, Estonia Białowieza Forest, Belarus–Poland Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, Hesse, Germany Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France Doñana National Park, Andalucia, Spain Northern Velebit National Park, Lika- Senj, Croatia Durmitor National Park, Zabljak, Montenegro Drakolimni of Tymfi, Vikos–Aoös National Park, Greece Papingo Rock Pools, Vikos–Aoös National Park, Greece Horses, Danube Delta, Tulcea, Romania ASIA Koryasky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia Putorana Plateau, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Upper Shavlinsky Lake, Chuya Belki, Altai, Russia Ergaki, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Lake Baikal, Irkutsk–Buryatia, Russia Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, Russia Sakha, Russia Kamchatka Brown Bear, Kamchatka, Russia Lut Desert, Iran Karakum Desert Darvaza Gas Crater, Ahal, Turkmenistan Yamzho Yumco Lake, Tibet, China View from the Friendship Highway, Tibet, China Kham, Tibet, China Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China Baruun Büs, Mongolia Sükhbaatar, Mongolia Bayanzag, Gobi Desert, Ömnögovi, Mongolia Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Uygur, China Xinjiang Uygur, China Tonlé Sap, Cambodia Doi Inthanon National Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand Ijen, East Java, Indonesia Kawah Ijen, East Java, Indonesia Pulau Mawar, Johor, Malaysia Danum Valley, Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia Bornean Orangutan, Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia Scout Park, West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands AFRICA Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar Lakes of Ounianga, Ennedi, Chad Simien Mountains, Amhara, Ethiopia Hypersaline Pond, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Great Rift Valley, Kiambu, Kenya Nabiyotum Crater, Lake Turkana, Kenya Lake Bogoria, Baringo, Kenya Ugandan Red Colobus, Kibale National Park, Western Region, Uganda Semuliki National Park, Western Region, Uganda Hwange National Park, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe Angolan Giraffe, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Lilac-Breasted Roller, Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Blue Wildebeest, Ngorongoro Crater, Arusha, Tanzania Hippos, Serengeti National Park, Arusha, Tanzania Langevin River, Réunion National Park, Réunion Crowned Lemur, Montagne d’Ambre National Park, Madagascar Cascade Sacrée, Montagne d’Ambre National Park Andringitra National Park, Haute Matsiatra, Madagascar Namib Desert, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia Deadvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia Sehlabathebe National Park, Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho Mokala National Park, Northern Cape, South Africa Lango Bai, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of the Congo Cão Grande, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe Lopé National Park, Ogooué-Ivindo, Gabon Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, St Louis, Senegal Zakouma National Park, Guéra–Salamat, Chad Rhirhaia Valley, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco Canyon des Doigts du Singe, Dadès Valley, High Atlas, Morocco Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, Tamanrasset, Algeria OCEANIA & ANTARCTICA Mt Sonder (Rwetyepme), Northern Territory, Australia Ghost Gum, Northern Territory, Australia Mt Donna Buang, Victoria, Australia Cathedral Termite Mounds, Northern Territory, Australia Echidna Chasm, Purnululu National Park, Western Australia Pilbara, Western Australia Abel Tasman National Park, South Island, New Zealand Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand Champagne Pool, Waiotapu, North Island, New Zealand Tongariro Alpine Crossing, North Island, New Zealand Adelaide Island, Antarctica Adelie Penguin, Brown Bluff, Antarctica Wright Valley, Antarctica Antarctic Ice Sheet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica Wandering Albatrosses, South Georgia Vanderford Glacier, Wilkes Land, Antarctica Mt Waialeale, Kaua‘i, Hawaii Rock Islands, Palau Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands Sprouting Coconuts, Palmerston Atoll THE AMERICAS Hay River, Willmore Wilderness Park, Alberta, Canada Arctic Poppies, King William Island, Nunavut, Canada Lac La Ronge Provincial Park, Saskatchewan, Canada Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada Hidden Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada Lancaster Sound and Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada Dall’s Sheep, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, USA Yukon River, Alaska, USA Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, USA Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah, USA Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA El Nicho Waterfalls, Cienfuegos, Cuba Elqui Valley, Coquimbo, Chile Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia, Brazil Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina Puna de Atacama, Salta, Argentina
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University of Chicago Press Cave of My Ancestors Vishwakarma and the
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University of Chicago Press Religion in Plain View
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University of Chicago Press Dr. Calhouns Mousery
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Cornell University Press The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century. Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of China. Manegacha is but one of the sixty minority languages in Tibet and is spoken by about 8,000 people who are otherwise mostly indistinguishable from the Tibetan communities surrounding them. Recently, many in these communities have switched to speaking Tibetan, and Manegacha faces an uncertain future. The author uses the Manegacha case to show how linguistic diversity across Tibet is collapsing under assimilatory state policies. He looks at how global advocacy networks inadequately acknowledge this issue, highlighting the complex politics of language in an inter-connected world. The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet broadens our understanding of Tibet and China, the crisis of global linguistic diversity, and the radical changes needed to address this crisis.
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John Murray Press Oh Miriam
Book Synopsis''Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show'' ROBERT McCRUM, Independent''Our naughtiest national treasure . . . famously filthy, funny and phlegmatic . . . Oh Miriam! is Margolyes''s manifesto for a fulfilled life . . . She loves to tell it straight. And the older she gets, the straighter she tells it'' SIMON HATTENSTONE, Guardian''Irrepressible . . . A life-enhancing rollercoaster of a ride . . . this book is like Margolyes herself - outspoken, ebullient and unexpectedly wise'' EMMA LEE-POTTER, Daily Express''Snortingly funny . . . deliciously unbridled . . . There is something heroic in her unruliness. Let Miriam take the lead and enjoy the show'' RHIK SAMADDER, Observer''Insanely Trade ReviewPraise for This Much is True:There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and shockingly candid stories * Daily Mail *Startling, thrillingly outspoken, provocative, potty-mouthed and exhilarating . . . This Much is True is never boring. Her personality is so likeable she can only leave you wanting more * Daily Telegraph *As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect * Daily Express *Wickedly honest . . . When I was reading this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter * Guardian *An irreverent, straight-talking, riotous romp through an extraordinary life * Sunday Post *Miriam Margolyes is a force to be reckoned with . . . I challenge anyone not to be entertained by this follow-up to This Much is True * Good Housekeeping *
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Cornell University Press Crucible of the Incurable
Book SynopsisCrucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and with people living with the illness in the United States. He examines the multiple meanings of care in a context of a chronic, degenerative, one-hundred percent fatal, neuromuscular illness, whose most common duration is between two and five years. How do people diagnosed with ALS continue to live as well as possible, for as long as possible in accordance with the normative work at the heart of outpatient ALS care? Crucible of the Incurable shows how those touched by the situation of a person living with ALS bear this problem and this task. Given the sense of certitude around the diagnosis, given past experiences of those aware of its usual progression, and given the uncertainty of the disease''s cause and its progression for each specific person; how then do people orient themselves to the experience of life w
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MP-NEV University of Nevada My Chicano Heart New and Collected Stories of
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HarperCollins Publishers Mr Men Little Miss The New King
Book SynopsisJoin the Mr Men and Little Miss as they welcome the arrival of the new king in this charming and funny new story! It's a right royal giggle from start to finish!The new king is visiting the Mr Men and Little Miss on his royal tour and everyone is very excited. In Happyland, Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine have planted a special flower display, while in Loudland, Mr Noisy and his band have been practising day and night! But will everything go to plan and what will be in store for the new king in Nonsenseland?!The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect story time experience for children aged two up. Have you met them all?Trade ReviewThe colourful characters have been delighting children since Mr Tickle first appeared on bookshelves in 1971. The IndependentThe timeless Mr Men books capture modern stereotypes perfectly. The TelegraphThe Mr Men and Little Miss characters remain a cultural phenomenon, whose impact is felt far beyond the nursery bookshelf. The Telegraph
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Duke University Press Poor Things
Book SynopsisFor generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre “poornography”—distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Davis shows how poornography creates harmful and dangerous stereotypes that build barriers to social justice and change. To remedy this, Davis argues, poor people should write realistic depictions of themselves but because of representational inequality they cannot. Given the obstacles of the poor accessing the means of publication, Davis suggests that the work should, at least for now, be done by “transclass” writers who were once poor and who can accurately represent poverty without relying on ste
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Cornell University Press Thinking Otherwise
Book SynopsisThinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely acclaimed as the most distinguished historian of US foreign relations. This volume of essays, edited by Susan A. Brewer, Richard H. Immerman, and Douglas Little, is a testament to a scholar who published more than a dozen books during his time at Cornell University, where he delivered legendary lectures for half a century. The chapters trace LaFeber''s journey as a scholar and demonstrate his enduring influence on the history of US foreign relations by linking six of his monographs to his abiding concern about the fate of the American experiment from the 18th century to the present. Thinking Otherwise explains and assesses the scholarship of a historian whose work became canonical in his lifetime and continues to resonate throughout public policy debates.
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Insight Editions You Are Home Guided Journal
Book SynopsisFilled with gorgeous, full-color artwork, thoughtful affirmations, and prompts for self-reflection, the You Are Home Guided Journal takes you on a transformative journey toward radical self-love and compassion, inspiring and empowering you to blossom into your full potential. With carefully crafted prompts and beautiful illustrations from artist Tarn Ellis, the You Are Home Guided Journal will inspire and empower you to blossom into your full potential. Designed to guide you toward a deeper connection with yourself, this journal will help you commit to self-love with intention, dedication, and creativity, encouraging you to believe in your innate magic, to manifest your dreams, and above all to bloom. INSPIRING: This journal teaches you to love yourself as you are, helping you to develop positive thinking and self-compassion, overcome negative emotions, and improve your overall well-being. INCLUSIVE: Tarn’s evocative illustrations depict women of all colors, shapes, and sizes. PORTABLE: The journal’s compact 5.25” x 8.25” size and durable flexibound format offer plenty of writing space while being small enough to travel easily. DELUXE DESIGN: The You Are Home Guided Journal is a lasting keepsake with a vegan leather cover and a satin ribbon to mark your place. GIFT OF SELF-LOVE: Brimming with beautiful, full-color illustrations, this guided journal makes the perfect gift for anyone looking to practice radical self-love. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION: Further your self-love journey with Tarn Ellis’s accompanying book, You Are Home, and the You Are Home Affirmation Cards.
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University of Nebraska Press Basketball beyond Paper Insights into the Games
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John Wiley & Sons Bruce Songs
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John Hunt Clausewitz Myth The
Book SynopsisThe Clausewitz Myth argues that the strategist's work is largely exaggerated, and misplaced, based on common challenges that readers have experienced while trying to understand his work.
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University of Toronto Press Capitalism and Classical Social Theory
Book SynopsisCapitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical works for understanding the many crises of the contemporary world. This popular theory book introduces students to a selection of classical social thinkers and demonstrates the relevance of the classical canon in contemporary society a society marked by social inequality, insecurity, transformative AI, and the climate emergency. The fourth edition features updated examples, data, and images throughout, as well as new material on early American sociology and new literature on classical social theorists from the past five years. It reintroduces a chapter on Georg Simmel and urbanism, and it includes a new chapter exploring the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and class, race, and gender. While attentive to historical context, Capitalism and Classical Social Theory argues that classical theorists speak d
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The University of Chicago Press Vexations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Extraordinary . . . In this apocalyptic dream-vision of a poem, Gelman confronts head-on the question of what separates poetry from other uses of language, particularly the dystopian vernacular of corporate newspeak, pseudo-therapeutic jargon, PR hype, and the dolorous cant of bourgeois self-talk. . . . Surreal, often nightmarish, flecked with grim humor, Vexations is a litany of bizarre images and turns of phrase, head-spinning non sequiturs and flights of syntactical fancy." * New York Review of Books *"Gelman’s intriguingly readable Vexations is a brilliant new book-length poem composed of 220 sestets that subtly resist their form and function start to finish like well-oiled wheels. . . . The skeletal plot, polyvocal at times, proceeds not by logic but through the dislocations we all feel in a time of sociopolitical turmoil, and it is Gelman’s surreal touches and command of a highly nuanced language that propel us . . . Along with its marvelous tonal range, versatile use of language and imagination, what drives this work forward is its mysterious plot. . . Brava Annelyse Gelman, a poet who gives us a feminist epic, punchy and curiously inflected at just the right times . . . Vexations is nothing less than an astonishing, polytonal romp that vividly sustains and attempts to redeem our ecologically battered and high-tech world." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Gelman’s Vexations moves in organized disjunction through a winding narrative that insists and compels." * Harriet Books *“Vexations is a brilliant, dizzying, necessarily unnerving take on the project of the state and the varied estrangements on which it feeds. Demanding and speculative, Gelman’s book-length poem names the absurd conditions out of which we (readers), and the text itself, emerge, awakening a rage. The world Gelman creates is a strange, slant rendering of our own, delivering shock after shock of recognition in our reading of its intimacies—clarity, threat, pleasure, dread. Part mother’s account of her life with her young daughter, part encounter with Erik Satie’s nineteenth-century score of the same name, Vexations is a poem, a performance, and a score of endurance. It is a book radiant and terrifying with our time. It is afire.” -- Aracelis Girmay and Solmaz Sharif * James Laughlin Award judges' statement *"This experimental book-length poem traces a mother and daughter’s travels through a surreal landscape on the verge of ecological and social collapse." * Publishers Weekly *"Brilliant. . . Relentlessly and restlessly experimental. . . the book is also compulsively readable, a page-turner—a combination, honestly, I’ve seldom seen before." * Colorado Review *“Mesmerizing and propulsive, Vexations moves like a snake through the uncanny grass of a creeping dystopia where care blurs with surveillance, small disasters dovetail with large, and too-late leaks into still-to-come. Here, the epic veers eerie and antiheroic, immersing us in a consciousness—in a world—flooded by strange but all too familiar fears. This is an unsettling, flawlessly crafted book by a singular poet.” -- Lisa Olstein, author of "Climate"“With this stunning shapeshifter, Gelman manages to create a remarkable hybrid: a book-length poetic narrative of speculative fiction, an urgent account of a mother/daughter relationship, and a coruscating view of our ecological future. Vexations manages what many of us call literature to do: show us humanity subject to and transcendent of time.” -- Douglas Kearney, Phoenix Poets consulting editor and author of "Sho"
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Princeton University Press The Roots of Urban Renaissance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History"
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THAT COMPANY CALLED IF Bookaroo Bigger Things Notebook Journal
Book SynopsisBigger and bendier notebook - flexible in every way.
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MerryMakers The Couch Potato Plush
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MD - Duke University Press When Monsters Speak
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Harvard University Press Cecil the Lion Had to Die
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Harvard University Press Ukraine War Love
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University of Toronto Press A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek
Book SynopsisA Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism and misrepresented by mistranslations from the seventeenth century onward . Using Heidegger’s work with Greek thinking as a springboard, the book shows how the covering over of this essential thread happened. Kenneth Maly provides a frame by which those not trained in philosophy and phenomenology of experience can grasp the wider import of this rethinking of Greek philosophy. The book delves deep into key questions, preparing readers for extensive and more technical work with the key Greek words and their meanings, hidden for centuries. It includes a significant investigation of how this task requires a different way of language, how early Western thinking mirrors non-W
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University of Chicago Press Pulp Empire
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Galison Mudpuppy Jonathan Adler Helsinki Wood Domino Set
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Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Grand Old Unraveling The Republican Party Donald
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Galison Mudpuppy Constellations 101 Stargazing 500 Piece Book
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Galison Michael Storrings Dog Park in Four Seasons
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Galison Live Laugh Loathe Cross Stitch Kit
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Galison Go Shark Card Game
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MV - University of Washington Press Out of Site Survey Science and the Hidden West
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SPCK When Faith Gets Shaken Third Edition
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Governing Forests
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Elliott & Thompson Limited Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the
Book Synopsis'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why don’t eleven and twelve end in –teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds with the numbers that follow them? Admittedly, that’s probably a question that might never have occurred to you. But if you’re even remotely interested in the origins and oddities of language, it’s likely also a question you’re now intrigued to know the answer to. Nor is it the only question: take a moment to think about how our language operates and even more spring mind. Why do these letters look the way they do? Why are some uppercase and others lowercase? Why are these words in this order? How are you understanding what these seemingly arbitrary shapes and symbols mean, while doubtless hearing them read to you in a voice inside your head? And what is this question mark really doing at this end of this sentence? Books explaining the origins of our most intriguing words and phrases have long proved popular, but they often overlook the true nuts and bolts of language: the origins of our alphabet and writing system; grammatical rules and conventions; the sound structure of language; and even how our brains and bodies interpret and communicate language itself. Why Is This a Question? is a fascinating and enlightening exploration of linguistic questions you’ve likely never thought to ask. ‘Every page will make you stop, think and wonder.’ James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of England ‘Enthralling, with a riveting “who knew?” moment on nearly every page.’ Caroline Taggart, author of Humble Pie and Cold Turkey Trade Review’As entertaining as it is engrossing’ John Banville ’Enlightening, delightful’ Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library ‘Every page will make you stop, think and wonder.’ James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of England ‘Enthralling, with a riveting “who knew?” moment on nearly every page.’ Caroline Taggart, author of Humble Pie and Cold Turkey ‘Deft, informative, and packed with fascinating morsels’ Lev Parikian, author of Light Rains Sometimes Fall ‘[Paul Anthony Jones is] a first-rate collector of linguistic curios’ Times Literary Supplement
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MerryMakers GIRAFFES CANT DANCE DOLL
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Derecognition of States
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John Wiley & Sons Core Practices in Teacher Education A Global Perspective
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MC - De Gruyter Einfach Gr252n Greening the City Handbuch f252r
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Random House USA Inc Maya Angelou A Writers Journal
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