Search results for """ "Red Figures""
Five Continents Editions Red Figures
Book Synopsis
£32.80
American School of Classical Studies at Athens The RedFigure Pottery
Book SynopsisInferior clays and glazes, unsuited to the red-figure style, means that the indigenous production of red-figure vases in Corinth was very limited. However for about 75 years, in the middle of the 5th century B.C., Corinthian potters tried to imitate the Athenian fashion and this book catalogues 186 pieces of their work.
£80.75
GB Posters & Merch One Piece Brooke ABYstyle Studio Figure
Book SynopsisStep into the world of One Piece with this stunning ABYstyle Studio Brook figurine! Capturing the soul and rhythm of the Straw Hat Pirates' musician, this PVC figurine showcases Brook in a dynamic pose as he passionately plays his violin. Standing 23 cm tall, the figurine is meticulously detailed, from his iconic afro and skeleton features to his flamboyant outfit, complete with his signature floral pants and bright orange feathered boa.Packaged in a window box measuring 24 x 16 x 14 cm, this collectible is perfect for display while keeping the figure safe and secure. Whether you're a die-hard fan of the series or a collector of unique anime figures, this Brook figurine is a must-have addition to your collection.- PVC figurine from the Super Figure Collection range- Height: 23 cm- Scale: 1:10
£46.97
Rp Minis The Raven Talking Figurine
£12.64
tredition Facts and figures from and with Black Green Chancellor and a Failed traffic light government
£24.99
Liverpool University Press Oxford Ashmolean Museum 5 Athenian Black and Redfigure White Ground Lekythoi
£76.00
Undena Publications,U.S. UrkeshMozan Studies 5 Reading Figurines
Book Synopsis
£47.50
Zolo Press Figures
Book SynopsisLUCAS BLALOCK'S PHOTOGRAPHS DON'T LOOK THE WAY THE WORLD LOOKS; THEY LOOK THE WAY THE WORLD FEELS. WITH FIGURES, BLALOCK (B. 1978, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, USA) TRAINS HIS CAMERA ON FIGURES BOTH HIS OWN AND NUMERICAL, ARRANGED BY CHANCE MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS.
£33.25
Running Press This Is Fine Talking Figurine
Book Synopsis
£11.76
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Action Figures Issue Three Pasts Imperfect Volume 3
£13.00
ABYSSE UK Naruto Jaraya Figurine
Book SynopsisThis fully licensed collectible Figurine is perfect for any fan.
£41.75
Figures In Motion Famous Figures of the American Revolution
Book Synopsis
£12.99
Verso Books Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five
Book SynopsisThrough a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the 19th and 20th centuries-the aristocratic Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue, Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand, Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women's activist, Elena Lagadinova-Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of socialist and communist women. None of these women were "perfect" leftists. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege, but they still managed to move forward their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause. Always walking a fine line between the need for class solidarity and the desire to force their sometimes callous male colleagues to take women's issues seriously, these five women pursued novel solutions with lessons for activists of today. In brief conversational chapters-with plenty of concrete examples from the history of the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe and contemporary reflections on the status of women in the world today-Ghodsee renders the big ideas of socialist feminism accessible to those newly inspired by the emancipatory politics of insurgent left feminist movements around the globe.Trade ReviewWe've needed this book longer than we know: celebrating and learning from revolutionary socialist women, Red Valkyries gifts us with models essential to today's struggles. Kristen Ghodsee breaks down the wall liberal feminism built in women's history, bringing to life a vision of emancipation that continues to be worth fighting for. -- Jodi Dean, author of ComradeWritten with clarity and zest, Red Valkyries is an illuminating introduction to the extraordinary lives of prominent socialist women in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. -- Sheila RowbothamIn our historical moment, quotas of women in power positions and correct manners or expressions are obfuscating the long historical link between feminism and radical politics. Ghodsee's Red Valkyries is exactly the book needed to correct this misperception and help feminism to rejoin its radical past. The five figures analyzed were fighters who pursued the feminist cause through their full engagement in revolutionary political struggle. Can we still imagine this, in our era obsessed with victimization? -- Slavoj ZizekRed Valkyries is a fascinating alternative history of the feminist movement, told from the perspective of the east rather than the west. The women Ghodsee profiles are committed socialists who realise that women's liberation is incompatible with capitalism, and who also frequently struggle against the centralisation of power within their own countries. Required reading for anyone seeking out an alternative to #girlboss feminism. -- Grace BlakeleyA beautiful book about the intimate lives and bold ideas of a range of Communist women, people who built their revolutionary dreams into reality. Ghodsee lifts up the immense contradiction between the future-oriented social hopes of these revolutionaries, these exiles from the future, and the grip of the social conventions of the present. -- Vijay PrashadFunny and politically illuminating, Ghodsee writes with the clear-sighted directness of the revolutionary women she describes. Women's sexual, political and daily emancipation were the eye of the socialist storm for Kollantai, Krupskaya, Armand and Lagadinova. Ghodsee's book breathes new life into their stories of how to create a world without patriarchy. -- Elizabeth Armstrong, Smith CollegeKristen Ghodsee's new book is a well-documented and immensely personal guide to the 20th-century East European socialist women's movement. The author extracts from silence and saves from oblivion five women who have made an attempt to change not only their own, personal history, but also political, social and cultural history of women in Europe and worldwide. It is a story about a communist revolution in which women played a significant role, creating and implementing the project of a better world for all people. Reflections on the past are not, however, used to celebrate it nostalgically, but to draw conclusions for the future - how to act to build an alternative to the hegemony of capitalism and nationalism. This well-written, passionate story about the "red Valkyries" shows that socialism is not a song of the past, but still valid and long-awaited response to the challenges of the present world. Ghodsee argues that the history is not over, but rushes forward. Speeding up, however, it needs signposts to avoid falling into the abyss. The Red Valkyries will be perfect for this role. -- Agnieszka Mrozik, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of SciencesUntil the late 20th century, you could pay close attention in school, graduate from a prestigious university with a degree in history and still never find out who Harriet Tubman was. Outrageous, right? But due to capitalist ideology and Cold War hangover, you could still do all that and never learn about Alexandra Kollontai or Inessa Armand, or any of history's great Communist women. Kristen Ghodsee's riveting account of these complicated, imperfect and inspiring lives is an outstanding corrective to our miseducation, one that's long overdue. -- Liza FeatherstoneCompelling...by telling unfamiliar and forgotten stories, [Red Valkyries] suggests there are other fronts on which the battle can be fought than those favoured by western feminists. -- Desmond Bullen * Northern Soul *Illuminating...Ghodsee equips us with five extraordinary role models whose tenacity, perseverance and dedication to revolutionary politics should serve as inspiration to anyone seeking to build a better world for all. -- Rachel Collett * Red Pepper *This is an eye-opening deep dive into an underexamined aspect of feminist history. -- Publishers WeeklyAs an expert in her field, [Ghodsee] deftly covers vast amounts of history, political theory, and complicated personal relationships....A timely and fascinating volume for those interested in Russian and socialist history. -- Halie Kerns * Library Journal *Ghodsee weaves these women's ideologies and feminist views into the larger picture of a time, that of multiple world wars, open revolution, burgeoning socialist societies, and the knowledge that extreme change was needed in dire circumstances. -- Kathleen Townsend * Booklist *A compelling book, a call for a broader understanding of the history of women's political practice, the ideas that informed it, and its implications for our own time. -- Ben Clarke * Chicago Review of Books *Any utopia first needs to be imagined. For that endeavor, Ghodsee's gripping book, with its important ideas distilled (yet not made banal) for those who might be encountering them for the first time, is available. -- Oana Uiorean * LIBER *
£14.24
Cambridge University Press Interpreting Ancient Figurines
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£61.00
Headline Publishing Group The Figurine
Book Synopsis''A beautiful, moving and thought provoking story, The Figurine is a stunning read . . . her love and passion for Greece comes through loud and clear with every word she writes'' Real Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Her love for Greece shines through and transports readers to a brilliantly drawn world'' Independent''Family turmoil, unanswered questions, romance and betrayal, all served up against the backdrop of Greece and its enchanting history'' Daily ExpressFeel the sun on your face and the sand of the Aegean islands beneath your feet as you uncover the fate of the Bronze Age figurines in the heart-pounding new novel from the No 1 bestselling author.*When Helena inherits her grandparents'' apartment in Athens, she is overwhelmed with memories of the summers she spent there as a child in the 1960s. Her remote, cruel grandfather was a general in the brutal militaryTrade ReviewA tightly wrought excavation of family history * The Mail on Sunday *Hislop's love for Greece shines and transports readers through space and time to a brilliantly drawn world * The Independent *Family turmoil, unanswered questions, romance and betrayal, all served up against the backdrop of Greece and its enchanting history * The Express *A gripping storyline that leaves no stone unturned * The Mirror *Fans of Victoria Hislop's novels will love this thought-provoking novel set in her beloved Greece * Red *
£22.50
ABYSSE UK Disney Minnie Figurine
Book SynopsisYoo-hoo! Minnie Mouse has made her way into ABYstyle Studio's collection. Created by Walt Disney himself, Minnie has lives many stories from her apparition in the cartoon Steamboat Willie in 1928. Don't forget to display her with our matching Mickey figur
£26.09
Running Press Harley Quinn Talking Figure and Illustrated Book
Book SynopsisDC Comics' wild and wonderful star, Harley Quinn, becomes your personal inspirational icon with this officially licensed, talking collectible figure Deluxe Collectible: A finally detailed, 3½ inch Harley Quinn bust mounted on a base Features 10 Offbeat and Inspirational Sound Bites: Phrases include 'Things get crazy real fast when you're Harley Quinn;' 'Look out, world, here I come;' and many more Book Included: A 48-page book tells some of Harley Quinn's greatest adventures Art Straight from the Comic Pages: Full-color classic comic art throughout the book book Officially Licensed: An authentic Harley Quinn collectible Requires three 1.5-volt LR41 button cell batteries (included).
£10.96
Running Press Wonder Woman Talking Figure and Illustrated Book
Book SynopsisThe world''s most popular female super hero returns to the big screen in Wonder Woman. This kit captures the huge audience for the enduring icon of empowerment for girls and women of all ages. It includes a 3 1/2 Wonder Woman figure featuring audio of 10 different motivational phrases, plus a 48-page book titled The Wonder Woman Way, complete with full-color artwork. Kit includes:* 3-1/2 Wonder Woman bust* Audio of 10 different empowering phrases* 48-page book titled The Wonder Woman Way with full-color illustrations throughout
£10.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Reframing Representations of Women Figuring
Book SynopsisCrossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this volume integrates text and image, essays and object pages to explore the processes inherent in gender representation, rather than resituating women in particular categories or spheres as other scholarly publications and exhibitions have done. Taking its lead from the ''Picturing'' Women project on which it reflects and builds, the volume makes a substantial methodological contribution to the analysis of gender discourse and visuality. It offers new and stimulating scholarship that confronts historical patterns of representation that have defined what women were and are seen to be, and presents new contexts for unveiling what art historian Linda Nochlin has called the ''mixed messages'' of representations of women.Trade Review'Re-Framing Representations of Women is nothing short of exhilarating - a cultural collaboration on a grand scale among scholars, artists, curators, and storytellers. The feminist images and essays assembled by editor Susan Shifrin provide the most comprehensive and nuanced picture to date of women in art, literature, fashion history, and material culture.' Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'Re-Framing Representations of Women is an exciting collection of pictures and texts that encourages critical thinking about gender in our visual world. This ambitious multimedia project examines medical engravings, advertisements and material culture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and responses to these images in contemporary art to stimulate viewers' understanding of how ideas about women have been constructed and disseminated. It provides an engaging transnational journey for readers to explore the representations of gender in the past and imagine the paths to be created for the future.' Bridget Cooks, University of California, Irvine, USA ’...thoughtfully designed and well-illustrated volume... Recommended.’ Choice ’This is a physically sumptuous book, beautifully designed with a high quality of image reproduction and a work that offers a significant contribution to existing debates around this issue in a lively and accessible manner.’ Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I Picturing: Object pages: picturing; Who's in the picture? A introduction to 'picturing' women, Susan Shifrin. Part II Figuring: Object pages: figuring; Essay: Figuring the female body; Maudelle Bass: a model body, Carla Williams; Figuring as flora; Figuring the national body; Collections essay: Bryn Mawr College suffragette pageants and parades: fashioning a central and socially integrated identity, Marianne Hansen. Part III Fashioning: Object pages: fashioning; Fashioning female identity; Fashioning the female body; Fashioning national character; Essay:Sleeves, purses, spindles: fashioning women in Cesare Vecellio's costume books, Ann Rosalind Jones; Fashioning the 2 faces of Eve: the mask of beauty and fickle fraud; Fashioning woman; Essay: Felt pictures: the phenomenological fabric of Alison Watt's Shift paintings, Kristin Swan. Part IV Portraiting: Object pages: portraiting; Portraiting conventions; Collections essay: Library Company of Philadelphia. Representative portraits of American women writers from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia, to which is appended a preliminary checklist, Cornelia King; Types and beauties series; Essay: Not-beautiful: a counter-theme in the history of women's portraiture, Susan Sidlauskas; Essay: Nationalism, lipstick, and kitchen knives: representations of power and society in the case of Vazirani, Alexandra Halkias. Part V Telling: Object pages: telling; Essay: 'Who told you that lie?': picturing Connie Boswell, Laurie Stras; Essay 'Red robe: short story': an interview with Merrill Mason, Kelly Mitchell and Merrill Mason, edited by Susan Shifrin; Bibliography; Indexes.
£145.00
Running Press Dancing with Jesus Bobbling Figurine
Book SynopsisAdapted from the wildly popular Dancing with Jesus, this humorous kit includes a bobbling Jesus figurine on a suction cup base that you can attach to your dashboard, your desk, or virtually anywhere you could use some peace and tranquility--or to just bring a smile to your face. Kit includes: 3 dancing Jesus bobbling figurine 48-page illustrated mini book including 10 dance moves with how-to instructions, along with the inspiration for each dance derived from Jesus''s life and teachings Illustrated conga line backdrop to display with your figurine
£10.98
LEGARE STREET PR Star Atlas Containing Stars Visible to the Naked eye and Clusters Nebulæ and Double Stars Visible in Small Telescopes Together With Variable Stars red Stars Characteristic Star Groups Ancient Constellation Figures and an Explanatory Text
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.75
ABYSSE UK Disney Lumiere Figurine
Book SynopsisBe our Guest! It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that ABYstyle Studio proudly presents its most charismatic figure of all: Lumiere! Standing atop a delicious cake and ready to entertain, he invites you to relive the magic and wonder from Disne
£21.74
LEGARE STREET PR Tanagra Figurines
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.75
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Action Figures Legacies
£12.34
Stanford University Press Hip Figures
Book SynopsisHip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren''t, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their momentand ours.Trade Review"Hip Figures provides a stunning evaluation of the connection between popular liberal authors of the post-war period and the import of the 'hipster' aesthetic to the re-branding of the Democratic Party's ideological platform leading up the presidential election of John F. Kennedy and into the late twentieth century . . . Grounding each chapter in nuanced and moving close readings of various novels, Szalay traces the connections between novelistic liberalism and the Democratic politicians and rhetoric operating around the time of the novels' publication . . . In sum, Hip Figures is a powerful work of literary criticism and history that calls readers to evaluate the ways in which fictional texts of the post-war period reflect and inform the Democratic Party's stylish rhetoric of interracial coalition that ultimately supports the aims of a professional managerial class." -- Richard Langer * The Year's Work in English Studies *"A persuasively argued treatise—will appeal to students of literature and liberal politics." -- Kirkus Reviews"Michael Szalay holds critical office where politics and literature merge. . . . His engrossing book, Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party sets out to correlate post-war American fiction with concrete political consequences." -- Michael LaPointe * Times Literary Supplement *"[F]ascinating . . . the specters of hip will continue to haunt our politics, and we owe Szalay a debt for laying them out in such critical detail here." -- Evan Kindley * Bookforum *"A virtue of Szalay's study is that it allows us to think about Democrats and symbolic blackness through a more useful lens than that of either race-baiting Republican demagoguery or self-congratulatory Democratic triumphalism . . . Szalay helps demystify modern progressivism's own complex racial subconscious, which, while less toxic than the right-wing variety—and sometimes even downright praiseworthy—nevertheless depends on some awfully strange brews of fantasy and projection." -- Len Gutkin * Democracy: A Journal of Ideas *"This bold and ingenious book gives us the hipster's racial background, but also a crucial glimpse into how cultural politics matter to politics in the weightiest and most straightforward sense." -- Bruce Robbins * Columbia University *"This impressive examination of racial ventriloquism and shape shifting in the postwar U.S. novel explains—through a series of often brilliant readings—how the 'hip fetish' mediated contradictions between capital and labor. Szalay has produced a compelling and creative theoretical model for examining base-superstructure relations, one that has ramifications for projects beyond the one undertaken here. This is a provocative and persuasive project, to which attention must be paid." -- Barbara Foley * Rutgers University *"Michael Szalay's tandem tale of the post-World War II U.S. novel and Democratic Party radically illuminates—indeed rewrites—the story of both. This is literary history at its finest: densely researched, methodologically allusive, hip to the pith and nerve, and sometimes slag, of writers taking the measure of the republic." -- Eric Lott * University of Virginia *
£98.60
LEGARE STREET PR Pastels et figurines
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£19.95
LEGARE STREET PR Star Atlas Containing Stars Visible to the Naked eye and Clusters Nebulæ and Double Stars Visible in Small Telescopes Together With Variable Stars red Stars Characteristic Star Groups Ancient Constellation Figures and an Explanatory Text
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£14.09
Bellwether Media Action Figures
Book Synopsis
£12.34
LEGARE STREET PR Tanagra Figurines
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£14.09
Headline Publishing Group The Figurine
Book SynopsisTHE GRIPPING NEW PAGE-TURNER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ADORED, MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER , THE ISLAND ''A beautiful, moving and thought provoking story, The Figurine is a stunning read . . . her love and passion for Greece comes through loud and clear with every word she writes'' Real Reader Review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''Her love for Greece shines through and transports readers to a brilliantly drawn world'' Independent ''Family turmoil, unanswered questions, romance and betrayal, all served up against the backdrop of Greece and its enchanting history'' Daily Express An unputdownable read with a family''s dark history giving a unique glimpse into Greece''s troubled past. Athens sparkles in Victoria Hislop''s imagination. * Concealed beneath the dust sheets in the Athens apartment she has inherited from her grandparents, Helena McCloud discovers a hidden hoard of rare
£9.87
Walker Art Centre,U.S. The Expressionist Figure
Book SynopsisThe endless expressive potential of the human body, from portraiture and social satire to fantasy and erotica The Expressionist Figure documents a collection amassed over more than 60 years and recently gifted to the Walker, which includes some 80 superlative works on paper that focus on the figure. Dating from 1900 to 2018, the drawings span more than a century of artistic experimentation in the US and Europe and were executed in mediums ranging from graphite, ink and crayon to pastel, gouache and collage. Among the artists represented are Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Christo, Chuck Close, Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, Otto Dix, Marlene Dumas, Arshile Gorky, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Egon Schiele, Ben Shahn, Zak Smith and Andy Warhol. Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of this collection, this luxurious volume includes full-page color reproductions of each drawing along with a catalog entry detailing the history of each object. Also included are an essay by the collector on his passion for drawing, and curator Joan Rothfuss’ deeply researched short essays on 14 individual works. Both beautiful and substantive, The Expressionist Figure is a testament to the pleasure of building a collection and the rewards of sharing it.
£51.00
Duke University Press Figures of Time
Book SynopsisMany contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption—a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify a perceived future threat. Examining questions of temporality in Life on Mars, the political ramifications of living under the auspices of a catastrophic future in FlashForward, and how Damages disrupts the logic of preemption, Pape shows how television helps shift political culture away from a model of rational deliberation and representation toward a politics of preemption and conformity. Exposing the mechanisms through which television supports a fear-based politics, Pape contends, will allow for the reTrade Review"Graduate students, scholars, and professions interested in media, time, and politics might find this book useful to help better understand the use of time in storytelling and its effects on politics and relatability." -- Morgan Danker * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Preemptive Narratives and Televisual Futures 1 1. The Serial Machine: Toward Figures of Time 38 2. Three Representations and a Figural: Bergsonian Variations on Metric Time, the Virtual, and Creative Becoming 73 3. Loop into Line: The Moral Command of Preemption 109 4. Damages as Procedural Television 142 Afterword. Anarchival Television 176 Acknowledgments 183 Notes 185 Works Cited 203 Index 215
£90.10
Chronicle Books Unruly Figures
Book Synopsis A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society-in science, politics, art, and more-transformative. By the author and host of the popular Unruly Figures Substack newsletter and podcast.Unruly Figures gives you access to the lives and often untold stories of twenty of history''s most fascinating individuals. Of all the rebels and revolutionaries who have acted around the world, these are often overlooked. Whether they are a bit familiar or entirely new to you, each of these historical figures provides a vivid example of what it means to live life on one''s own terms and have a lasting influence on society. In the first collection of its kind, spotlighting a young historian''s fresh view on unheralded rebels, these characters'' true stories are brought to life through enthralling narratives of their feats and an original illustration of each. Even those
£17.09
Stanford University Press Hip Figures
Book SynopsisHip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren''t, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their momentand ours.Trade Review"Hip Figures provides a stunning evaluation of the connection between popular liberal authors of the post-war period and the import of the 'hipster' aesthetic to the re-branding of the Democratic Party's ideological platform leading up the presidential election of John F. Kennedy and into the late twentieth century . . . Grounding each chapter in nuanced and moving close readings of various novels, Szalay traces the connections between novelistic liberalism and the Democratic politicians and rhetoric operating around the time of the novels' publication . . . In sum, Hip Figures is a powerful work of literary criticism and history that calls readers to evaluate the ways in which fictional texts of the post-war period reflect and inform the Democratic Party's stylish rhetoric of interracial coalition that ultimately supports the aims of a professional managerial class." -- Richard Langer * The Year's Work in English Studies *"A persuasively argued treatise—will appeal to students of literature and liberal politics." -- Kirkus Reviews"Michael Szalay holds critical office where politics and literature merge. . . . His engrossing book, Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party sets out to correlate post-war American fiction with concrete political consequences." -- Michael LaPointe * Times Literary Supplement *"[F]ascinating . . . the specters of hip will continue to haunt our politics, and we owe Szalay a debt for laying them out in such critical detail here." -- Evan Kindley * Bookforum *"A virtue of Szalay's study is that it allows us to think about Democrats and symbolic blackness through a more useful lens than that of either race-baiting Republican demagoguery or self-congratulatory Democratic triumphalism . . . Szalay helps demystify modern progressivism's own complex racial subconscious, which, while less toxic than the right-wing variety—and sometimes even downright praiseworthy—nevertheless depends on some awfully strange brews of fantasy and projection." -- Len Gutkin * Democracy: A Journal of Ideas *"This bold and ingenious book gives us the hipster's racial background, but also a crucial glimpse into how cultural politics matter to politics in the weightiest and most straightforward sense." -- Bruce Robbins * Columbia University *"This impressive examination of racial ventriloquism and shape shifting in the postwar U.S. novel explains—through a series of often brilliant readings—how the 'hip fetish' mediated contradictions between capital and labor. Szalay has produced a compelling and creative theoretical model for examining base-superstructure relations, one that has ramifications for projects beyond the one undertaken here. This is a provocative and persuasive project, to which attention must be paid." -- Barbara Foley * Rutgers University *"Michael Szalay's tandem tale of the post-World War II U.S. novel and Democratic Party radically illuminates—indeed rewrites—the story of both. This is literary history at its finest: densely researched, methodologically allusive, hip to the pith and nerve, and sometimes slag, of writers taking the measure of the republic." -- Eric Lott * University of Virginia *
£20.99
University of Texas Press Maya Figurines
Book SynopsisThe first systematic analysis of ceramic figurines from multiple regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands, this book explores the construction of the Late Classic period Maya state by considering how figurines found in household refuse deposits mirror the reTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. State and Household: Articulating RelationsChapter 2. Materiality and MimesisChapter 3. State Pomp and Ceremony Writ SmallChapter 4. From Oral Narrative to Festival and Back: Tricksters, Spirit Companions, Ritual Clowns, and DeitiesChapter 5. Figurine Political EconomiesChapter 6. Figurative PerformancesChapter 7. Comments on Maya State and HouseholdAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex
£40.50
LEGARE STREET PR Leurs figures
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£26.55
Running Press I Love Lucy Lucy Ricardo Talking Bobble Figurine
Book SynopsisBring the magic of I Love Lucy, the beloved, classic television show, to your home or office with this charming, one-of-a-kind talking bobble figurine of the iconic Lucy Ricardo!Display your love of all things Lucy with this talking figurine of the show''s leading lady!This kit includes:* Full-color Lucy Ricardo bobble figurine on I Love Lucy-branded base. When pressed, the base says classic Lucy phrases from throughout the show''s run.* A mini book featuring black-and-white and full-color photography from I Love Lucy throughout.
£10.49
Fordham University Press Startling Figures: Encounters with American
Book SynopsisStartling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in the possibility for transcendent meaning and value beyond the limits of the purely secular. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, which shed light on the narrative techniques that Catholic writers use to point their characters, and their readers, beyond the horizon of secularity and toward an idea of transcendence while also making connections between the widely acknowledged twentieth-century masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts. This book is focused both on the aspects of craft that Catholic writers employ to shape the reader’s experience of the story and on the effect the story has on the reader. One recurring theme that is central to both is how often Catholic writers use narrative violence and other, similar disorienting techniques in order to unsettle the reader. These moments can leave both characters within the stories and the readers themselves shaken and unmoored, and this, O’Connell argues, is often a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace. Individual chapters look at these themes in the works of Flannery O’Connor, J. F. Powers, Walker Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, George Saunders, and Phil Klay and Kirstin Valdez Quade.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction | 1 1 The “Blasting Annihilating Light” of Flannery O’Connor’s Art | 17 2 Disorientation and Reorientation in J. F. Powers’s Fiction | 34 3 Walker Percy and the End of the Modern World | 53 4 Tim Gautreaux and a Postconciliar Approach to Violence | 73 5 Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott | 92 6 “Life Is Rough and Death Is Coming”: George Saunders and the Catholic Literary Tradition | 112 Epilogue: Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature | 133 Acknowledgments | 147 Notes | 151 Works Cited | 165 Index | 173
£68.85
LEGARE STREET PR Figures Dévocateurs
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£15.95
LEGARE STREET PR Figures Dévocateurs
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£24.65
University of Pennsylvania Press Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture
Book SynopsisEnvisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian imagination. But in fact the red variant of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel is a singular invention of late medieval vernacular culture in Germany. This idiosyncratic figure, together with the peculiar term “Red Jews,” existed solely in German and Yiddish, the German-Jewish vernacular. These two language communities assessed the Red Jews differently and contested their significance, which is to say, they viewed them in different shades of red. The voyage of the Red Jews through the Jewish and Christian imagination, from their medieval Christian nascence, through early modern Old Yiddish literature, to modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe, Palestine, and America, is the story of this book. By studying this vernacular icon, Rebekka Voß contributes to our understanding of the formation of minority awareness and the construction of Ashkenazic Jewish identity through visual cultural encounters. She also spotlights the vitality of vernacular culture by demonstrating how the premodern motif of the Red Jews informed modern Yiddish literature, and how the stereotype of Jewish red hair found its way into Jewish social critiques, political thought, and arts through the present day. Sons of Saviors is a story about power: the Yiddish reappropriation of the Red Jews subverted the Christian color symbolism by adjusting the focus on redness from a negative stereotype into a proud badge of self-assertion. The book also includes in an appendix the full text of a significant Yiddish tale featuring the Red Jews.
£49.30
Running Press Book Publishers The Muppets Kermit Singing Figurine
£14.36
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hidden Figures
Book SynopsisBased on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Trade Review“In Shetterly and Conkling’s approachable text, the reader is introduced to four hidden figures and given a broad look at the United States’ history of segregation and fight for civil rights. Freeman’s illustrations are striking, featuring bold, fully saturated colors. Feels as fresh as the original. Delightful and informative.” — Shelf Awareness “An important story to tell about four heroines, one that will lead young readers to the longer, more-nuanced coverage available when they are ready.” — Kirkus Reviews
£7.99
LEGARE STREET PR Leurs figures
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£19.95
ABYSSE UK Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo Figurine
Book SynopsisThis fully licensed collectible Figurine is perfect for any fan.
£46.97
ABYSSE UK Hunter X Hunter Hisoka Figurine
Book SynopsisEmblematic character of the Hunter X Hunter series, Hisoka enters the SFC range of ABYstyle Studio accompanied by his famous card. Figurine from the Super Figure Collection range. Figurine in PVC - Supplied with a base representing the Hunter X Hunter log
£36.35
Harvard University Press The Social Lives of Figurines
Book Synopsis
£60.31
Princeton University Press Figures of the Future
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the presentFor years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation—one that will purportedly change the “face” of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing populations than with past and present struggles shaping how demographic trends are popularly imagined and experienced. Offering an original and timely window into these struggles, Figures of the Future explores the population politics of national Latino civil rights groups.Based on eight years of ethnographic and qualitative research, spanning both the Obama and Trump administrations, this boTrade Review"Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Best Book Award, Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Charles Tilly Distinguished Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association""Incredibly original and innovative. . . . [Figures of the Future] is an outstanding contribution to the field."---Julie A. Dowling, Social Forces"[Rodríguez-Muñiz] takes readers to the frontline of Latino advocacy and vividly describes how activists use demographic figures for political persuasion. . . . As the lofty optimism of a supposedly post-racial future was shattered by a dystopian embrace of white supremacy, many of us are still dizzy from this ride. Against this backdrop, Rodríguez-Muñiz provides us with critical tools to evaluate where we stand and where we go from here."---Sunmin Kim, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Rodríguez-Muñiz crafts a conscientious, sociologically informed narrative that is approachable yet critical, and that engages while challenging the reader." * Sociological Viewpoints *
£26.60
