Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221262Author Sophie ChauhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777403Author Lawrence WeschlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778014Author Walt AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

One of Bustle's Best Books of MayA feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959056960Author Martin BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm * 20mm

Lessons of Decal is a queer-feminist meditation on reading and learning, a bibliophilic memoir, in a series of lyrically spun experimental essays. A decal is a copy, a transfer of forms and knowledge, something that sticks. In this book, I ask how we or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627344005Author Tomasz WitkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807070857Author Nancy MairsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389231410Author Ravish KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy-an economy that has little to do with sharing...

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556439193Author Martin KeoghFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably France's greatest living public intellectual. The essays span six decades of his career, addressing topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181003Author Dan SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 243g

What exactly is it we want from dogs today? This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal-in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350330Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988628632Author Mia McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Bgd Press, Inc.Publisher Bgd Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Musings Series 1 | Musings Series 2George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934824573Author Dubravka UgresicFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 449g

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World. Freedom and...

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This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece-the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists,...

George Yeo: Musings Series One and Series Two available as a set hereGeorge Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range...

It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom "every day is judgment day" (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis-in typical wry fashion-once referred to as the field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725524Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 133mm...

Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's works significantly expands and enriches the current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890597Author Shayla LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590566Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability...

"An insightful book packed with wonderful writing, practical advice, and hope for a better, kinder future." -Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A LifeYou're ready to give up. Throw up your hands and walk out the door. You don't know what else to say-to some...

There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020511Author Lawrence WeschlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299380Author Marshall SahlinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645048636Author Wallea EaglehawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint RevolutionariesPublisher RevolutionariesWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters...

In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first...