Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094932Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381075Author Sraboni MunshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint TulikaPublisher TulikaWeight(grams) 198g

This book is the second collection of twenty-one essays by behavioural scientist Professor David Chan. The essays in the book first appeared in The Straits Times from March 2015 to September 2017. They discuss a wide range of topics including the...

Nathan Vass has been driving a Seattle city bus at night for the last decade. He began writing a popular blog, The View from Nathan's Bus, about his encounters with the riders of the No. 7 bus, which cuts through the heart of the city's Rainier Valley,...

Abandonment, loss, endless transitions, self-reliance, continued persistence, and fierce beauty all coexist in this compelling collection of stories of ten women who journey from victims of the child welfare system to survivors, and beyond. These women...

First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman's extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775276609Author Philippe TortellFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Peter Wall InstitutePublisher Peter Wall Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860566Author Paul GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 286g

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software...

During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Viet Nam News, Ha Noi's English-language newspaper, Huu Ngoc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The...

In The Global Left: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Immanuel Wallerstein takes stock of the practices of the left, historically in the time of its great ideals and today in the midst of the global crisis of capitalism. He underlines the urgency of seeing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982165789Author Maya PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm * 19mm

What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her...

At times of global crisis, Jonathan Schell's writings have always presented nuanced and influential alternatives to conventional thinking. The moral clarity of his reportage first entered the public consciousness with his dispatches for The New Yorker on...

Jonathan Rutherford returns here to a theme on which he has written widely, to revisit its cultural and political relevance for the new century. Identity is the means by which individuals struggle to give themselves meaning and representation, and has...

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...

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As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646793600Author Professor H L MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"...And Then I Became Gay is about the lives of young men who express the complications, adversities, and satisfactions of being a sexual outsider in North America during the 1980s and 1990s. Consisting of narratives which chronicle developmental...

Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity and Ambiguity brings together scholars from a variety of disciplinary background to assess the salience of Nietzsche for critical social theory today. In the context of global economic crises...

Waves of Change Mikko Ketovuori Iff Books

A richly illustrated historical guide to kissing in art, politics, science and literature

'A serious and scholarly study of the role of the queen consort in medieval English political life.' - Sunday Telegraph'A useful collection of sources.' - Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature'A good read ... shows [the medieval queens] as real...

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used - and abused - in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we...

Over the past decade, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. In Daddy Issues Katherine Angel draws on thinkers and writers...

First published in 1980, The Survivors is a detailed and original study of the experiences of homeless young people in central London. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 107 'newcomers', who were selected at two nightshelters and a government...

'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was...

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalism'Scintillating writing of breadth and power' Observer'Seriously precise and very...

Recupera is a book of interwoven essays and autofiction constellating around the complex nature of sisterhood. It follows two sisters as they recover from addiction. With a mix of epistolary form, lyric essay, and art writing, the work hopes to reach...

The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The River Always Wins and I Am a Teacher Every day, posits Marquis, every single human has to make a choice:...

To be American is to hoard, to collect. But what if that wasn't a bad thing? Emily Mester's American Bulk asks readers to see our national consumer obsession as more than a modern scourge-to consider consumption a complex character in a larger story of...

Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey through the contours of life as a mother, daughter, and...