Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548779Author Jon PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great...

In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop...

Jacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and...

Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140424300Author Phillis WheatleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays by first- and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533779Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Small Press) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9781570270574Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492433Author Namwali SerpellFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632061591Author Gabriela WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350439Author Tony DuvertFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Famous Female Authors Who Wrote Their Way Into History"An absolute 'must read' for anyone thinking that centuries of literature being almost exclusively dominated by men."-Library Bookwatch#1 Bestseller in SociologyFrom the first recorded writer to...

Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients. Lees follows Burroughs into the rainforest and under...

This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901900Author Natasha StaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and...

Critical thinking is an essential 21st century skill. Think Critically gives you simple, direct guidance on how to effectively assess and critique the world around you. Understand the nature of assumptions and claimsGrasp the notion of valid and...

GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays exploring what it's like to...

Trying to make sense of making an argument? This straightforward book breaks down how to build a convincing argument for any type of assessment. Find out what an academic argument is - and what it is notDevelop a toolkit for structuring an argument...

One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535957Author Chew-Bose, DurgaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm

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 *...

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the...

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social...

As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . . When you find yourself alone and downtrodden, when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645048605Author Kristy AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint RevolutionariesPublisher RevolutionariesWeight(grams) 108g

Feminine Lost explores the premise that all human beings are constructed of two energies, one masculine and one feminine. With the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, some to the extent of losing access to...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop...

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout.....

In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep...

The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that...

This collection of texts by writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukrainian history and analyses of the present with outlines of conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a...

Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years...

Where and who do we want to be? How might we get there? What might happen if we stay on our current course?Comedian, writer and activist Grace Campbell was born into a political environment that suggested only aggressive, dominant men - like her father...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

From plantation rebellion and Indigenous land theft to prison labor's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill, when we know our economies are flush...