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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was) Colette Shade 9780063333970
RRP: $20.63$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063333970Author Colette ShadeImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Question of Palestine Edward Said 9781804271353
RRP: $16.76$14.24This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate – one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is... -
Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays John Lee Clark 9781324086413
RRP: $18.05$15.66Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life... -
Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America Gary Reger 9781682832288
RRP: $42.51$24.54Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the "Great American Desert," Americans have grappled with the radical differences between the humid East and the arid West. Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America collects a... -
We're Alone Edwidge Danticat 9781529439212
RRP: $25.80$17.22Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall,... -
The Ways of Paradise Peter Cornell 9781804271063
RRP: $14.18$12.05In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace... -
Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History Nancy Dixon 9781496853646
RRP: $32.19$27.36Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, Shanna M. Salinas, Matthew Teutsch, and Marcus... -
Somos Tejanas!: Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas Jody A. Marín 9781477330609
RRP: $139.32$118.42An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain... -
The Norton Reader Melissa A. Goldthwaite 9781324070528
$63.52Stimulating. Entertaining. Fresh. A treasure trove. These are just some of the words reviewers use to describe the Sixteenth Edition of The Norton Reader. Essays on timely issues and enduring ideas will welcome and engage students, and trusted... -
Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part II Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche 9780520410305
RRP: $161.25$137.06In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist... -
A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York Gay Talese 9780063392212
RRP: $21.92$18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063392212Author Gay TaleseImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Unsignificant Srikanth Reddy 9798891060067
RRP: $23.21$16.71The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award–finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.True to its title, The Unsignificant is concerned with what it’s... -
Recombinant Theory Joel Katelnikoff 9781773855790
RRP: $29.61$25.17Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete... -
Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part I Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche 9780520409897
RRP: $161.25$137.06In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist... -
An Inconvenient Place Jonathan Littel 9781804271124
RRP: $16.76$11.04What is a place? A place where things happened, horrible things, the traces of which have been erased? Ukraine, for a long time, has been filled with these ‘inconvenient places’ which embarrass everyone, no matter which side of post-Soviet memorial... -
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays Ross Gay 9781643756356
RRP: $21.92$16.32From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet Ross Gay, a fresh new volume of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.The author of the New York Times... -
A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands Dagoberto Gilb 9780826366825
RRP: $28.32$24.07A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and history of the Southwest, Mexican American identity, and his own family... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Roxane Gay 9781472158659
RRP: $14.18$12.05Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society-state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of... -
Here, Now: Essays Michelle Suzanne Mirsky 9780810147843
RRP: $28.32$24.07A deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss. In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that followed, she produced a profound and provocatively... -
We're Alone Edwidge Danticat 9781529439236
RRP: $20.63$19.92Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall,... -
I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations Diana Evans 9781784744243
RRP: $24.50$20.82I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. “You can lie down if you want”, she says. “I mean it’s fine, be comfortable, “ so I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being... -
Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays Eavan Boland 9781800171701
RRP: $32.25$22.34At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work - poems and prose. Together hey transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable impact throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major feminist thinker and essayist. She... -
Recombinant Theory Joel Katelnikoff 9781773855783
RRP: $63.15$43.42Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete... -
Bequeath: Essays Melora Wolff 9780807182772
RRP: $28.32$20.54What should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff's Bequeath presents a flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to solve the mysteries of bequeathed artifacts, family... -
The Labyrinth Jens Baggesen 9780192898517
RRP: $14.18$12.05'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a genre-bending and highly personal travel book that... -
The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature Jack E. Davis 9781683404620
RRP: $32.19$23.21Fall under the spell of Florida’s natural environmentIn this captivating collection, Florida’s most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved... -
On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning Richard Holloway 9781805302919
RRP: $24.50$16.55In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life. Here, then, are the big asks: is there a God? How can we forgive? Where does creativity come from? How can we face loss and death? How can we live a good... -
The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary Ciarn O'Rourke 9781739090210
RRP: $18.06$15.35A week-to-view diary, this elegant and practical publication gathers extracts from twenty years of outstanding writing from Irish Pages (the island’s premier literary journal) and The Irish Pages Press (“British Book Award Small Press of the Year 2022,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $18.06$15.35Subtotal: -
The Faith of an Artist John Wilson 9781032270890
RRP: $36.11$31.32First published in 1962, The Faith of an Artist presents assembled personal statements of more than twenty men of creative genius in the present generation- poets, painters, architects and dramatists, novelists, and composers. These are all men of... -
South Korea: The Passenger Various 9781787705159
RRP: $24.50$16.10Eighty years ago, at the end of a devastating fratricidal war, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, completely dependent on the United States for security and development. Today it’s the tenth economy in the world, dynamic and... -
Naples: The Passenger Various 9781787705319
RRP: $24.50$16.55In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where to look for the ordinary,... -
Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History Nancy Dixon 9781496853639
RRP: $126.42$107.46Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, Shanna M. Salinas, Matthew Teutsch, and Marcus... -
Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters To Power Ahmed Olayinka Sule 9781739353773
RRP: $32.25$27.41Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere: Letters To Power is a collection of letters written to people in positions of authority and influence between 2008 and 2023. This is Ahmed Olayinka Sule’s first book. Born and raised in London, educated in Nigeria, he now...