Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354894268Author Anirudh SuriFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 360mm * 160mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631434Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook.The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780262073035Author Vivian GornickFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015544Author Annie LiontasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 154g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393346367Author Clive JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hitchens, IntroductionChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374251468Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint 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 9781513220031Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven...

From the editor in chief of The Atlantic comes a collection of essays examining Donald Trump's corrupted notions of American "heroism" and "cowardice." An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary...

An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work – on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman,...

A rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809819Author Agnes CallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888300657Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

"L'interrogation n'a pas change a 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferriere Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litterature canadienne de l'Universite de l'Alberta recevait l'auteur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306246Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice...

Will the library of the future be "bookless"? Will reference librarians disappear? Will information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of curious librarians. Perhaps, like them, you too are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482823Author Valerie SteikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALLWe need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away?We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex...

Stimulating. 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...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots,...

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends,...

This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for...

Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.Across the lectures, or talks, given...

Harvey Dorfman was an educator for twenty-seven years before entering the field of sport psychology. His stature in the field grew significantly during the twenty-six years of his second career. But through most of both professional pursuits, he was also...

Author Marie Corelli’s brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It’s a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958094518Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Eastover Press LLCPublisher Eastover Press LLCWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206929Author Oscar WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We're as...

An investigation of misinformation and fracturing in contemporary American political culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595349415Author Gretchen LeglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Trinity University Press,U.S.Publisher Trinity University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Playwright Tony Kushner is a voice of intellectualism, neo-socialism, gay activism, and political outrage in an era when political pendulum has swayed to the right. Through scalding humour, thought, and compassion, he explores political dynamics and the...

'We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We’re as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417007331Author Andrea K hlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...