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In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. Jamaica is known for having one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, a fact that Lettman links to remnants of the plantation era-namely the economic dispossession and...
41862) Limbo: A Novel about Jamaica
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Limbo is a character driven environmental murder mystery set in the shifting sands of Jamaica's environmental policies. Flora is the dynamic leader of an environmental organization set to expose the corporate greed and political hypocrisy that has polluted so much of the Jamaica's once pristine coastal environment. Funding difficulties as well as personal crises loom as Flora attempts to take on the big business of the hotel industry despite threats...
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Caleb Smith is professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of The Prison and the American Imagination and The Oracle and the Curse and the editor of The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and other publications.
How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"
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Wow! What an amazing and unique adventure we have all enjoyed together! You have watched me grow from infancy through my formative years into my teenage years as we've learned all about my early diagnosis of "Autism" and where we would go from here. Together, we have learned so much about my unique disorder and how, along with my family, friends, community, and an incredible team of professionals and school staff in place; we have all come together...
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Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political, and spiritual achievement. Well-known as a songwriter, a poet, and a pioneer in the field of Scottish folksong, Henderson was also a highly original translator of poetry-from Gaelic, French, German, Latin, and Greek-much of it into Scots. He also translated the work of the Italian socialist Antonio...
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The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited by Confucius himself. Despite their enormous importance for Confucianism and Chinese civilization, the 305 odes have for millennia also puzzled readers. Why did the Sage include in the Canon apparently lewd poems about women promising men to "hitch up" their skirts and "wade the river," and men "tossing and turning in bed" yearning for young...
41867) On Joanna Russ
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This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism.
Best known for her groundbreaking feminist sci-fi novel The Female Man (1975), Joanna Russ has produced an important and wide-ranging body of fiction and essays. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula...
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Maurice S. Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860.
An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution
What happens to literature during an information...
41869) H G Wells: A Literary Life
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This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells' importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering...
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The world seen from two set of eyes is enthralling, especially when those eyes belong to two people who share the same genes but different lives. For example, Mel Martin's view of Alaska in the 1960s and 1970s is certainly different from Elizabeth Martin's Alaska of this century. Besides, a father and daughter can look at the same thing and see two different universes. The book stretches from the past to the future, from Alaska to Russia, and from...
41871) Auld reekie
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"Auld Reekie", sobriquet médiéval de la cité mystérieuse d'Édimbourg, évoque les spectres et les senteurs d'égouts qui planent sur la ville. Ce lieu, X est appelé à l'arpenter chaque matin après son harassant labeur nocturne au Fishmarket. Un jour, un évènement inattendu survient : X constate que son portefeuille lui a été dérobé. Dès lors, il s'engage dans une quête sans merci, entraînant de nombreuses péripéties…
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An upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive! proves that in your later years you can still be going strong... and having fun! "Old age is a shipwreck," Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious memoir of his first seven decades. He is clearly enjoying every moment to its fullest. This is a book about how time overtakes us, how reminiscence, loss, hope, pain, success, failure-the lifelong accumulation...
41873) Last Flag Flying: A Novel
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Now a major movie starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by Richard Linklater!
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-was made into an award-winning...
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Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself.
Fear of the void, terror of heights: everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called "sciences of the mind" reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the domain of mental pathologies. The fear of falling-which...
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Puisse cet ouvrage encourager chacun à vivre ses propres rêves...
S'échapper, en camping-car, à la découverte du monde, de ses sites naturels et historiques les plus remarquables, rencontrer les peuples de notre planète et vivre avec eux des moments simples mais souvent chargés de ces émotions si rares dans une vie organisée, enfin, vivre en famille une tranche de vie exceptionnelle, tels étaient les objectifs de ce long voyage.
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* An important book about one of the world's most inspirational yet least-known mythologies, written by an expert in the genre.
* One of the most comprehensive collections of its kind. Based on three years' research through hundreds of archives, revealing a treasure trove of material, some never before available to the general UK reader.
* Over 100 ancient stories, verse narratives, songs, anecdotes and fragments of wisdom, sourced from 55 different...
41877) From the Same Quiver: A Confessional Tale of Wanderlust, Friendship and the Pursuit of Self-Identity
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Kate is lost. She is sick of her job and bored with her life. When she discovers her best friend, Miette, is struggling in her young marriage, they decide to take a road trip across the country to reignite their sparks for life. Whether it is flirting with handsome men in Las Vegas or seeing the devil in New Orleans, they have the best time. But, it is only when Kate reaches an unexpected sunny destination that she finds what she is looking for: her...
41878) 2o Days of Pleasure
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NBA star Dallas Avery has one intention, woo and win Alicia Mitchell by any means necessary.
On a fun-filled jaunt across the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East, they relish their time as a couple-free to explore their magnetic connection. In Paris, the most romantic city in the world, they explore the landmarks and savor the array of pleasures they discover as soul mates.
But family, friends, the media, and society at large, have their own...
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Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997 is an expansive new volume of the longtime Chicago news legend's work. Encompassing thousands of his columns, all of which originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this is the first collection of Royko work to solely cover his time at the Tribune. Covering politics, culture, sports, and more, Royko brings his trademark sarcasm and cantankerous wit to a complete compendium of his last 14 years...
41880) Kuessipan
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Kuessipan is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people of northeast Quebec. With the grace and perfect pitch, author Naomi Fontaine (herself an Innu) conjures up a world that reads like no other, and a community-of nomadic hunters and fishers, of mothers and children-who endure a harsh and sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity.
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