Cinema of pain

Original essays argue that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain ...

New york elegies

Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to obs...

Animal wife

Animal Wife was selected as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award by New York Times bestselling author Ann Hood, who says, “From the first sentence Animal Wife grabbed me and never let go. Sensual and intelligent, with gorgeous prose, it made me dizzy with its exploration and illumination of th...

Seven samurai swept away in a river

A literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author’s time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas.

In the present moment

An engaging and sumptuously designed examination of the influence and impact of Buddhism on art in North America from the post-war period to the present.In Buddhist teaching, the concept of being in the present moment refers to a practice of living mindfully with full awareness of the world, incl...

Dark emu

Contradicts the conventional wisdom that native peoples were primitive hunter-gatherers

The passenger: thailand

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.  IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad • The Country of Spirits by Emma Larkin • Monarchy Under Attack by Claudio Sopranzetti • plus: soft po...

Dostoevsky’s "crime and punishment"

A chapter-by-chapter guide to Dostoevsky’s most popular novel that reveals how Crime and Punishment works. Narrative strategy, why the novel is not a whodunit but whydunit, and clear explanations of the novel’s ideological debates.

Indecent (tcg edition)

Based on real events, a provocative new drama from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright about one of Broadway’s greatest controversies.

The image of jews in contemporary china

Bookstores in Chinese cities are stocked with dozens of Chinese-language books on how Jews conduct business, manage the world, and raise their children. At least ten universities throughout China offer popular Jewish Studies programs, some with advanced degrees. Yet there are virtually no Jews in...

Sexuality and the body in new religious zionist discourse

Religious-Zionism developed in Israel as an attempt to combine halakhic commitment with the values of modernity, two networks of meaning not easily reconciled. This book presents a study of the discourse on the body and sexuality within religious-Zionism as it has developed in recent decades, inc...

The river of time

This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics.

Word and image in russian history

Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importa...

Canadian graphic

Critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. Draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to ask why and how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic boo...

The memory of babel

“The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter.”—Elle Magazine In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future...

Help your boss help you

Current, climate

Selected poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley’s introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong’s poetry...

El norte

A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads

Body & glass

This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.

Keys to the gift

Yuri Leving's Keys to “The Gift”: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (1934–1939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since ...

Like a sword wound

Living jewishly

In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel? To affiliate with traditional Jewish institutions? To care about Jewish continuity, ritual and tradition? As a member of this exclusive community, Stefanie Bre...

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For the good of the nation

Through an innovative network of local associations, Jewish leaders in interwar Poland cooperated to aid orphaned children. Their work exemplifies the goal to build a Jewish future. Translations of sources from Yiddish and Polish describe the lives of Jewish children and the tireless efforts to b...

React for real

Adopting elixir

From darkness to light

A compilation of personal testimonies of six Holocaust survivors. Amid their immense pain and suffering, they overcame every hurdle they encountered and realized their dream to live in Israel. Their love for Israel and their creation of families embody children, grandchildren, and great-grandchil...

Wolf

An anti true crime novel about patricide, adolescent desire, and Southern working class life.

Free to obey

What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany’s defeat, a...

A history of modern japan

"Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." —The Daily TelegraphIn A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history—from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japan...

Hatred of translation

A book of essays on dynamic, transgressive 20th century figures and the necessity and perils of translating their work.

Wittgenstein's ethics and modern warfare

Explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and cultural representations of the Great War. The book suggests a reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s moral philosophy by relating it to the philosopher’s own war experience, applying this revised concept of ethics to analyze the ethical dimension o...

Jewish city or inferno of russian israel?

This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewis...

Identity and pedagogy

This pedagogical and sociological analysis of Shoah education in Israeli state schools is based on an empirical survey conducted from 2007–2009 among junior high school and high school students, teachers and principals in general and religious schools, and experts in the field. It explores issues...

More than a native speaker, third edition

Accelerate your journey from novice to skilled teacher! In this newly updated third edition, learn step-by-step how to effectively teach English abroad. Gain valuable tips and resources for teaching in an unfamiliar educational system, working with students of varying ages and skill levels, and ...

Alternative and bio-medicine in israel

This book explores the macro and micro social contexts in which alternative and bio-medicine co-exist in Israel. It includes a history of alternative health care in Israel and analysis of current policies and dilemmas regarding different forms of health care, and provides an in-depth analysis of ...

Inside iran

U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism in this accessible ...

Both/and thinking

An insightful and inspiring book on using "both/and" thinking to make more creative, flexible, and impactful decisions in a world of competing demands.Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our individuality while also being a team player? How do we balance work and life? How can we i...

Language games: innovative activities for teaching english

ESOL teachers use language games to increase motivation, provide authentic and meaningful language practice, increase student engagement, and infuse the classroom with fun. This volume describes a variety of innovative games used today in language classrooms around the globe, reflecting differen...

Mostly water

From women cowboys to arctic villages, Mary Odden’s linked essays transport the reader along light-filled paths at the top of a shrinking world.

The reasons for the commandments in jewish thought

This classic work by early-20th-century Jewish humanist and scholar Isaac Heinemann surveys the crucial phases of Jewish thought concerning correct conduct as codified in the commandments. Heinemann provides his own systematic insights about the intellectual, emotional, pedagogical, and pragmatic...

And the birds rained down

An award-winning and haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection! Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out ...

Spatial concepts of lithuania in the long nineteenth century

This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either “competed” in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia’s Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite...

Strange tales from japan

Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories!Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside.The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeanc...

The parisian

A “sublime” (Zadie Smith) debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle fo...