Taking shelter

Taking Shelter: Housing Finance for the World's Poor explores recent innovations in housing microfinance, presented by the innovators themselves: from field researchers and financial providers, to investors and regulators. It is a key reference to any reader interested in expanding housing financ...

A zero-sum game

Debut from Mexico20-nominated author examines humanity's dark side in fatalistic satire of consumer society and the cult of the individual.

That savage gaze

Imperial Russia’s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.

Programming elixir ≥ 1.6

This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers, completely updated for Elixir 1.6 and beyond. Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, butget them right without all the locking an...

Army of lovers

Underwear art and queer punk parties: a portrait of artist, activist and civic hero Will Munro.

The most of it

Delectable fables with questionable morals--sweet and sharp and over too soon.

They will drown in their mothers' tears

This daring speculative novel tackles terrorism and anti-immigrant hysteria, combining lyric intensity with the tools of science fiction.

The global novel

What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century’s best-known writers—including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante—and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees...

The missing year of juan salvatierra

This story about family secrets and art is a feast of images lingering long after the final page is turned.

The magician of vienna

In this Cervantes Prize-winner, fiction invades autobiography—and vice versa—as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative memory loss.

The lucifer principle

The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping na...

Geography of rebels trilogy

English debut with three linked novellas by influential cult Portuguese writer interweaving history, poetry, and philosophy into transcendent literary vision.

My heart hemmed in

"Marie NDiaye is a master of creating menacing, off-kilter worlds that speak to the truth of human experience."—Ayşegül Savaş, author of White on WhiteThere is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by...

Action in the orchards

A debut collection of playfully irreverent ekphrastic poems inspired by the author’s engagement with art, architecture and music

The ward uncovered

An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto’s long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood. In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What the...

How i learned to drive (stand-alone tcg edition)

The first stand-alone edition of Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

The russian cinema reader (volume i)

This two-volume reader consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. These volumes are intended to accompany underg...

A noble radiance

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with po...

The 6 principles for exemplary teaching of english learners: academic and other specific purposes

This volume in the groundbreaking 6 Principles series focuses on English for specific purposes (ESP) and how it plays a critical role internationally as adult learners acquire English for study, work, and life. The field of ESP has come into increasing prominence as globalization has motivated a...

Boomerangs in the living room

Rex Wilder’s second collection introduces the world to a new form: the boomerang, a four-line nouveau haiku, an anti-Tweet that aims for permanence in an evanescent world. These \u201cadmirable throwaways\u201d (so nicknamed by Richard Wilbur, who advised the author on their shape) must rhyme the...

Playwriting

An essential guide to the craft of playwriting from the author of The Libertine.

Vladimir soloviev and the spiritualization of matter

While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the inter...

All the young men

A gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America's fight against AIDS.In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits...

Programming groovy 2

Before they were titans

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literar...

Silent love

In this study the numerous literary and autobiographical allusions in Nabokov’s novel are annotated and analyzed, which reveals an altogether different love affair the main character had than the narrator wishes the reader to believe.

The fat woman next door is pregnant

It is the glorious second day of May, 1942. The sun is drawing the damp from earth still heavy with the end of a long Quebec winter, the budding branches of the trees along rue Fabre and in Parc Lafontaine of the Plateau-Mont-Royal ache to release their leaves into the warm, clear air heralding t...

Gone to pitchipoi

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles south of Radom, had in 1931 a population of nea...

Room temperature

Toxicon and arachne

This virtuosic poetry collection asks: how does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe? In Toxicon & Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth...

From fashion to politics

Not only fashion and politics, but scholarship, gender, religion, discrimination – every hot button issue is examined in the story of the triumphant rise of Hadassah. A fascinating and important book. —Rabbi David Wolpe. Sinai Temple, Los AngelesHadassah, the Women’s Zionist organization of Ameri...

Uniform justice

Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate the death of a young cadet. The boy has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community ...

Hbr guide for women at work (hbr guide series)

Make your career what you want it to be.Women regularly face unfair challenges in the workplace--from being passed over for promotion to being ignored in conversation. Unconscious bias and negative assumptions are working against them. As a woman, how can you break through these barriers and get ...

Strange journey

This biographical history follows John R. Friedeberg Seeley’s iconoclastic career as a pre-eminent 1950s “Pop Sociologist.” Seeley was the author of Crestwood Heights, a seminal work of postwar social science. He was also a controversial leader of the postwar mental health movement, and a foundin...

Madame victoria

Remains of a woman are discovered in Montréal: who was this “Victoria” and why can she not be identified?

Making market systems work for the poor

‘The M4P approach fosters understanding of the functions and players within market systems and how these can be strengthened in order to better serve the needs of the poor.' Alan Gibson. This collection, all inspired in some way by Gibson’s teachings, is essential reading for practitioners, funde...

House rivals

In the new novel in Mike Lawson’s critically acclaimed series, Joe DeMarco is dispatched to aid a young activist in North Dakota, and confronts an oil tycoon and a pair of fixers whose tactics are all-too-familiar.As a fixer for influential congressman John Mahoney in Washington, D.C., Joe DeMarc...

My real name is hanna

Inspired by the story of Esther Stermer and her family who escaped the Nazi's and survived underground for 511 days.

Reflective teaching, revised edition

How can teachers collect evidence about their teaching? This reflective question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press’s best-selling Reflective Teaching, which explores different approaches to how teachers can reflect on their practice in seco...

Language and culture in eighteenth-century russia

Victor Zhivov's Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia is one of the most important studies ever published on eighteenth-century Russia. Historians and students of Russian culture agree that the creation of a Russian literary language was key to the formation of a modern secular cultur...

Festival of shadows

**A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead?Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as t...

Complete works, volume i

Outpatients

Need surgery? You better travel. Globalization produces a lot of odd results around the world. One of them is that Hungary has become the dentistry capital of Europe: thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns and heavy government support, more people go there for dental care than to any other cou...

The nationalist revival

Why has nationalism come roaring back? Trump in America, Johnson in the U.K., anti-EU parties in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and nativist or authoritarian leaders in Turkey, Russia, India, and China—Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance...

Ingles instantaneo

Learn 4,000 new words in English!Spanish speakers learning English will find that words in English are nearly the same as their Spanish counterparts, except for the word ending. This unique book identifies the 23 most common word-ending patterns between these languages and provides almost 4,000 w...

Reaching mithymna

A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.

Rockabye and other short pieces