Atopias

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that...

Japanese stories for language learners

A great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery—especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with English and Japanese language versions appearing on facing pages. Tak...

Telling tales

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the tales overrun, run offensive,or run clean o...

The possibility of a world

Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.

Fast into the night

A woman, her dogs, and their journey North on the Iditarod trail.

The politics and poetics of friendship

First mountain

The poet’s journey to bury her grandparents’ ashes in China becomes a dramatic narrative about ancestral landscapes, family, and ritual, with a tragic climax.

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Polarized

An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarizedMany continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded...

47 ronin

A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike. Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge—and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starring Keanu Reaves—47 Ronin is the epic tale of a heroic band of Samurai warriors who defy the Japanes...

The white review no. 12

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, int...

Cruel futures

A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority.

Dari-english/english-dari dictionary & phrasebook

<p><strong>The essential Dari language resource!</strong></p><p>Dari, spoken by over 20 million people worldwide, is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Closely related to the Persian (Farsi) of Iran, and the Tajik of Tajikistan, the languages have been spl...

The hawthorn archive

Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.

White dancing elephants

Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories) Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women's Lit and Bookish.com 35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Colle...

Ordinary ethics

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is...

Farsi-english/english-farsi (persian) concise dictionary

Look both ways

Two young geologists embark on faraway lives amidst the strictures of their time; their granddaughter blends their story and hers in this one-of-a-kind account.

A history of too much

These are poems born of facets and interrogations of citizenship and national dissolution in the Greek cultural landscape of economic austerity, of the self in love, too, with topoi imbued with history, eros, and loss. The terrains are multiple and transient, the subjects both quotidian and extra...

Managing northern europe's forests

First and only comprehensive collection of forest histories from the North of Europe Thorough and critical examination of a region where a number of distinguished and influential ideas of global resource management originated from (scientific forestry, sustainability, close-to-nature-for...

Geochemistry and the biosphere

This new volume introduces the Russian-Ukrainian scientist Vladimir I. Vernadsky, largely known in Eastern Europe through his groundbreaking 1926 monograph, The Biosphere.

Glasgow girls

At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less atte...

Me and the biospheres

Anyone suffering from the global warming blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiments of our time: Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the world's largest laboratory for global ecology ever built. John Allen's memoir, Me and the Biospheres, ...

Karman

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find ...

The white review no. 11

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, int...

If you cross the river

“An allegorical coming-of-age story told in a trusting and curious voice . . . Damas keeps us enthralled as [François] unravels the family mystery.” —BBC

Paul hanly furfey

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

The canadian kingdom

An integral part of Canada’s political culture, constitutional monarchy has evolved since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. How has it shaped twenty-first-century Canada? How have views on the monarchy changed? Eleven experts on the history of Canada’s Crown take up these q...

Forewarned

Packed with fun anecdotes and startling facts, Forewarned is a myth-busting guide to prediction.

Stategraphy

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...

Another kind of madness

“A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound.” —KIESE LAYMON

Walking new york

Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York—a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Baba yaga laid an egg

Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga - one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology

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Compass rose

In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them.

Snake iii

Snake—the Hunger Sutras is the third book in the Snake Quartet. By now snake has carried the lost voices—from the smallest single celled whisper to the bellow of more complex creatures as she wanders the empty Earth.

Violence

Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.

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California greenin'

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coasta...

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Trance mediums and new media

This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a new perspective to current debates on the “renaissance of the religious“. Situated in the field of media anthropology it follows the question of how spirit possession is transformed by processes of globaliza...

Exploring lincoln

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life to consider, new facets of his persona t...

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Portland confidential

Portland's biggest dirty little secret: The untold story behind the Great Portland Vice Scandal of 1956-57.

The shame of losing

Just as Sarah Cannon is settling into suburban life with her young family, she is thrown into a tailspin when a horrifying accident nearly kills her spouse.