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Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference....

Gautam Basu Thakur

Representing Childhood and Atrocity
Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such th...

Victoria Nesfield

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life & Culture of the Russian Silver Age
The quintessential guide to Russia’s vibrant and influential Silver Age, now in paperback   In this lavishly illustrated, elegantly written volume, John E. Bowltsheds new light on Russia’s Silver Age, the period of ...

John E. Bowlt

Soviet Prose: A Reader (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature)
This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors. They are lively and typical passages, written in varying styles, depicting historical events such a...

Ronald Hingley

The Classic Guide to Still Life and Figure Drawing: Retro Restored Edition
Proven, classic techniques for artists of all skill levels looking to learn still life and figure drawing. Improve your drawing skills by using tried-and-true methods and studio examples from the pre-digital era in ...

Edmund Koller

Kollektivitat: Geteilte Autorschaften Und Kollaborative Praxisformen 1770-1840 (Literaturgeschichte in Studien Und Quellen, 34) (German Edition)
Um 1800 wird das Paradigma individueller Autorschaft dominant und tragt entscheidend zum Verstandnis von Literatur als Kunst bei. Es lasst indes die haufig kollaborativen Praktiken des Verfassens von Texten in den H...

Werner Michler

Wild Flowers of North America: Botanical Illustrations by Mary Vaux Walcott
Now available in a new, large single volume with an appendix also listing the modern plant names, this classic collection by “the Audubon of botany” features more than 250 exquisite reproductions of Walcott’s celebr...

Pamela Henson

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Scien...

Bridgitte Barclay

2021 Calendar Kamala Harris: Kamala Harris Wall Calendar 2021 - 12 Monthly Square Calendar
Hurry to get your NOW REGULAR PRICE 17. 99$Scroll to the top of the page and click the ADD TO CART button now!Makes a Perfect Gift idea for kamala Harris & Joe Biden's supporters◆ FEATURES:- High resolution print★ 1...

SophiaTin Press

Gründung, Aufstieg und Untergang der DDR bis jetzt: Meine Lebenserinnerungen (German Edition)
Meine Lebenserinnerungen. So war die DDR aus Sicht eines Kriminalhauptkommissars a. D....

Siegfried Mikut

Picasso
One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always...

Walther F Ingo

The Changes: Refuge-Rescue-Return
Climate change is here. Charles Peters, a low-level nobody in what's left of the UN, is sent on an unexplained mission to save humanity. Madé, an Indonesian child refugee, must endure the powerlessness of 'people-pr...

Tim Cadman

Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919–1959 (1)
The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand’s most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century ar...

Peter Simpson

American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures)
Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned ...

Emily Coit

The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Framing the Global)
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global dissemination across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new perceptions of Chinese exodus, financial networks and artistic prod...

Sean Metzger

A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe (Short Histories)
The concept of a 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture North of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which ...

Malcolm Vale

Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter ...

Sean Mark

Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction
In her converge on wit and meaning in postcolonial African novel, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal sabotage of the discussion of the wise and the powerful, a work at that has played multiple what one iss i...

Gloria Nne Onyeoziri

The Bayeux Tapestry: Collected Papers
This collection of fifteen identification paper line ups from the author's initial interest in the Drapery as a cause of message on early medieval wear, through to her startling recognition of the cross-stitch's sop...

Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Why the Lyrical Ballads?: The Background, Writing, and Character of Wordsworth's 1798 Lyrical Ballads
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a...

John E. Jordan

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
An essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combination of poetry...

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Sienese Painting (World of Art)
An essential visual overview for schoolchilds and readers with an interest in Sienese art, history, and Resurgence civilization. For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of mi...

Timothy Hyman

The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary...

Dalia Kandiyoti

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst
A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature, and how can reading guide us to a deeper understanding...

Thomas Hallock

Great Book of Dragon Patterns, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 140 Designs, Expert Tips, Gallery, and More
Your guide to creating fantastic deceit of man's favorite hostile party: the dragon! An artist's reserve packed with On the east side of and Westerly dragon patterns for any medium 146 patterns of wyverns, monstrous...

Lora S. Irish

Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind
Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous artists of his generation and a scholar who engaged in public debate ...

C. Oliver O’Donnell

Herodotean Inquiries
Herodotus' Inquiries should be regarded as our best and most complete document for pre-Socratic philosophy. Without being a work of philosophy, its plan and intention cannot be understood apart from philosophy. Here...

Seth Benardete

Meditation: The Buddhist Art from Cave 254 of the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang
The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are a treasure house of ancient Chinese art. Even today, murals and painted sculptures remain in 492 of the caves. This book aims to take Cave 254, dating from the Northern Wei Dynasty...

Qi Chen

2021 Planner Faith God With your hope: 12 month calendar Weekly plan yeary appointment calendar, Gold Planning :Healthier, Exercise,Family ties,Love ... professionals, teachers or Christians,use d
2021 Planner Conviction Lord With your hope  You can carry it in your pocket , duty, appointments, bookings, agendas for all your daily notes and concludes recorded in inspirational refers to and Bible lyrics!60-mon...

Modern Art

Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Marvel in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of “last stuffs” in Don DeLillo's works-stuffs like oblivion, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then al...

Michael Naas

Connie: 2021 Planner - Personalized Name Organizer - Initial Monogram Letter - Plan Days, Set Goals & Get Stuff Done - Gold Calendar & Schedule Agenda (6x9, 175 Pages) (2021 Golden Planner Volume 1)
You Just found the Pure Natal day Nose Believed abstraction!Get a mind launch on staying organized with this simple, stylish, elegant 5x8 creator. It features a condensed full hour sight which provides lined capacit...

Planners For Everyone

Hilma af Klint: Plain Unlined Notebook - Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood (1907)
ADULTHOOD by Hilma audio Klint    Mask Art - Clutch IV, The Ten Largest, By no means. 7, Adulthood (1907)    Blotter criterion for daily use - Take notes, trifle your estimations, trifle, journal    Makes for a uniq...

Art Café Press

Dio Chrysostom Orations: 7, 12 and 36 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library) (Greek Edition)
This is an volume of the Greek reference book with commentary of three speeches by Dio of Prusa (Dio Chrysostom) which are particulary important for the intellectual version of the Greco-Roman world. They are full o...

Dio Chrysostom

Big Books
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Howard Junker

Aventure indienne: de Voltaire (French Edition)
Aventure IndienneVoltaire, écrivain et philosophe français (1694-1778)Ce livre numérique présente «Aventure Indienne», de Voltaire, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directem...

Voltaire

Geometry & Art
A definitive regarding at how geometry changed the race of art forever. Geometry & Art follows the artisans of the rejuvenation, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. Influ...

David Wade

The History of the Book in East Asia (The History of the Book in the East)
The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of pr...

Cynthia Brokaw

Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons
In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England. Popular acto...

Heather McPherson

Set Me on Fire Before I Blow
"I don't want to be everyone anymore. I especially don't want to be a mother," Sabater writes in the launch article of her art copy and modern youth confession chair. Set Me On Fire Before I Blow is a mixed-medium m...

Kiki Sabater

Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender (Toronto Italian Studies)
Housing a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth centurial, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly essay identifies and analyzes a Classic humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Invigoration Petrarchism. ...

Aileen Feng

Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New Perspectives (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Thomas Hardy penned nearly quinquagenarian narratives, but in gall of this impressive number, his contributions to the sort have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international shooting match of int...

Juliette Berning Schaefer

The Pilgrim's Staff: Poems Divine and Moral (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Pilgrim's Staff: Poems Divine and MoralLove, from Surrey t0 Shirley, it extend: our acquaintance and en ahler ar to carry on the lyric line from Shirley to Stevenron, and to. About the PublisherForg...

Fitz Roy Carrington

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