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The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition:...

Author: Ryan Holiday
ISBN: 9780593949092
Format: Paperback
$79.20

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents...  Read More >>

Make Your Own Movies: A Beginner's Guide to Filmmaking with Whatever Equipment You Have: A Guide to the Craft of Film Making

Make Your Own Movies: A Beginner's Guide to Filmmaking...

Author: Miguel Parga
ISBN: 9788410650015
Format: Paperback
$64.69

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling...  Read More >>

Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance

Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance...

Author: Richard Bruce Nugent ,  Arnold Rampersad
ISBN: 9781531508241
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Step into the Jazz Age with a riveting novel of queer Black life, set amid the artistic rebellion of the Harlem...  Read More >>

The City in the Distance

The City in the Distance

Author: Jean-Luc Nancy ,  Cory Stockwell
ISBN: 9781531508975
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Nancy’s book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense...  Read More >>

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making...

Author: Saul Noam Zaritt
ISBN: 9781531509170
Format: Paperback
$92.40

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture,...  Read More >>

Becoming Real

Becoming Real

Author: Laraine Herring
ISBN: 9781646034871
Format: Paperback
$47.39

According to editor Laraine Herring, “ Speculative memoir is an umbrella genre in which the questions of the memoirist’s...  Read More >>

Arroyo Circle: A Novel

Arroyo Circle: A Novel

Author: JoeAnn Hart
ISBN: 9798989178445
Format: Paperback
$52.67

ARROYO CIRCLE starts with wildfires, filling Boulder, Colorado with smoke, as Shelley, a white, middle-aged handmaiden...  Read More >>

The Folklore of Devon

The Folklore of Devon

Author: Mark Norman
ISBN: 9781804131459
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before...  Read More >>

Fishes with Funny French Names: The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Fishes with Funny French Names: The French Restaurant...

Author: Debra Kelly
ISBN: 9781835536964
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The story of what happens when an essentially Parisian institution travels and establishes itself in its neighbour's...  Read More >>

Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation and Subjectivity in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema

Reimagining the Italian South: Migration, Translation...

Author: Goffredo Polizzi
ISBN: 9781835537237
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent...  Read More >>

The Second Shot: A Green Beret's Last Mission

The Second Shot: A Green Beret's Last Mission

Author: Gene Yu
ISBN: 9781662510540
Format: Paperback
$44.85

The riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former...  Read More >>

Pockets: Illustrations Book

Pockets: Illustrations Book

Author: Sekuda
ISBN: 9784756258977
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850

Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives...

Author: Charles Beatty-Medina ,  Melissa Rinehart
ISBN: 9781611865066
Format: Paperback
$44.00

A remarkable multifaceted history, this book examines a region that played an essential role in America’s post-revolutionary...  Read More >>

Grey Sex: Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination

Grey Sex: Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination

Author: Alexandra Kogl (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
ISBN: 9781509558889
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Grey sex is saying “yes” but thinking “no.” It’s feeling invisible, like you’re not even in the room. It’s wondering...  Read More >>

Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston Woman's Journal, 1904

Vital Issues: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the Boston...

Author: Gary Scharnhorst
ISBN: 9780826366542
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent American feminist...  Read More >>

Dreams Unreal: The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster

Dreams Unreal: The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster...

Author: Titus O'Brien ,  Scott B. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780826367358
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The music scene that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 was energetic, immensely creative, and loudly...  Read More >>

Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland

Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland

Author: W. B. Yeats
ISBN: 9781398834163
Format: Paperback
$25.85

One of Ireland's greatest writers, the Nobel-prize winner W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the myths and folklore of...  Read More >>

Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean

Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Shelene Gomes ,  Scott Timcke
ISBN: 9780820367026
Format: Paperback
$97.55

This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in...  Read More >>

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds

Author: Rich Paul ,  Jesse Washington
ISBN: 9780593448496
Format: Paperback
$52.80

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports...  Read More >>

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering...

Author: Zeke Faux
ISBN: 9780593443835
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and...  Read More >>

Gaza Faces History

Gaza Faces History

Author: Enzo Traverso ,  Willard Wood
ISBN: 9781635425543
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long...  Read More >>

Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France

Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and...

Author: Elise Franklin
ISBN: 9781496243485
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Elise Franklin considers how and why the slow process of decolonization reshaped the welfare state and the meaning...  Read More >>

Schriften 1934 - 1942: Herausgegeben von Peter Gostmann und Claudius Härpfer

Schriften 1934 - 1942: Herausgegeben von Peter Gostmann...

Author: Peter Gostmann ,  Albert Salomon
ISBN: 9783658462123
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Albert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologie und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift ""Die Gesellschaft"", war...  Read More >>

Translation and the Politics of Peace: Media, Negotiation, and Political Discourse in the Middle East

Translation and the Politics of Peace: Media, Negotiation,...

Author: Abdul Fattah Ammourah
ISBN: 9789358526998
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Translation and the Politics of Peace explores Middle Eastern politics from cultural, political, legal, and diplomatic...  Read More >>

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