Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3, 3 (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3, 3 (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA

Faces and Masks: Memory of Fire, Volume 2, 2 (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as

The Book of Embraces (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a

Children of the Days - A Calendar of Human History (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback / softback)

From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library, this title takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but

Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

In a series of mock lesson plans and a 'program of study' Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in 'The Impunity of Power' to a seminar on 'The Sacred Car'--with tips along the way on 'How to Resist Useless

Hunter of Stories (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback / softback)

The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American

League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3: Century - Century (Moore Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Akira, Volume 3 (Otomo Katsuhiro)(Paperback)

IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira--the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an unstable youth

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 3) (Tsong-Kha-Pa)(Paperback)

The third volume of the 15th-century spiritual classic that condenses Buddhist teachings into one easy-to-follow meditation manual The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Tib. Lam rim chen mo) is one of the brightest jewels in the world's treasury of sacred literature. The

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Galeano Eduardo)(Paperback)

Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and

Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, volume 3 (Delbruck Hans)(Paperback)

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted in fief. These pages are crowded with

Game of Thrones (Martin George R. R.)(Paperback)

The first volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark

Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 (Bussel Rachel Kramer)(Paperback)

Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 delivers the kind of sexy stories you want most: daring, bold, and surprising tales of women who pursue their boundless passions anywhere and everywhere. Edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, winner of multiple Independent Publishing Book Awards, these

Master of the Senate - The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) (Caro Robert A)(Paperback / softback)

Fire Punch, Vol. 3, 3 (Fujimoto Tatsuki)(Paperback)

In a frozen dystopia where inhabitants eat flesh to survive, can the destructive powers of fire bring salvation? In the not-too-distant past, the Ice Witch blankets the world in snow, starvation, and madness, leading the inhabitants to seek their salvation in fire. With that, an unusual destiny

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (Eliade Mircea)(Paperback)

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through

Moonshine, Volume 1 (Azzarello Brian)(Paperback)

THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE NEW ON-GOING SERIESFrom writer, BRIAN AZZARELLO and artist, EDUARDO RISSO -- the Eisner award-winning creative team behind the crime classic, 100 Bullets -- comes a brutal new series! Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, MOONSHINE #1 tells the

Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda: Volume 3 (Shri Atmananda)(Paperback)

Volume 3 of a 3 volume collection of spiritual discourses by Shri Atmananda (Krishna Menon, 1883-1959), a living representative of the tradition of Advaita Vedanta and one of the great sages of the modern world. The discourses were recorded during the period of 1950 to 1959 by a trusted disciple

Zodiac Starforce Volume 2: Cries of the Fire Prince (Panetta Kevin)(Paperback)

Capital: Volume 3: A Critique of Political Economy (Marx Karl)(Paperback)

The third volume of a political treatise that changed the world Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Capital strives to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove

Clash of Kings (Martin George R. R.)(Paperback)

The second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos

Swann's Way (Proust Marcel)(Paperback)

The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its

The Work of Fire (Blanchot Maurice)(Paperback)

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. Blanchot early developed a distinctive,