Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - And Other Essays (Talese Gay)(Paperback / softback)

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - And Other Essays (Talese Gay)(Paperback / softback)

A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling to Ireland with hellraiser Peter O'Toole; and, a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a

Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Talese Gay)(Pevná vazba)

Gay Talese’s crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author’s archives and photographs from Phil Stern—the only photographer granted access to Sinatra

Straight Mind - And Other Essays (Wittig Monique)(Paperback / softback)

Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

British Queer Cinema(Paperback / softback)

Drawing together a range of essays, this is the history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema. From the early years of 'Pre-Gay, through the post-war gay liberation, and the 'post-AIDS' queer generations, it provides an historical perspective on queer cinema. It is for students

How Not to be a Doctor - And Other Essays (Launer John)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, in short stories and reflections that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the

I Might Regret This - Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff (Jacobson Abbi)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir in essays by Abbi Jacobson, the co-creator and co-star of hit comedy series Broad

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (Althusser Louis)(Paperback)

No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party

Her Body And Other Parties (Machado Carmen Maria)(Paperback / softback)

'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable.' - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in

Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Bakhtin M. M.)(Paperback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in

Not That Bad - Dispatches from Rape Culture (Gay Roxane)(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of first-person essays which tackle rape, assault and harassment head-on, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Roxane

Other Fires (Gay Lenore H.)(Paperback)

The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays (Gioia Dana)(Paperback)

Over the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dimensions of art and the decisive role faith has played in the lives of artists. This new volume

Bad Feminist (Gay Roxane)(Paperback / softback)

'I'm human, full of contradictions, and a feminist.' Bad Feminist is collection of frank, funny, whip-smart and spot-on essays from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay

Why I am Not a Painter and Other Poems (O'Hara Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Frank O'Hara composed poems 'any time, any place', collaborating with artists, dancers, musicians and poets. The city was a place of endless possibility, and he captured the pace and rhythms, the quandaries and exhilarations of city life. This selection of his work is edited by Mark

Cold Skin (Sanchez Pinol Albert)(Paperback / softback)

This creepy, paranoid and thrilling novel has become an international bestseller and cult

Decay of Lying: And Other Essays (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only art worth loving is that built on complete

Love In The Afternoon and Other Delights (Vincenzi Penny)(Paperback / softback)

A fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny

Tyranny Lessons: International Prose, Poetry, Essays, and Performance (Stewart Frank)(Paperback)

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual

What Is Man?: And Other Essays (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

These acerbic, poignant, and thought-provoking essays concern mankind, its relationship with God, and how the mind works. Twain himself considered them dark and cynical, delaying their publication for many years before finally releasing them as an anonymous, limited-edition collection. The title

Inquiry and Essays (Reid Thomas)(Paperback / softback)