Memory in the Wild (Wagoner Brady)(Paperback)

Memory in the Wild (Wagoner Brady)(Paperback)

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between

Memory in the Wild (hc) (Wagoner Brady)(Pevná vazba)

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between

The Perfect Date, 37 (Stine R. L.)(Paperback)

Perfect...perfectly evil. Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend -- killed in a gruesome sledding accident last year -- is beginning to fade. Now he's met Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams. And he's never been happier. Until Brady starts to see a strange figure

Where The Memory Was (Osman Hibaq)(Paperback / softback)

In her first full collection, Hibaq Osman presents her poems in flashes of memory. Part of the #TwentyIn2020 collection for Black British writing, Where The Memory Was represents the voice and experience of young Black Britain today through one of their own literary

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Huyssen Andreas)(Paperback)

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New

W or The Memory of Childhood (Perec Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state

In the Wild Light (Zentner Jeff)(Paperback / softback)

The Evolutionary Road to Human Memory (Murray Elisabeth A.)(Paperback)

We tend to think about memory in terms of the human experience, neglecting the fact that we can trace a direct line of descent from the earliest vertebrates to modern humans. But the evolutionary history that we share with other vertebrates has left a mark on modern memory, complemented by unique

Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Rothberg Michael)(Paperback)

Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonization. On the

Dragonbone Chair - Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 1 (Williams Tad)(Paperback / softback)

The beloved first novel in Tad Williams' classic fantasy series MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN, set in the fantasy world of Osten

The Book of Memory (Carruthers Mary)(Paperback)

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and

Everliving Memory of John Valentine (Sayers Ross)(Paperback / softback)

It's Hannah Greenshields's first day at Memory Lane, a memory clinic in the centre of Edinburgh. John Valentine, a Memory Lane client, is reliving his wedding day over and over again, hoping to change one key event he can't forget. When Hannah and John's paths meet, they must work together to get

Memory: Remembering and Forgetting (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

What is the meaning of memory in the information age? When all knowledge is seemingly digitized and available for reference at any time, do we really need human memory? One consequence of the proliferation of the digital age is the deterioration of our capacity to remember--a symptom that is

Near to the Wild Heart (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called 'Hurricane Clarice' a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: 'He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild

Girls in the Wild Fig Tree (Leng'ete Nice)(Paperback)

Where Memory Leads: My Life (Friedlnder Saul)(Paperback)

In this sequel to the classic work of Holocaust literature When Memory Comes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian returns to memoir to recount this tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents. Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedl nder returns with Where Memory

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Halberstam Jack)(Paperback)

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of

The Memory of Light (Stork Francisco X.)(Paperback)

Now in paperback: This beautiful novel from the author of Marcelo in the Real World about life after a suicide attempt is perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Thirteen Reasons Why.When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide

The Memory Palace: A Memoir (Bartok Mira)(Paperback)

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and family's capacity

Memory of Water/5 Knds Silence (Various)(Paperback)

In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships. ''Combines a flair for

The Last Days Of Oscar Wilde (Vanderslice John)(Paperback)

Meet Oscar Wilde. His life is ending.The year is 1898. Wilde's reputation is in ruins. After the scandal, after the trial, and after the incarceration at Reading Gaol, Wilde lives in precarious exile in Paris. His friends urge him to start another great work, a new play or poem. But Wilde's

Landscape and Memory (Schama Simon)(Paperback)

A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth

Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle (Wild Cards Trust)(Paperback)

George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards classic adventure, in trade paperback for the first time: a dangerous superpowered gang rises to power and threatens the citizens of New York CityBloat, the boy-governor of the Rox, wanted to make Ellis island a safe haven for Jokers, and made a choice to recruit