Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live,

Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Paperback)

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live,

Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo (Kemp Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but moreinterested in

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life (Schweitzer Petra M.)(Pevná vazba)

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,

Rome Stories(Pevná vazba)

Rome Stories explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless

The Women's Heritage Sourcebook: Bringing Homesteading to Everyday Life (Moore Ashley)(Pevná vazba)

The book of the movement that applies homegrown practices of self-sufficiency to modern life. 2020 BRONZE WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN COOKING Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-reliance and sustainability, characterized by home gardening and animal husbandry, food preservation, and even

Artist: The Circle Of Life (Haifisch Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Self-Knowledge (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of the importance of self-knowledge, providing practical exercises to aid self-discovery. In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: 'Know yourself'. Self-knowledge matters so much because

Aphrodite's Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica After Midlife (Fosse Stella)(Paperback)

The first book to empower older women writing about erotic experiences in life, the bedroom, and beyond With concrete tools for writing bawdy, fun, and empowering erotica, Aphrodite's Pen celebrates sexuality and creativity. The book includes approachable activities designed for novice and seasoned

The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life (Belsky Jay)(Pevná vazba)

A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in

Water of Life (Wilson Anne)(Pevná vazba)

This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commercial production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000. It is important

Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration (Watz Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity,

After We Fell (Todd Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Book Three of the After series-the internet sensation with millionsof readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting H. during her freshmanyear of college. But now that she has, her life will never be thesame

After We Collided (Todd Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Book Two of the After series-the internet sensation with millionsof readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting H. during her freshmanyear of college. But now that she has, her life will never be thesame

The Little Book of Astrology: An Accessible Introduction to Everything You Need to Enhance Your Life Using Astrology (McKenna Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The Little Book of Astrology is an accessible introduction to everything you need to enhance your life using astrology.On Twitter and Instagram you will have no doubt seen memes poking fun at everyone's signs - but do you know what they really mean? The Little Book of Astrology breaks down each of

Political Self-Deception (Galeotti Anna Elisabetta)(Pevná vazba)

Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. It has received relatively little attention but is well worth examining for its explanatory and normative

After Ever Happy (Todd Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Book Four of the After series-now newly revised and expanded, AnnaTodd's After fanfiction racked up 1 billion reads online andcaptivated readers across the globe. Experience the Internet's mosttalked-about book for yourself! Tessa and Hardin have defied allthe odds, but will their fairy tale ending

The Gothic Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (Lovecraft H. P.)(Pevná vazba)

This new collection of Lovecraft's stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and includes tales from the beginning to the very end of the author's

In Search of a Better Life: British and Irish Migration (Davis Graham)(Pevná vazba)

This book of new research will challenge the traditional narratives of Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. It will argue that most of the migrants were not forced by circumstances to leave their country but looked forward to a

Iris Murdoch (Rowe Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public

Love of My Life - The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury (Jones Lesley-Ann)(Pevná vazba)

The truth behind Freddie Mercury's complex romantic

Vinland Saga, Book 5 (Yukimura Makoto)(Pevná vazba)

A Life Without Purpose After the assassination of King Sweyn and the execution of Askeladd, Thorfinn lost the object of his vengeance, his sense of purpose, and his freedom. Now a broken young man, he labors far from the battlefield, clearing a forest for his slave master's farm alongside the

Book of Anna (Noble Stella Kuzyk)(Pevná vazba)

Stella Kuzyk Noble is the second youngest of the 16 children of Anna Zabiaka Kuzyk, the subject of this book. Stella was born in Fork River, Manitoba, Canada in 1929 and now resides in Waterdown, Ontario, Canada. She enjoys painting, playing cards, watching baseball and driving around town in her

Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room (Fortier Anne-Marie)(Pevná vazba)

This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of