Summer Solstice: An Essay (Maclaughlin Nina)(Paperback)

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (Maclaughlin Nina)(Paperback)

In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. After thousands of years of other people's tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I'll tell it myself. Seductresses and

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke John)(Paperback)

John Locke's classic work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding laid the foundation of British empiricism and remains of enduring interest today. Rejecting doctrines of innate principles and ideas, Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract and complex, are grounded in human

Clade (Bradley James)(Paperback)

On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have predicted

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke John)(Paperback)

This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a new

Connell Guide To How To Write An Essay (Patrick Jonny)(Paperback / softback)

Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke John)(Paperback / softback)

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it

Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (Rose Jacqueline)(Paperback)

A daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothers A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and

Midsummer: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Litha (Blake Deborah)(Paperback)

Midsummer--also known as the Summer Solstice or Litha--is a time to rejoice in abundance and light. This guide to the history and modern celebration of Midsummer shows you how to celebrate and work with the energy of the longest day of the year. Rituals Recipes Lore Spells Divination Crafts

Writing Politics: An Anthology (Bromwich David)(Paperback)

An original anthology exploring the tradition of the political essay--including works by Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Mary McCarthy--edited by the brilliant David Bromwich. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally

Capital of Pain (Caws Mary Ann)(Paperback)

A text of surrealism. It includes an essay on Eluard's

9 Lessons In Brexit (Rogers Ivan)(Paperback / softback)

In this short, elegant essay, Ivan Rogers, the UK's former ambassador to the EU, draws up nine lessons for Brexit that we, as a soon-to-be `third country', need to learn from the last few years, if the next few years - indeed the next decade - are not to be even more

An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (Gyekye Kwame)(Paperback)

Defining the main principles of a distinct African philosophy, this work rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a

The Solstice Countdown: A SPI Files Novel (Shearin Lisa)(Paperback)

As an agent of Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI), I know that evil doesn't take a vacation, but this time it made an exception and followed me on mine.I'm Makenna Fraser, seer for SPI, and I'm taking my boyfriend, goblin dark mage Rake Danescu, home for the holidays to meet my family

Love And Garbage (Klima Ivan)(Paperback / softback)

The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and

Winter Solstice (Ajai-Ajagbe Daley Elliott)(Paperback)

Joshua, an Elandili* forced to flee the Empire Noel with his uncle as a boy, has returned and stands now at the precipice of his childhood dream. He's battled fear, doubt, rage and the tortured memories fuelling them, to ensure he's pitch perfect when meeting his Holiness; Christopher Nicholas

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (Bolin Alice)(Paperback)

'Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book.' -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties'Bracing and blazingly smart, Alice Bolin's Dead Girls could hardly be more needed or more

Ecotopia: (40th Anniversary Ed.) (Callenbach Ernest)(Paperback)

This fortieth-anniversary edition includes Ernest Callenbach's final essay, 'An Epistle to the Ecotopians,' and a new foreword by Callenbach's close friend and publisher, Malcolm

Discourse on Colonialism (Csaire Aim)(Paperback)

'Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which he] played a prominent role.' --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the

The Hidden Wound (Berry Wendell)(Paperback)

An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country's most humane literary voices. Acclaimed as 'one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time' (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay about racism

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays (Chee Alexander)(Paperback)

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist--and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as 'masterful' by Roxane Gay, 'incendiary' by the New York Times, and

The Summer I Turned Pretty (Han Jenny)(Paperback)

Now a streaming series in Summer 2022! Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (now a major motion picture!), Jenny Han. Some summers are just destined to be pretty

ISE The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics (Rosenstand Nina)(Paperback / softback)

The Last and the First (Berberova Nina)(Paperback)

The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova's debut novel: an intense story the struggle over the future of migr life On a crisp September morning, trouble comes to the Gorbatovs' farm. Having fled the ruins of the Russian Revolution, they have endured crushing

Caporalato: An Authentic Agromafia (Fanizza Fiammetta)(Paperback)

The essay investigates the effects produced by criminal networks involved in the production and harvest of agricultural products. Focused on the analysis of caporalato, it explores the enslavement of immigrant agricultural labourers and territorial segregation practices. Moreover, it deals with the