The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Gordon Avery F.)(Paperback)

The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Gordon Avery F.)(Paperback)

The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, has long welcomed the participants in the various Euro-American social struggles against slavery, racial capitalism, imperialism, and authoritarian forms of order. The Archive is not a library or a research collection in the conventional

Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Gordon Avery F.)(Paperback)

'Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ' --George Lipsitz'The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.' --American Studies International'Ghostly

Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Dragostinova Theodora K.)(Paperback)

In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small socialist state--Bulgaria--and its cultural engagements with the Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During this anxious decade, Bulgaria's communist leadership invested

The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive (Kostalevsky Marina)(Pevná vazba)

A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of

The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives (Pintel-Ginsberg Idit)(Paperback)

The Angel and the Cholent: Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives by Idit Pintel-Ginsberg, translated into English for the first time from Hebrew, analyzes how food and foodways are the major agents generating the plots of several significant folktales. The tales were chosen from the

Letters from Egypt: An Englishwoman on the Nile, 1862-69 (Duff Gordon Lucy)(Paperback)

In 1862, Lucie Duff Gordon left her husband and three children in England and settled in Egypt, where she remained for the rest of her short life. Seeking respite from her tuberculosis in the dry air, she moved into a ramshackle house above a temple in Luxor, and soon became an indispensable member

Letters and Journals Vol. II (Byron George Gordon 1788-)(Paperback)

Byron's letters form a vital insight into the man and the writer. This edition contains, in addition to the journals and other prose (including translations), the fullest selection of letters so far available in any popular edition of his

Essential Writings of Friedrich Engels: Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; And Others (Engels Friedrich)(Paperback)

A selection of writings from Friedrich Engels. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific; The Principles of Communism; The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man; Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of Classical German Philosophy; and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the

Letters From The Earth (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The Martin Archives: A Scrapbook of Treasures from the World's Foremost Acoustic Guitar Maker (Washburn Jim)(Pevná vazba)

(Book). The Martin Archives is a unique inside look into C.F. Martin & Co.'s reign as America's oldest and most revered guitarmaker viewed through a selection of images, correspondence, documents, and reproduced artifacts chosen from some 700,000 items the company has amassed over nearly two

War With The Newts (Capek Karel)(Paperback / softback)

One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge

Walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive (Burton Gail)(Paperback / softback)

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Harvey David)(Paperback)

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do

Corporate Social Responsibility (Blowfield Michael)(Paperback)

In its journey from the margins to the mainstream, corporate social responsibility has become a significant part of the business agenda. Whilst society has always held expectations of business that go beyond maximising profits, the backdrop against which businesses now operate - characterised by

Masterminds (Korman Gordon)(Paperback)

The first book in the action-packed trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson. Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and

The Harley-Davidson Story: Tales from the Archives (Frank Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

The Harley-Davidson Story: Tales from the Archives is a fascinating, visually driven overview of the motor company's rich story, created in cooperation with the Harley-Davidson Museum. The story of Harley-Davidson is a classic American tale of spirit, invention, and the right idea at the right

From the Mountaintop - An archive history of Batley RLFC (Roe John)(Paperback / softback)

The rich archive history of Batley Cricket, Athletic and Football Club - from its birth in 1880 through joining the breakaway Northern Union, which subsequently became rugby league, to the current Bulldogs. All of which makes the 'Gallant Youths' one of the oldest clubs in the world, playing on a

Ban This Filth! - Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive (Thompson Ben (Music Critic))(Paperback / softback)

Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country's intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined? The author's selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary

Love, Henri - Letters on the Spiritual Life (Nouwen Henri J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Previously unpublished letters from the author of The Wounded Healer and The Return of the Prodigal

Outsider Art - From the Margins to the Marketplace (MacLagan David)(Paperback / softback)

The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught

Dear Undercover Economist - The very best letters from the Dear Economist column (Harford Tim)(Paperback / softback)

* The very best letters from Tim Harford's celebrated Financial Times 'Dear Econonmist' column, collected herewith NEW letters for the paperback

Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th-13th Centuries (Barber Malcolm)(Paperback)

This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in

Screwtape Letters - Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback / softback)

A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the