The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (Lepselter Susan)(Paperback)

The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (Lepselter Susan)(Paperback)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the 'uncanny' persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by

American Cipher - One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War (Farwell Matt)(Paperback / softback)

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in

Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (Cecire Natalia)(Paperback)

In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a historical phenomenon before it is understood as a set of formal phenomena. This seems counterintuitive because, at its most basic level, experimental

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting for (Rice Susan)(Paperback)

Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice--National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nations--reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor in this New York Times

The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hawkes Dean)(Paperback)

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond

Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (Lovecraft H. P.)(Paperback / softback)

Lets you find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands left undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken,

The Cosmic Pulse of Life: The Revolutionary Biological Power Behind UFOs (Constable Trevor James)(Paperback)

This book presents evidence that UFOs are mainly invisible and consist of both physical craft and living, biological creatures. The author convincingly shows that our atmosphere is the home of huge, invisible living organisms that are sometimes confused with spacecraft when they became visible. Mr

Penguin History of Britain - New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630 (Brigden Susan)(Paperback / softback)

No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old world of uniform

Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump (Lachman Gary)(Paperback)

Within the concentric circles of Trump's regime lies an unseen culture of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. In this unparalleled and deeply learned account, historian Gary Lachman goes where no other chronicler can. First the good news: Various forms of

Poetics - with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Pick Anat)(Paperback)

Simone Weil once wrote that 'the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence,' establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics could be

Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest (Kiser William S.)(Pevná vazba)

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage--in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a

In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture (Cummins Susan)(Paperback)

In Flux explains how jewellery contributed to the raucous, contradictory, and enthusiastic clamour for a new kind of society that made the 1960s and 1970s so

In the Shadows of the American Century - The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (McCoy Alfred W.)(Paperback / softback)

The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left

The Poetics of Natural History (Irmscher Christoph)(Paperback)

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale's museum to P. T. Barnum's American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry James as 'halls of

Evidence of Things Unseen (Wiggins Marianne)(Paperback)

This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians (Lehmann Herman)(Paperback)

Here is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s. Adopted by a war chief, he was trained to be a warrior and waged

Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Cutterham Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles

A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Brown Bill)(Paperback)

In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession

The Birth-Mark: Essays (Howe Susan)(Paperback)

In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne

The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Vidler Anthony)(Paperback)

Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally 'unhomely' modern condition.The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart

Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (Frampton Kenneth)(Paperback)

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Power Samantha)(Paperback)

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power―a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy―asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow 'never again' repeatedly fail

By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Green Michael)(Paperback)

Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and