Thin Places: Essays from in Between (Kisner Jordan)(Paperback)

Thin Places: Essays from in Between (Kisner Jordan)(Paperback)

A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning When Jordan Kisner

The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland (Stewart Rory)(Paperback)

From a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the Marches--the borderland between England and Scotland--and the political turmoil and vivid lives that created it.In The Places in Between, Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in

From Elephants to Einstein . . .: Answers to Questions (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

The remarkable discussions in this volume took place between Rudolf Steiner and workers at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The varied subjects were chosen by his audience at Steiner's suggestion. He took their questions, to which he generally gave immediate answers. The astonishing nature

Orhan Pamuk -- Critical Essays on a Novelist between Worlds - A Collection of Essays on Orhan Pamuk(Paperback / softback)

100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go (DeSanctis Marcia)(Paperback)

Told in a series of stylish, original essays, 'New York Times' travel bestseller '100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go' is for the serious Francophile, the woman dreaming of a trip to Paris, and those who love crisp stories well told. Like all great travel writing, this volume goes beyond the

Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective (Dumont Louis)(Paperback)

Louis Dumont's Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective. The result of twenty years of scholarship and inquiry, the interrelated essays gathered here not only trace the genesis and growth of individualism as

Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (Jordan Ken)(Paperback)

Tracing the fertile series of collaborations between arts and sciences throughout the twentieth century, Randall Packer and Ken Jordan present the often overlooked history behind multimedia--the interfaces, links, and interactivity we all take for granted today. 'Many of the papers that had

From Adam to Christ (Hooker Morna D.)(Paperback)

The publication of these essays in one volume--essays published separately and in diverse contexts over a period of thirty years--is something of an event. Professor Hooker is one the foremost New Testament scholars currently writing, and Paul is one of her major interests. This collection includes

All the Places in Between (Douglas John Cei)(Paperback)

A beautiful, wordless graphic novel about feeling lost . . . and trying to get back to the place where you think you should be. What happens when you're trapped in the darkness, in emotional pain and turmoil? How can you make your way through that anguish and find joy again? In wordless

Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock (Rawle Steven)(Paperback)

This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney

Cecil and Jordan in New York (Bell Gabrielle)(Paperback)

Gabrielle Bell's best known stories that solidified her place among today's top

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

The Places in Between (Stewart Rory)(Paperback)

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving

We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security (Schneier Bruce)(Paperback)

A collection of popular essays from security guru Bruce Schneier In his latest collection of essays, security expert Bruce Schneier tackles a range of cybersecurity, privacy, and real-world security issues ripped from the headlines. Essays cover the ever-expanding role of technology in national

This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience (Watts Alan)(Paperback)

Six revolutionary essays from 'the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise' (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life--and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on 'cosmic

Thin Line Between Everything and Nothing (Storm Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Translating Emotion: Studies in Transformation and Renewal Between Languages (Harden Theo)(Paperback)

This collection of essays can be situated in a development that has been underway in translation studies since the early 1990s, namely the increasing focus on translators themselves: translators as embodied agents, not as instruments or conduits. The volume deals with different kinds of emotion and

Places In Between (Stewart Rory)(Paperback / softback)

The international bestseller: A brilliant account of Rory Stewart's walk through war-ravaged Afghanistan. Now with illustrations and an

New Museology (Vergo Peter)(Paperback)

With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. 'A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking' The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989) 'The essays are all

American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Glck Louise)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters

Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton (Hoppit Julian)(Paperback)

Money and Markets celebrates Martin Daunton's distinguished career by bringing together essays from leading economic, financial, social and cultural historians, many being colleagues and former students. Throughout his career, Daunton has focused on the relationship between structure and agency,

Fashion in Film (Munich Adrienne)(Paperback)

The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoinette looks, Fashion in Film uncovers the way in which the alliance of these two powerhouse industries use myriad cultural influences--shaping

Selected Literary Essays (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism, ' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Boyarin Daniel)(Paperback)

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith