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The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our SpeciesFacing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for...
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The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to the Journey to the West in KoreaThe Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling challenges many established truths about popular literary classics by presenting an analysis of sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West, a set which includes novels and poems, as well as films, comics, paintings, and dance performances...
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The Deep MurmurThe author of over 150 books in various genres, the French writer Renaud Camus is perhaps best known as the man who coined the "Great Replacement," his phrase to describe the sweeping demographic changes now transforming Europe and its diasporas throughout the world. In...
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The Darkest Lullaby: A Dark Nanny AnthologyThe Darkest Lullaby is an anthology full of suspense and horror. You'll not want to miss this heart-pounding collection if you loved Survive the Night by Riley Seger, works by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, or American Horror Story.Six authors come together to...
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The Best of Friedrich NietzscheThis collection contains the most famous novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ: A...
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Teaching a Stone to TalkHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.Author: Annie DillardPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 178Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.45dISBN: 9780062650528
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Self EmpunishmentSelf Empunishment contains 34 conversations with self-reliant, self-employed, and otherwise self-motivated musicians, technicians, and artists. The interviews, conducted by Brian Walsby, are revealing discussions about what has led these artists to where they are now, what choices have guided their journey, why they do...
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Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and PrayersThe first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism."Throughout Petrarch's work, there is an undercurrent of tension between the secular and the sacred. In this captivating new translation of the Psalms...
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Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis SingerAuthor: Isaac Bashevis SingerPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.90dISBN: 9780691259239About the AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of many novels, short story collections, memoirs, and children's books, including Gimpel the Fool and Other...
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Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust SurvivorsHistory is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. "Nothing Makes You Free" considers the heritage of the descendants of those who faced the horrific lie that adorned the gates of...
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may i come homeImmerse yourself in may i come home, the sophomore release from writer Christopher Tapp, which offers a raw exploration of mental health, addiction, and identity within the queer community.Through road trip-inspired prose, readers delve into themes of trauma, healing, and self-discovery across four distinct...
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Los Hermanos Karamazov: (Volumen I)Esta es la cuarta obra de Dostoyevski ubicada entre las cien mejores obras de la literatura mundial por el Instituto Nobel y el Club del Libro Noruego. Es, adem s, considerada por el autor como su obra maestra. Inicialmente, este trabajo iba a presentarse...
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Knausgård and the Autofictional NovelClaus Elholm Andersen is Paul and Renate Madsen Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Author: Claus Elholm AndersenPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/02/2024Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781438495651
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Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of AutobiographyEdward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner...
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IvanovAnton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov...
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early HollywoodUnlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn's (1864-1943) story really began after her marriage up the social ladder and into the English gentry class in 1892. Born in the Channel Islands, Elinor Sutherland, like most Victorian women, aspired only to a...
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Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man - Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American ReClass Struggle and the Adamic Imagination in Herman Melville: In Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in revolt sought a new universal in the working class but soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt found...
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Great Stories"Great Stories" consists of five parts. The first details my discovery of the cause of cancer, with implications for the cure. It also tells stories of great doctors I have come across. The second part tells non-medical tales of general interest. Part three is...
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Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First CenturyGhosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates the voices of our age as well as the poetic "ghosts" from the past. Acclaimed poet and award-winning teacher Christina Pugh is fascinated by how...
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Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Volume II: Books 21-44A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations. To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of the non-Roman world and its civilizations, from mythic beginnings...
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