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The Poethical Wager
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve... more...
A Mighty Heart
Scribner 2007; US$ 18.99For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan...And then came the broadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told here - in astonishing detail, and with courage and insight -... more...
Little Magazines
University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 36.00Little Magazines - American Writers 32 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Transcultural Experiments
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 115.00Contemporary processes of globalization have had a profound impact on cultural production and dissemination both intra- and cross-culturally. The dissemination of cultures on a global scale has led to multiple and complex effects, among them the formation of radical new modes of cultural interaction, transcultural flows, and hybridized knowledges,... more...
Around the Bloc
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement?commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the ?Evil Empire.? In Around the Bloc , Griest relates her experiences as... more...
Solid Objects
Princeton University Press 1998; US$ 40.00In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects,... more...
A Good Life
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 16.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion
Short Books 2010; US$ 21.86?If the trade of the gossip columnist is trivial, then all life is trivial? ? Nigel Dempster No one is more responsible for Britain?s current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor of the Daily Mail?s Diary, he was the man perfectly placed and... more...
Doing News ¿ Die Fabrikation von Fernsehnachrichten
Springer Fachmedien 2007; US$ 69.99Fear and Loathing in America
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 18.00Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and... more...









