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Into the Story
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 16.00INTO THE STORY is the first collection of the work of David Maraniss, one of the most honored and versatile writers of his generation. The thirty-two stories here cover a rich array of topics, ranging from seminal moments in modern history to intimate personal reflections, each piece illuminated by the author?s deep reporting and singular sensibility. more...
Theatre and Religion on Krishna's Stage
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Theatre and Religion on Krishna's Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and conversations with performers, audience, and local scholars, Mason argues that râs lila ... more...
Modernism and Poetic Inspiration
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00The sites of inspiration documented in this book range from nineteenth century linguistic theory to postmodern strategies of conceptual writing, encompassing well known instances of modernist poetics (Mallarmé, Pound, Olson) alongside obscure but revealing figures like Otto Nebel and Henri-Martin Barzun. more...
Transversal Subjects
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 30.00Transversal Subjects proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity, and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have significantly influenced the development of present-day understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis, aesthetics, education, and human rights. more...
Life is Like a Sailboat
Vanguard Press 2010; US$ 12.95A new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Dogs Have More Fun and Marley and Me more...
Losing Our Religion
Threshold Editions 2010; US$ 15.00"The press has become a tool of oppression?politicized, self?aware, self?motivated, and power?hungry. . . . In short, these people can no longer be trusted." ?From S. E. Cupp?s Losing Our Religion It?s time to wake up and smell the bias. The go-to commentator for such programs as Fox News?s Hannity and CNN?s Larry King Live and Reliable... more...
The Man Time Forgot
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started Time , the first newsmagazine, at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. By age thirty, they were both millionaires, having laid the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership was explosive and their competition ferocious,... more...
Carme
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 77.00Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen... more...
The Zombie Handbook
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 16.95? The Zombie Handbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to make it home alive.? ?Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero A few years ago, building an acid pit and stocking skull-splitting machetes would have been seen as an overreaction to the zombie threat. No longer! To survive the coming zombie apocalypse?and it is coming?you need to know... more...
I Am What I Am
Michael O'Mara 2010; US$ 9.99Intimately exploring aspects of John?s current life, this personal memoir is full of exclusive anecdotes from recent and ongoing projects, all told with John?s trademark charm and humor. Full of juicy tidbits from behind the scenes of Doctor Who and Torchwood , this memoir also offers heartwarming family anecdotes and personal revelations, including... more...









