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Ben Hecht Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9780300251814, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm
He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter". Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today". Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts – including "Scarfac...
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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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Bad Words Selected Short Prose
ISBN: HB: 9780857424761, Seagull Books, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I now no longer use the better words" Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga esca...
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Baghdad, Adieu Selected Poems of Memory and Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780857425447, Seagull Books, October 2018
264 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Ar...
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Blue Jewellery
ISBN: HB: 9780857425379, Seagull Books, October 2018
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"'Blue jewellery" is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn like a bracelet around the wrists, on ribs, legs, arms. Blue jewellery is another name for the marks left on women's bodies, inflicted by the men around them....
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Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...
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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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Birth of Christian History Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts
ISBN: HB: 9780300165098, Yale University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Ch...
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Big Guns Artillery on the Battlefield
ISBN: PB: 9781612004884, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Ever since the first appearance of large-calibre guns in the Middle Ages, gunpowder artillery has had an enormous impact on military strategy and warfare. Cannons were initially developed to tackle fortifications, but then technology enabled the deve...
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Blumenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...
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