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War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497705, Seagull Books, August 2011
240 pp., 19x15 cm, 15 halftones
Yasmine Beverly Rana's "The War Zone Is My Bed and Other Plays" follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabu...
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£19,00
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Winter's Journey Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch
ISBN: HB: 9781906497859, Seagull Books, August 2011
190 pp., 18x11 cm
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Braus...
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£19,00
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Book of Liszts Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt
ISBN: HB: 9781906497941, Seagull Books, June 2011
460 pp., 24.3x16.3 cm
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist – whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople –...
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£16,00
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Summer Resort
ISBN: HB: 9781906497880, Seagull Books, June 2011
128 pp., 21x14 cm
"Summer Resort", the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It is the hottest summer in memory and everyone in the village dreams of the sweet life in Udulo, a summer resort on a r...
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£14,50
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Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India
ISBN: PB + CD: 9781905422500, Seagull Books, May 2011
282 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 94 halftones
"Remembered Rhythms" explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, the essays ran...
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£22,00
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Shadow-Boxing Woman
ISBN: PB: 9780857425911, Seagull Books, May 2011
179 pp., 22.6x13.7 cm
In "The Shadow-Boxing Woman", a novel from German writer Inka Parei, a decaying apartment building in post-Wall Berlin is home to Hell, a young woman with a passion for martial arts. When Hell's neighbor disappears she sets out across the city in sea...
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£12,99
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Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love
ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones
In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...
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£26,50
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Victor Halfwit A Winter's Tale
ISBN: PB: 9780857425836, ISBN: HB: 9781906497644, Seagull Books, May 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 208 colour illus.
One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Foding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it's not a corps...
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£19,00
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Framing the Nation Languages of Modernity in India
ISBN: HB: 9781906497309, Seagull Books, May 2011
172 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
As recent films like "Slumdog Millionaire" attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come to mind. In the 1980s the idea of film theory arrived in the Indian scholarly community, stirring anew a fascination...
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£22,00
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Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones
Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...
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