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Moor
ISBN: PB: 9780857428332, ISBN: HB: 9780857423689, Seagull Books, March 2021
476 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collectin...
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£12,99
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£22,50
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Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City
ISBN: HB: 9780857427816, Seagull Books, November 2020
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 5 halftones
"Porcelain" is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grunbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at...
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Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
ISBN: HB: 9780857426512, Seagull Books, March 2019
228 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions...
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£14,99
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Fear, Reverence, Terror
ISBN: HB: 9780857424358, Seagull Books, August 2017
208 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 73 colour plates
We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding u...
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£25,00
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Emperor of Ice-Cream
ISBN: HB: 9780857422231, Seagull Books, December 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" tells the moving tale of an Italian family living in Scotland during the rise of Mussolini and his rule in Italy. The story is told from the point of view of Lucia, the family's daughter, who, at 83, reflects on her childho...
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£20,50
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Conversations Across Borders
ISBN: HB: 9781906497507, Seagull Books, September 2011
452 pp., 19.1x21.6 cm, 35 halftones
For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artis...
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£30,00
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Immaterial
ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...
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£15,00
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States of Violence An Essay on the End of War
ISBN: HB: 9781906497187, Seagull Books, September 2010
321 pp., 20.1x16.3 cm
According to political philosopher Frederic Gros, traditional notions of war and peace are currently being replaced by ideas of intervention and security. But while we may be able to speak of an end to war, this does not imply an end to violence. On...
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£22,00
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Ecologica
ISBN: PB: 9780857425751, Seagull Books, May 2010
186 pp., 21x13.4 cm
Writing in 2007, French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008: "The real economy is becoming an appendage of the speculative bubbles sustained by the finance indust...
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Guerrilla Movements in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones
Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...
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£75,00
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