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Golden Horde Revolutionary Italy, 1960-1977
ISBN: HB: 9780857427465, Seagull Books, May 2021
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and '70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, the volume widens our understanding of the full complexity and richnes...
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£35,00
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Glance of the Medusa The Physiognomy of Mysticism
ISBN: HB: 9780857426086, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
In "The Glance of the Medusa", Laszo F. Foldenyi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy. Embracing the best traditions of essay writing, this volume invites readers on a s...
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£21,99
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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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£20,00
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Great Fall
ISBN: PB: 9780857428417, ISBN: HB: 9780857425348, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind". The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropol...
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£9,99
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£18,99
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Gramsci's Fall
ISBN: HB: 9780857426918, Seagull Books, February 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is it possible to fight for social justice if you've never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you're in love? Forty-six-year-old Anton Stover's marriage is broken. His affairs are a thing of the past, and his career at the univer...
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£20,00
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Goethe Dies
ISBN: PB: 9780857427052, ISBN: HB: 9780857423276, Seagull Books, September 2019
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goeth...
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£7,99
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£16,00
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God Behind the Window
ISBN: HB: 9780857426055, Seagull Books, March 2019
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The thirteen stories of Michael Kruger's "The God behind the Window" capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic old men full of the mixture of wisdom and melancholy that so often accompanies old age. In Kruger's sto...
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£18,99
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Gathering the Ashes
ISBN: HB: 9780857423924, Seagull Books, November 2016
396 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 halftones
Most discussions of India's First War of Independence from British colonial rule in 1857 have centered on the role played by the Mughal emperor, the nawab of Awadh, and other sundry members of mostly urban nobility. What has remained missing from thi...
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£22,50
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Goat Days
ISBN: HB: 9780857423955, Seagull Books, November 2016
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to send some back home. One day, he finally achieves this dream, only to be propelled by a series of incidents – grim and absurd...
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£18,50
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Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...
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£26,50
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