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Seedtime III Notebooks, 1995-1998
ISBN: HB: 9780857428486, Seagull Books, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they co...
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£16,99
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Saffron "Modernity" in India Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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£25,00
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Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
ISBN: PB: 9781938769429, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
290 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm
After her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for he...
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Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780857425980, Seagull Books, September 2019
312 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophi...
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£19,99
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Behind the Book Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication
ISBN: PB: 9780226405803, ISBN: HB: 9780226405773, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing  cr...
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Difficult Death The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
ISBN: HB: 9780300218930, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of a generation that included Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, and August Strindberg. H...
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£25,00
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Our Perfect Wild Ray & Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of Far North
ISBN: PB: 9781602232785, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 colour plates, 2 maps
Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s – but they didn't simply teach the children of their Ia±upiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they r...
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£18,50
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Mayakovsky A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780226056975, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 161 halftones
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and – most important – poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of t...
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Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat
ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...
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Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
ISBN: PB: 9780300205787, ISBN: HB: 9780300137255, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic". The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separa...
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