A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice.
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From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writersOscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father';Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites Tibn's novelistic gifts for psychology and emotional nuance with his talents as a reader and critic, in incomparably elegant prose' (The New York Times Book Review).
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914.
This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders.
In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990.
A best-selling novelist andEdgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings hermastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heartto this collection ofthe must-readsinmysteries.
This book is a series of essays in the area of current culture and its defects, Christian religious belief, and other political and philosophical issues.
A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions.
UNÜBLICHE LEBENSWEGEFünf Lebensbilder vergessener Persönlichkeiten von 1750 bis heute: Eine junge Frau tritt ins Kloster ein und wagt so einen Schritt in die Freiheit.
Faith and the Historian collects essays from eight experienced historians discussing the impact of being "e;touched"e; by Catholicism on their vision of history.
These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years.
Through the lens of horrorfrom Halloween to Hereditaryqueer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Bletschacher, ehemaliger Chefdramaturg an der Wiener Staatsoper, ist als Regisseur, Maler und Autor zahlreicher Operntexte, Schauspiele, Erzählungen sowie musikwissenschaftlicher Studien tätig.
'A celebration of people who live a life less ordinary' - Country Living'A discovery of what makes us feel we belong' - Yours Magazine'From crofts to castles.
A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.
Powerful, personal observations on fear and courage—that touch on art, faith, academia, the internet, and more—from “a masterful essayist” (Roxane Gay, New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger).
Nachdem der Autor, Mediziner unter einem Pseudonym, vor zehn Jahren mit der Veröffentlichung seiner "Gründe, warum es uns nicht geben darf" die Thesen einer Anthropofugalen Ethik so schmerzhaft wie unleugbar veranschaulicht hat, behandelt er nun einen maßgebenden Teilaspekt der Verträglichkeitskrise zwischen Mensch und Leben: die zerstörerischen Einflüsse, welche vom Lärm der Moderne ausgehen.
With a new wave of adult ADHD diagnoses sweeping the world, many are beginning to discover what it is that sets them apart, but few have learnt what it takes to thrive.
Fascinating personal histories are revealed through the stories of cherished objects, in this anthology celebrating the meaningful mementos of our lives.
Wahlsiege extremistischer Parteien, Angriffe auf Politiker, offener Antisemitismus und Fremdenhass: Wir spüren immer deutlicher, Demokratie, Grundrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit sind keine Selbstverständlichkeit, sie müssen geschützt und verteidigt werden.
