Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas.
The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day.
Taking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology, and liturgical studies.
In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s.
Three top authors writing three erotic fairytalesBear Skin: Hazel is whisked away from her tedious job and humdrum life by the mysterious Arailt, to be his lover 'for a year and a day, without reason and without question.
Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA.
'With smoking hot chemistry, next to no angst, and a friend group that is literally squad goals, Rochon has written another winner' - The Dating Playbook is one of Vulture's Best Romances of 2021!
In this outstanding psychological thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review) by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, a famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his own reality and the frightening plot lines hes created for the page.
Now a major film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, a novel "e;like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed"e; (Booklist, starred review).
Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms "e;the great unwashed"e; and "e;the pen is mightier than the sword"e;--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H.
Par Samuel RichardsonTraduction d'Antoine-François Prévost d'ExilesIntroduction et notes de Stéphane LojkineTextes choisis et établis par Benoît TaneUne jeune fille riche, séduisante et vertueuse est sommée d’épouser un ignoble fermier enrichi, pour d’obscures raisons d’héritage.
April 1942, der Deutsch-Sowjetische Krieg tobt seit einem Jahr, doch im Hause der Familie Schaposchnikow mag man nicht glauben, dass die deutschen Truppen bis nach Stalingrad vorrücken könnten.
From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widows War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Marthas Vineyard at the end of the nineteenth century.
A STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER SET IN OCCUPIED GREECE FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLACKOUT AND DEAD OF NIGHTThe fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful novel.
Sign of Redemption tells the story of a Richie Harrison, an innocent CPA who lands behind bars in a Texas prison--the unwitting ';wheelman' in an unexpected armed robbery.
Dovlatov and Surroundingsis a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov.
This collection considers music within the spheres of production and consumption and pulls together an interdisciplinary collection of music studies from around the world, ranging from an ethnomusicological analysis of the condition of Tibetan music and its role within the Chinese state, the changing reception of anti-apartheid music by white musicians in South Africa according to new configurations of society and its memory of recent history, a lyrical exploration of jazz as a signifier of crime and other nefarious activities within film history, an analysis of how music charts and maps the social network and gender roles in Jamaica and a landmark commentary on how music is framed by David Hemsondalgh.
Beginnings is based on the lives of Greg and Charly that propels the reader on an emotional roller coaster, as events unfold in their lives, including the more absurd and humorous aspects of life.
