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Stuff I've Been Reading(2015) HORNBY, NICKA journey in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations. This book takes into account the role that books actually play in our lives. It confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture.Vezava: Mehka22,22 € -
Sylvia Townsend Warner(2015) HARMAN, CLAIREThe poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistiVezava: Mehka22,22 € -
Inferno(2012) LOWE, KEITHIn the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
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Killer Instinct(2021) WEIDMAN, NADINEIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question—whether humans are innately aggressive or cooperative—eventually receded, but the oppositional nature–nurture binary created in the course of the debVezava: Trda58,17 € -
Memory Speaks - On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self(2021) SEDIVY, JULIEAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage lanVezava: Trda41,48 € -
Time for Things(2021) ROSENBERG, DR STEPHEN D.Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and use the proceeds to buy, buy, buy. Why? Stephen Rosenberg offers a novel theory, arguing that workers have leaVezava: Trda74,66 € -
Love’s Shadow(2021) BOVE, PAUL A.It is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, too much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Lit crit needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of RembrandtVezava: Trda53,38 € -
Origin of Others(2017) MORRISON, TONIWhat is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-NVezava: Trda30,70 € -
Time of Anarchy(2022) KRUER, MATTHEWIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to Carolina. Behind the upheaval was the Susquehannock Indians. Their shrewd responses to settler violence altered the future course of liVezava: Trda55,33 € -
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Pragmatism and Educational Research(2003) BIESTA, GERT J. J.,BURBULES, NICHOLAS C.This work provides an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. It focuses on the work of John Dewey, and examines the relationship between pragmatiVezava: Mehka53,40 € -
Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity(2000) BERNSTEIN, BASILThis volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close relation between its development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise.Vezava: Mehka87,46 € -
Bodyminds Reimagined(2018) SCHALK, SAMIBridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodymindsVezava: Mehka41,73 € -
Me and My House(2018) ZABOROWSKA, MAGDALENA J.Magdalena J. Zaborowska uses James Baldwin's house in the south of France as a lens through which to reconstruct his biography and to explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later worksVezava: Mehka62,70 € -
Ezili's Mirrors(2018) TINSLEY, OMISE'EKE NATASHAOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezili—a pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodou—in ways that offer a new model of queer black feminiVezava: Mehka44,94 € -
M Archive(2018) GUMBS, ALEXIS PAULINEEngaging with the work of M. Jacqui Alexander and Black feminist thought more generally, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive is a series of prose poems that speculatively documents the survival of Black people following a worldwide cataclysm while examiningVezava: Mehka35,36 € -
My Life as a Spy(2018) VERDERY, KATHERINEKatherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret poVezava: Mehka41,79 € -
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Ontological Terror(2018) WARREN, CALVIN L.Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, andVezava: Mehka36,97 €
