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  • L'amore che resta

    Translated by Andrea De Benedetti ...
    Quando muore l'amore della vita resta solo l'eco dell'assenza. Ma all'amore della vita si deve qualcosa di più. Non la propria disperazione, ma il racconto della felicità che si è vissuta insieme.«Dovevo cercare di parlare di lei: non solo della sua perdita, ma di lei viva e palpitante, di ciò che abbiamo vissuto insieme, di tutto quello che mi ha dato e non solo di quello che mi ha tolto con la ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kampf der Identitäten

    Für eine Rückbesinnung auf linke Ideale

    Wenige Themen polarisieren die Öffentlichkeit derzeit so sehr wie die sogenannte Identitätspolitik und die damit verbundene »Cancel Culture«. Ist sie eine legitime Strategie, um bislang diskriminierten, übergangenen Gruppen und ihren Anliegen Geltung zu verschaffen? Oder verschärft sie am Ende die Spaltung der Gesellschaft?Jan Feddersen und Philipp Gessler bestreiten in ihrem Buch nicht die ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Istanti fatali

    Quando i numeri hanno spiegato il mondo

    Il libro di Bottazzini si legge come un lungo e piacevole racconto e in esso si comprende perché in matematica il progresso non scenda dal cielo, né proceda in maniera lineare; anzi, il più delle volte, necessiti di uno scatto di genio. Armando Torno, "Il Sole 24 Ore"Questo non è un libro di storia della matematica, ma un libro di racconti matematici. La sua trama e il suo ordito sono le storie ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dancing in Spite of Myself

    Essays on Popular Culture

    In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg—well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies—has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one of the leading theorists of popular culture and, specifically, of rock music. Grossberg offers an original and sophisticated view of the growing power of popular culture and its increasing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • ArtQuake

    The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series Culture Quake
    Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.The books begin with the rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • C'è speranza se questo accade al Vho

    by Mario Lodi ...
    Mario Lodi è stato uno dei protagonisti di quella straordinaria stagione di rinnovamento della scuola italiana che ha tentato di superare il vecchio modello autoritario per realizzare tra i banchi i valori della comunità democratica repubblicana. Questi diari, che ripercorrono la sua esperienza di maestro elementare tra il 1951 e il 1962, sono diventati una lettura fondamentale per tutti coloro ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Alice Guy Blaché

    Lost Visionary of the Cinema

    Alice Guy BlachT (1873-1968), the world's first woman filmmaker, was one of the key figures in the development of narrative film. From 1896 to 1920 she directed 400 films (including over 100 synchronized sound films), produced hundreds more, and was the first--and so far the only--woman to own and run her own studio plant (The Solax Studio in Fort Lee, NJ, 1910-1914). However, her role in film ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Latin American Popular Culture

    This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ain’t No Place for a Hero

    Borderlands

    Series Book 8 - Pop Classics
    A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game seriesThe critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Un siècle de barbares

    by Michel BRUN ...
    « Un siècle de barbares », roman à base historique et sociologique écrit par Michel Brun, auteur, réalisateur et scénariste. Deux familles traversent le vingtième siècle alternant les périodes de prospérité avec les années sombres des guerres : joies et de douleurs se succéderont avec la fuite inexorable du temps pour des personnages attachants et entiers. Tous vivront des histoires intens... ... Read more

    $13.17 USD

  • The Vinyl Frontier

    The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape

    'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The TelegraphHave you ever made someone you love a mix-tape?Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos.In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • True Crime

    Observations on Violence and Modernity

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Ukraine - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    Series series Culture Smart!
    Who are the Ukrainians? What are the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them? What are their values, and what challenges do they face today?Ukraine is a country of paradoxes. The people are proud of their roots, yet reticent about their recent past; the country participates in international space programs and produces the world's largest aircraft, but still lives in a world rich ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Here to Hogwarts

    Essays on Harry Potter Fandom and Fiction

    Edited by Christopher E. Bell ...
    The social relations, societal structures and existential conundrums in the world of Harry Potter novels reflect our own. When the authoritarianism of Hogwarts falls upon Harry, it is an echo of disciplinary practices in real-world high schools. The economic inequities of the wizarding world mirror those of modern societies. The art, literature and mass media of wizard society reveal our deep ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Monsters in America

    Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

    Monsters arrived in 2011—and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our past—a hideous obsession America cannot seem to escape.Poole’s central argument in Monsters in America is that monster tales intertwine with America’s troubled history of racism, politics, class struggle, and gender ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Susegad

    The Goan Art of Contentment

    by Clyde D'Souza ...
    Susegad' is a Konkani word that has no exact translation in English. Goans use it to convey the sense of contentment, fulfilment and relaxation that everyone associates with Goa and its culture. Clyde D'Souza, bestselling author and proud Goan, shows us the wonderful, unique elements that help Goans achieve susegad, and what you can do to add a pinch of this magic to your life, no matter where you ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Fabulous Sylvester

    The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

    by Joshua Gamson ...
    A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar SylvesterImagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Dictionary of Coronavirus Culture

    Edited by Alan Bradshaw, Joel Hietanen ...
    The Dictionary of Coronavirus Culture presents an A-Z of life in lockdown.Taking everyday terms that capture the lived experience of lockdown — like chocolate, streaming, ageing, health, clapping, social distancing, dystopia, and frontline workers — and discussing them with a range of writers, theorists, and academics, it provides unusually accessible and friendly analysis of our shared historic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ti aspetterò tutta la vita

    Pensieri d'amore

    by Nadia Toffa ...
    I pensieri d’amore che Nadia ha lasciatoin consegna alla madre.Un volume di intensa suggestione.Come la malattia, anche l’amoreva guardato in facciae vissuto per quello che può dare,qualsiasi fine potrà avere.“Abbiamo deciso di dar vita alla Fondazione Nadia Toffaper aiutare tutti quelli che possiamo. Sono ordini suoi,io ubbidisco molto volentieri e con tutto l’amore che posso.</strong... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Confessions of an Heiress

    A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose

    The New York Times Bestseller, Confessions of an Heiress reveals the fast, fun world of Paris Hilton, packed with enough photos, advice, and inside scoop to help anyone become an heiress and live a life of luxury.Paris Hilton has a lifestyle most girls dream about, but can she help it if she was born rich and beautiful? Now, with her trademark sense of humor, Paris looks back on her rise to fame ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sista Sister

    The much-anticipated second book by the Sunday Times bestseller

    Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a Black British mum, it was an important call-to-arms allowing mothers to take control and scrap the parenting rulebook to do it their own ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Astérix chez les Québécois

    Un Gaulois en Amérique - Documentaire

    Depuis sa création en 1959 et fort de ses 375 millions d'exemplaires vendus, Astérix n'a cessé de fasciner les lecteurs de tous âges. Accueillant chacun des albums de la série avec enthousiasme, les Québécois se sont identifiés à ce petit village gaulois qui poursuit, seul, sa lutte contre l'envahisseur romain. Superbement illustré et bourré d'informations inédites, ce livre documentaire explique ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Privileged Victims

    How America’s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People

    by Eddie Scarry ...
    America’s worst ideas and people are rising to the top, thanks to a rancid culture that has turned every part of our lives into a fight between so-called “privilege” and entitled brats claiming “victim” status. The country is under siege and America’s most ferocious enemy is already here: our privileged victims.On university campuses, in the news media, and in Hollywood, race, gender, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD