Citizen Poet
New and Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781800171701,
Carcanet,
September 2024
440 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
440 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Costa Poetry Award 2020
Irish PEN Award for Literature 2019
Bob Hughes Lifetime Award 2017
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 1994
Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry 1994
At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems an...
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25.00 GBP
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Mixed
Can two sisters overlook their differences?
"Mixed" is a hilarious yet moving story of family and faith, best served hot (or cold) with a dollop of sour cream.
Sisters Ruth and Miriam Green spent most of their childhood loving each other and hating...
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9.99 GBP
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Night Climbing
When Sylvia's son, Cyril, vanishes during a perilous school trek in the German mountains, her world crumbles. A pre-trip postcard from Cyril hints that his teacher – now lauded for his rescue efforts – knew more about the stormy conditions than he ha...
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Looking at Fashion
A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
ISBN: PB: 9781606068991,
Getty Publications,
August 2024
144 pp., 23,2x15,8 cm, 94 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
144 pp., 23,2x15,8 cm, 94 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
What is an epaulette? What is a keffiyeh? These clothing items – and hundreds more – are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide.
Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the...
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Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
ISBN: PB: 9781606068885,
Getty Publications,
August 2024
224 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 121 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.
224 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 121 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.
Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture.
This book provides a new way of thinking a...
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50.00 GBP
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Secrets We Keep
Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire
ISBN: PB: 9781606069080,
Getty Publications,
August 2024
112 pp., 21,0x15,2 cm, 28 colour illus.
112 pp., 21,0x15,2 cm, 28 colour illus.
An intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth.
Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of...
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Battleground Ukraine
From Independence to the War with Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300269468,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion.
In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...
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Bigger
A Literary Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300269321,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism.
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...
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Caliphate or Supreme Imamate
ISBN: HB: 9780300187298,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought.
Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a vil...
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Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians
The Off-Modern in American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300267143,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The best essays from America's premier cultural historian.
Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...
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