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Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism
Aubrey L Glazer · Academic Studies Press
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover
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Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most... |
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abby Norman · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issuesIn the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly... |
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Veterans: Faces of World War II
Sasha Maslov · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
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Ichiro Sudai trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans - "people who fought... |
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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Sarah McColl · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother's image.Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage... |
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Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
James Stourton · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's... |
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Writing an Icon: Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin
Anita Jarczok · Swallow Press
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
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Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators,... |
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Licensed to Lie
Sidney Powell · Sidney Powell
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justice's destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch executives who did one business transaction with Enron, Alaska Senator Ted Steven's,... |
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Thus I Lived with Words: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer's Craft
Annette Federico · University Of Iowa Press
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre - fiction, poetry,... |
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Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González
Abdul Alkalimat · Library Juice Press
Format: Print book
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This book introduces North Americans and other general readers to 1) the role of Afro-Cubans in Cuban history and culture, particularly in the 20th century, and 2) librarianship in the context of the Cuban revolution. Considering these two related subjects through the life and work of Marta... |
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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
Kenan Trebincevic · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his familyAt age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends,... |
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Arthur St. Clair: The Invisible Patriot
R. W. Dick Phillips · iUniverse
Format: Hardcover
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During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took over the leadership... |
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