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The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

2011 || Paperback || Theo D'haen || Taylor & Francis

This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of World Literature. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo Dhaen examines: the return of the term "world literature" and its changing meaning Goethes concept of Weltliteratur and how this relates to current debatestheories and theorists who have had an impact on world literaturenon-canonical and less-known litera...

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Literary Theory: The Basics

The Basics

2013 || Paperback || Hans Bertens || Taylor & Francis

This third edition of Hans Bertens bestselling book is an essential guide to the often confusing and complicated world of literary theory. Exploring a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism and new historicism Literary Theory: The Basics covers contemporary topics including:reception theory and reader response theorythe new criticism of postmodernismthe after theory debatepost-humanism, biopolitics and animal studiesaestheticsLiterary Theory: The Basics hel...

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The Riverside Chaucer / 3rd edition

Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon

2008 || Paperback || Geoffrey Chaucer e.a. || Oxford University Press

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.

Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...

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Bibliotherapy

The Healing Power of Reading

2023 || Hardcover || Bijal Shah || Veltman Distributie Import Books

In Bibliotherapy, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah draws on her personal experience, work with clients and research to explore the healing power of reading.

From the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - and the important role played by great writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth in its popularisation - to first-hand stories from clients who have struggled with grief, relationships and illness, this book explores just how comforting and life-changing read...

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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

2023 || Paperback || Douglas Wolk || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book

The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale

“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, l...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The international Classic and Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

2020 || Paperback || Maya Angelou || Little, Brown Book Group

The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evoke...

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Exploring Children's Literature

Reading for Knowledge, Understanding and Pleasure

Paperback || Nikki Gamble || SAGE

This book explores the rich and varied world of children's literature and how it can be used in teaching to promote reading for pleasure and create lifelong readers.

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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

The Cyberweapons Arms Race

2022 || Paperback || Nicole Perlroth || Veltman Distributie Import Books

WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

The instant New York Times bestseller

A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year

'A terrifying exposé' The Times

'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker

We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest att...

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His Name Is George Floyd

One man's life and the struggle for racial justice

2023 || Paperback || Robert Samuels e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books

*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION*

*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*

'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES

You know how he died. This is how he lived.

Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?

The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen li...

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Leonard Cohen

The Mystical Roots of Genius

Paperback || Harry Freedman || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

'Among the finest volumes on Cohen's life and lyrics ... An exploration which would have intrigued and engaged Leonard himself.' - John McKenna, writer and friend of Leonard Cohen

Harry Freedman uncovers the spiritual traditions that lie behind Leonard Cohen's profound and unmistakable lyrics

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