The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.

Written by an academic with extensive experience in translator education, its strong pedagogical emphasis makes it the essential entry-level textbook for courses introducing students to professional translating within translation studies and translator training.

The important and intimate political memoirs of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021.

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As China reopens to the world, an expert insider's guide on how and where to capitalise on policy changes and trends in what is soon to be the world's largest economy, in order to find the long-term business opportunities.

Bringing to life scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, this bestselling book reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there.

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