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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...
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...
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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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...
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...
A Memoir of My Former Self (Heruitgave)
a Life in Writing
2024 || Paperback || Hilary Mantel || John Murray
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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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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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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...