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A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)
Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is s…

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Invisible Contrarian

Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950--2019), who did pion…

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Stephen Sparks,
Fog

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fog, a cloud that touches the ground, marks the fuzzy and shifting boundary of just how much (or …

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Randy Malamud
Crash!

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the v…

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Randy Malamud
Crash!

"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the v…

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Simone Murray
The Digital Future of English

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of wh…

lieferbar ab 14.11.2025.

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Saul Noam Zaritt
A Taytsh Manifesto

A Taytsh Manifestocalls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture, that identifies-in Yiddish and beyond-how cultures intertwine, how they become implica…

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Saul Noam Zaritt
A Taytsh Manifesto

"This provocative book highlights the transnational role of Yiddish over the past hundred years. By emphasizing Yiddish's translational qualities, Zaritt powerfully reimagines the language outside th…

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Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society

In essays on film, literature, capitalism, and the university, this book illuminates and deepens the understanding of the parasite as a concept metaphor for cultural and social critique.

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Hal Crowther
Bible Belt Blues

Like most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the bit…

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Simona Supekar,
Stock Photo

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated stock photography. Stock Photo blends memoir and cultural history to mine how this unique m…

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The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications, a century after René Girard's birth.

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new one- they are true tools for thinking. In Tools of Endless Invention, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked fact…

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Ellena Savage
Blueberries

'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.'Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland …

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Roger Luckhurst
Graveyards

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today's green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How h…

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Mel Stanfill
Fandom Is Ugly

"In theory, fans are people who love something, so why, across cases from comic books to TV shows to YouTube to politicians to fan fiction, do fans engage in large-scale social media harassment to ex…

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Jane Custance Baker
Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a compre…

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Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Required Reading

How ordinary forms of writing---including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines---shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empireIn Required Reading , Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers …

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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