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  • Three By Echenoz

    Big Blondes, Piano, and Running

    by Jean Echenoz ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale, Mark Polizzotti ...
    A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (The Washington Post), Three by Echenoz demonstrates the award-winning author's extraordinary versatility and elegant yet playful style at its finest.“A parodic thriller sparkling with wit” (L'Humanité), Big Blondes probes our universal obsession with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    by Christin Schillinger ...
    Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Crazy Genie

    by Inès Cagnati ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother—a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village—in this devastating and lyrically rendered novel from a French-Italian maverick.Marie lives with her mother, Genie, in a ramshackle house by a willow-lined river in rural France. Every morning, Genie walks to the neighboring farms to do what work there is to be ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bassoon Reed Making

    A Pedagogic History

    by Christin Schillinger ...
    Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details the historical pedagogical trends of bassoon reed making to examine the impact different methods have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Day

    by Inès Cagnati ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identityIn the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle twenty miles, twice a month, from the high school she attends on scholarship back to her family’s rocky, barren farm. Galla’s loving, overwhelmed mother would ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China

    The Art of Governing Soldiers

    by Nicolas Schillinger ...
    In 1894–1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military reforms and established “New Armies“ modeled after the German and Japanese military. Besides reorganizing the structure of the army and improving military training, the goal was to overcome the alleged physical weakness and lack of martial ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Garden of Monsters

    by Lorenza Pieri ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    In Southern Tuscany, two families are at war while a young woman discovers her path in the acclaimed Italian author's English-language debut.The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome's upper middle-class. When Sauro, an ambitious rancher, and Filippo, a hedonistic politician, become friends and business partners, the stories of their families become irrevocably ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Every Day, Every Hour

    A Novel

    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    by Natasa Dragnic ...
    An exquisitely romantic debut novel that captures the longing of lost—and sometimes found—loveIt is the mid-1960s in a small seaside town in Croatia. Two children, Luka and Dora, meet on their first day of kindergarten. Luka faints the first time he sees Dora and she wakes him with a kiss. The two become inseparable. Over the next few years, they wander the shores of their town, lying on their ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Lady of the Camellias

    by Alexandre Dumas fils ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation"One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Psychology of Stupidity

    Edited by Jean-Francois Marmion ...
    **"We need books like this one." --Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James, and Ryan Holiday.**And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Luckless

    The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought

    by Daniel Schillinger ...
    What is luck? What is the significance of luck for our ethical and political lives? Could it be the case that luck is an intoxicating illusion, which threatens to obscure the true explanations of human action, excuse wrongdoing or cowardice, provoke powerful emotions, and cloud judgment? Schillinger's original interpretation of the idea of luck in ancient Greek thought challenges both scholars of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Frederick the Great

    by Nancy Mitford ...
    An entertaining royal biography of Prussian king Frederick the Great—a fascinating character with conflicting visions of authority and reform, power and art—from “one of Britain’s most piercing observers of social manners” (New York Times).The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD