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  • The LEGO Ideas Book

    by Simon Hugo, Tori Kosara, Julia March, Catherine Saunders ...
    Series series Lego Ideas
    A brand-new edition of the best-selling LEGO® book of all time! - with hundreds of all-new models!Unlock your imagination with this colorful treasury of more than 100 new building ideas created by LEGO® fan builders. Learn tips and tricks to become a better builder. Find out how professional LEGO designers get their ideas and meet the fan builders. Get inspired to make your own brick-built ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • We/She

    by Rosalind Stopps, Jennifer Rickard, Arike Oke, Carolyn Eden, Elizabeth Simon, Elizabeth Stott, Fiona Salter, Ilona Choudhury, J A Hopper, Jenny Ramsay, Lucy Ribchester, Joanne L. M. Williams, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Julia Kent, Peng Shepherd, Swati Khurana, Uschi Gatward ...
    In Collaboration with Liars League. A celebration of the centenary of women in the UK getting the vote. Stories about women by women, which have been performed at one of Liars' League's events in London, Hong Kong, New York or Portland, Everything from fantasy and historical through magic realism to SF and humour. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2021

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...
    Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology and the Blues

    by Justin McLendon, Michael A.L. Broyles, Coldwell Daniel IV, William L. Ellis, Douglas Groothuis, Edward Komara, Jonathan Lower, Jessica McMillan, Michael Sharp0, Alex Sosler1, Julia Simon2, Mark Winborn3 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Book That Made Me

    A Collection of 32 Personal Stories

    by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Bernard Beckett, Cathy Cassidy, Felicity Castagna, Queenie Chan, Kate Constable, Rachael Craw, Alison Croggon, Cath Crowley, Ted Dawe, Ursula Dubosarsky, Simon French, Mandy Hager, Simmone Howell, Catherine Johnson, Will Kostakis, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Benjamin Law, Julia Lawrinson, Sue Lawson, Brigid Lowry, Emily Maguire, Catherine Mayo, Sue McPherson, Jaclyn Moriarty, Mal Peet, James Roy, Shaun Tan, Jared Thomas, Fiona Wood, Markus Zusak ...
    Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

    Interdisciplinary Encounters

    by Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg, Albert Banerjee, Simon Dickel, Katrina Dunn, Michaela Schrage-Früh, Silvia Gerlsbeck0, Stephen Hahn1, Julia Henderson2, Christian Lenz3, Tina-Karen Pusse4, Núria Mina-Riera5, Adrian Tait6, Nassim W. Balestrini8, Jade E. French9, Peter J. Whitehouse0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Debt and Redemption in the Blues

    The Call for Justice

    by Julia Simon ...
    Series series American Music History
    This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come.Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation

    Being Nostalgic or Not in the Anthropocene Era

    by Laurent Godet, Simon Dufour, Anne-Julia Rollet ...
    The Anthropocene era has been marked by such significant human pressure that it has led to the sixth mass extinction. The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation interprets human domination of the Earth as the process of gradual landscape change, the execution of which is neither linear nor homogeneous.This book is structured around three key questions: Where and when did everything go wrong ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

    Blues, Race, Identity

    by Julia Simon ...
    Series series American Music History
    Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and he played vaudeville music, ballads, and popular songs.In this book, Julia Simon takes a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Superhero Multiverse

    Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Cory Barker, Whitney Hardin, Carl Wilson, Joan Ormrod, James C. Taylor, Forrest Johnson, Matthew Thompson, Angelique Nairn, Carmel Cedro0, Blair Speakman1, Simon Bacon2, Anne Lee3, Sophia Staite4, Demi Schänzel5, Justin Matthews6, Michael Soares7, Julia E. Kiernan8 ...
    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Long Year

    A 2020 Reader

    by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Three Loves for Three Oranges

    Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev

    by Caryl Emerson, Alberto Beniscelli, Giulietta Bazoli, Domenico Pietropaolo, Ted Emery, Natalya Baldyga, Raissa Raskina, Vadim Shcherbakov, Laurence Senelick, Julia Galanina, Inna Naroditskaya, Natalia Savkina, Simon A. Morrison, John E. Bowlt ...
    Series series East European Music Studies
    In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges**—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte*****–***infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we ... Read more

    $44.99 USD