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“lea ypi”

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    Coming of Age at the End of History

    by Lea Ypi ...
    **Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeWinner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography AwardShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award • Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Washington Post, Financial Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs, Public ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Indignity

    A Life Reimagined

    by Lea Ypi ...
    The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother Leman honeymooning in the Alps in 1941, posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Real Border Crisis

    by Lea Ypi ...
    This issue features a forum led by Lea Ypi on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, with responses from Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Daniel Denvir, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Chandran Kukathas, Ayelet Shachar, and Dara Lind.Also in this issue:Panashe Chigumadzi on the language of “apartheid” and “settler colonialism” in political resi... ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Democracy

    Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters

    by Professor Mary Beard, Erica Benner, Kaja Kallas, Aditi Mittal, Vjosa Osmani, Adela Raz, Elif Shafak, Lola Shoneyin, Yuan Yang, Lea Ypi, Margaret Atwood ...
    A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2024This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters.In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with billions heading to the polls. It's a thrilling, unprecedented opportunity for change - yet democracy is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Architectonic of Reason

    Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

    by Lea Ypi ...
    The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Kant and Colonialism

    Historical and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katrin Flikschuh, Lea Ypi ...
    This is the first book dedicated to a systematic exploration of Kant's position on colonialism. Bringing together a team of leading scholars in both the history of political thought and normative theory, the chapters in the volume seek to place Kant's thoughts on colonialism in historical context, examine the tensions that the assessment of colonialism produces in Kant's work, and evaluate the ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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    A Child and a Country at the End of History

    by Lea Ypi ...
    Narrated by Lea Ypi, Rachel Babbage ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans.Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Indignity

    A Life Reimagined

    by Lea Ypi ...
    Narrated by Lea Ypi, Rachel Bavidge ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 28 min

    The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Library of Ancient Wisdom

    Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

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  • Cleopatra

    Histories, Dreams and Distortions

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  • The School of Night

    A Novel

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Translated by Martin Aitken ...
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    $13.99 USD

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