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“sylvia beach”

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  • The Letters of Sylvia Beach

    by Sylvia Beach ...
    Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Friends and clients include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Ezra Pound, Janet ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • A Barbarian in Asia

    by Henri Michaux ...
    Translated by Sylvia Beach ...
    A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time” (Jorge Luis Borges)Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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    "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." — The New York Times Book ReviewRachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • North Korea: On the Inside, Looking In

    by Dualta Roughneen ...
    North Korea remains one of the last bastions of old-style communism: a military dictatorship, ruled with an iron grip for the last sixty years by the Kim dynasty. Every aspect of society is rigidly controlled; a country of paranoia, propaganda, and juche.Irish Engineer, Dualta Roughneen, experienced the trials and tribulations of North Korea from 2004 to 2007 as an aid agency worker - keeping ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Here, There, Elsewhere

    Stories from the Road

    by William Least Heat-Moon ...
    This collection of travel tales from the road is "an admirable combination of reportage and boots-on-the-ground observation" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ).Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Personally selected by the writer, these pieces take us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Marion Zimmer Bradley Complete Planet Savers Science Adventure

    by Marion Zimmer Bradley ...
    Her 1958 novel The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Destruction of the Sex and Gender Boxes

    by Susa Tyrniluoto ...
    Series Book 1 - Essays on gender
    The Destruction of the Sex and Gender BoxesBased on research it has been estimated that nearly two out of every hundred people are biologically intersexual. In addition to the biological level, the bimodality also emerges on the social level, meaning that there are hundreds of millions of people in the world, whose sex and gender cannot be unambiguously defined as either male or female.In spite of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tuttle Mini Korean Dictionary

    Korean-English English-Korean

    Edited by . Tuttle Studio ...
    Series series Tuttle Mini Dictionary
    It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Korean dictionary.Tuttle Mini Korean Dictionary is ideal for any application where a handy and portable dictionary is required. Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to Korea or as a Korean language study reference Mini Korean Dictionary ... Read more

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  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

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  • Up from Invisibility

    Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America

    by Larry Gross ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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    by Genny Beemyn, , Ph.D., Susan Rankin ...
    Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey-one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.-on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals. With nearly 3,500 participants, ... Read more

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  • Slow Boats to China

    by Gavin Young ...
    Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in what is his most famous book. The sequel, Slow Boats Home, is ... Read more

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