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  • Every Minute Is First

    Selected Late Poems

    de Marie-Claire Bancquart ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    The first full-length English translation of this celebrated French poet offers a penetrating and encompassing collection touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and—always—the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole worlds, even afterlives, in daily instances and spaces. "If I could seize a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • If You Cross the River

    A Novel

    de Geneviève Damas ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words.Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm's pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, François can't help but wonder about the wider ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Severed Head

    Capital Visions

    de Julia Kristeva ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Pink

    The History of a Color

    de Michel Pastoureau ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Proust, a Jewish Way

    de Antoine Compagnon ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Eleven

    de Pierre Michon ...
    Traducido por Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding ...
    In The Eleven, Michon lets us into the world of Corentin, a painter shaped by—and who eventually shapes—history. Brought up among provincial aristocracy to become a favorite of Parisian society—his paintings are commissioned by Louis XV’s mistress—Corentin’s career rides the Tides of the French Revolution. His masterpiece, "The Eleven," is an enigmatic Last Supper, representing the eleven members ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • White

    The History of a Color

    de Michel Pastoureau ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated book, Michel ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • Yellow

    The History of a Color

    de Michel Pastoureau ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau—a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red—now traces the visual, social, and cultural history of yellow. Focusing on European societies, with comparisons from East Asia, ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Second Star

    and other reasons for lingering

    de Philippe Delerm ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windowsA still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorrow" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing.Whether biting into a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Lichens

    Toward a Minimal Resistance

    de Vincent Zonca, Emanuele Coccia ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • Everyone Dies Young

    Time Without Age

    de Marc Augé ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    "We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view of the years whose total sum when set forth can stupefy us. Age wedges each of us between a date of birth that, at least ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Science of the Oven

    de Hervé This ...
    Traducido por Jody Gladding ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What accounts for these extraordinary transformations?The answer: chemistry and physics. With his trademark eloquence and wit, Hervé This launches a wry ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD