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"According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to discriminate against gay people who like cake. They're wrong when they tell you the Second Amendment protects the right to own a private arsenal. They're wrong when they say the death penalty isn't cruel or unusual punishment, and they're wrong when they tell you we have no legal remedies for the scourge...
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A comprehensive food-lover's guidebook to New York City from Eater, the online authority on where to eat and why it matters.
Eater City Guide: New York is your go-to source for getting immersed in NYC's famously vibrant and diverse dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, the guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight into the City That Never Sleeps and its one-of-a-kind...
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A portrait of a place and its people through the writings and musings of one of the Twin Cities' most beloved and prolific writers.
For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cities life, telling the stories of our people, places, and (sometimes delicious) things. If journalism is the first draft of history, what Dara does-reported features and essays-are more like the first draft of culture. What do we see looking back at...
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What sort of mad longing besets a woman-nearing fifty and recently widowed-to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question.
Set in 1990–'91, Judy's story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first...
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Scholar Susan Godwin is hooked when she comes across the captivating story of Mary of Modena-a seventeenth-century Italian princess who was only fourteen when coerced into marriage with the future king of England, James II, yet went on to cultivate a court full of women writers in an age when female authorship was rare. How did Mary achieve such a feat?
Rain Dodging is Susan's creative nonfiction account of the years-long search upon which this...
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Crónica de los excesos de la época de las vacas gordas en el Mediterráneo.
En 2008, Íñigo Domínguez viajó en descapotable por el Mediterráneo para tomarle el pulso a un país que llevaba una década comportándose como un nuevo rico con gomina. España era una falla hortera a punto de arder. Con el asombro de un marciano recién aterrizado en la tierra, fue descubriendo los hitos del milagro económico español: jóvenes ingleses borrachos...
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* Newly revised and expanded version of an industry classic--5,000 sold! * Up-to-the-minute! Includes web, interactive, and green design, new legislation * Each chapter written by an authority on the subject. Here's the definitive guide to professional business practices in graphic design, now fully revised and updated for the digital age. Up-to-the-minute coverage of web, interactive, and motion graphics; green design; potential repercussions of...
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Plongez au coeur du mystère entourant les imposantes statues de basalte de l'île de Pâques
En 1872, le jeune aspirant Julien Viaud, à bord du navire La Flore, fait route entre Valparaiso, capitale du Chili, et Tahiti, territoire français de Polynésie d'o il reviendra avec le pseudonyme de Pierre Loti (1850-1923). La mystérieuse île de Pâques est l'une des premières escales marquantes du futur grand écrivain voyageur, et ses talents de...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
C'est une valse dont les Viennois ne se lassent pas. Dans l'ancienne capitale des Habsbourg, parée de palais et de musées parmi les plus beaux d'Europe, tout est fait pour danser avec la vie.
Il est si facile de raconter la Vienne impériale. De se remémorer la ville assiégée par les Ottomans ou conquise par Napoléon. Plus difficile en revanche est le récit de la Vienne...
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Histoire politique récente de l'Islande
Sous forme de chroniques, Jérme Skalski rend compte de la « Révolution des casseroles » en Islande. Suite au déclenchement de la crise financière internationale à l'automne 2008, l'Islande a choisi de tourner le dos à la « doctrine d'austérité » qui forme actuellement le lieu commun dominant des politiques de gestion de l'après-crise.
Passée du statut de laboratoire de la finance triomphante...
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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians...
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Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces illustrates again that rediscovering an admired author-especially through his or her later works-is every bit as engaging as discovering a new literary voice. Joan Williams, an accomplished and prize-winning southern novelist, published a number of short stories and nonfiction pieces in the later years of her life; a life complicated early on by the influential men with whom she was involved, namely...
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Kim's previous essay collection, Womanish, which we published in 2019, sold over 3000 copies, and was reviewed in the New York Times, and excerpted in the Washington Post.
Blurbs to come from Jerald Walker, whose 2020 collection, How To Make A Slave and Other Essays, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Marita Golden, author of The Strong Black Woman and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
Kim teaches at Emerson College and lives...
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Southern women are inundated with rules starting early-from always wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying, and certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy.
Nevertheless, Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school "lice mom," and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year...
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Tactical knives are the fast-growing field of American bladesmithing. Now, in one groundbreaking volume, tactical knife expert James Morgan Ayres shares more than four decades of real-world experience with purpose-designed knives. You'll find it all in The Tactical Knife: fixed blades, folders, defensive uses, survival uses, product reviews-in short, everything you need to make an informed decision about your choice of a tactical knife.
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While best remembered for her revolutionary work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime was a remarkable travel narrative, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
The impetus behind Wollstonecraft's journey couldn't be more dramatic: Her relationship with her lover on rocky ground, Wollstonecraft sets out for Scandinavia in order...
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These nonfiction works span from the 1960s to the 2000s and were produced by one of the great fiction writers of the period. They add critical depth to Shirley Hazzard's creative world and encapsulate her extensive and informed thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They also offer greater access to her brilliant craftsmanship and the multiple...
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Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is a narrative of mother-and-son nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters stand on their own and build upon each other. These explorations of natural history, flora and fauna, and parenting themes demonstrate that the mythic...
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Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women's bodies. In “Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny”, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative-probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history...
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