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17 produkter
Theatre of the Unimpressed
In Search of Vital Drama
Häftad, 2015
211 kr
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Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer-gut he’d become. There …
Closer
Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality
Av Sarah Barmak
Häftad, 2016
123 kr
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QUILL & QUIRE BEST OF 2016QUILL & QUIRE BEST COVER OF 2016We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated if anything, we’re told we’re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over half of women report having a sexual complaint, whether that’s lack of …
Hard To Do
The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up
Häftad, 2018
175 kr
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Whatever the underlying motivesbe they love, financial security, or mere masochismthe fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally, morally, and even politically fraught. In Hard To Do, Kelli Marìa Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic …
Army of Lovers
A Community History of Will Munro
Häftad, 2013
132 kr
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"Will was pretty much the perfect role model." -- Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes when local artist, DJ, activist, impresario, promoter, party-thrower, cafe operator, community-builder and lover Will Munro died of brain cancer …
In Love with Art
Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman
Av Jeet Heer
Häftad, 2013
139 kr
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"Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not only by what he writes, but how …
Gods of the Hammer
The Teenage Head Story
Av Geoff Pevere
Häftad, 2014
135 kr
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Teenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the insanely devoted. And they almost became world famous. Almost. Told by film critic and pop-culture …
Trouble with Brunch
Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure
Häftad, 2014
123 kr
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What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class? Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outre food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of …
Inspection House
An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
Av Tim Maly, Emily Horne
Häftad, 2014
117 kr
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In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require …
Bright Eyed
Insomnia and Its Cultures
Av RM Vaughan
Häftad, 2015
135 kr
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For forty years, RM Vaughan has been fighting, and failing, to get his forty winks each night. He's not alone, not by any stretch.More and more studies highlight the health risks of undersleeping, yet we have never been asked to do more, and for longer. And we can’t stop thinking that a lack of …
Men of Action
Av Howard Akler
Häftad, 2015
135 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2016 CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIRSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 TORONTO BOOK AWARDSThe problem of consciousness may just be a semantic one. The brain absorbs a sea of sensory input, the tiniest fraction of which reaches the shore of our awareness. We pay attention to …
You Only Live Twice
Sex, Death, and Transition
Häftad, 2016
135 kr
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YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.What …
Haircuts by Children, and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract
Häftad, 2017
131 kr
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We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian regime, whether they buy into it or not. But their unique perspectives also offer …
Last Word
Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy
Av Julia Cooper
Häftad, 2017
191 kr
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A lively examination of why the modern eulogy should rest in peace.Finding the right words to reckon with a loved one’s death is no easy task, and the pressure to grieve in a timely fashion only makes the difficulty of saying a meaningful goodbye that much harder. We are continually instructed to …
Curry
Reading, Eating, and Race
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own upbringing, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the …
Matter of Taste
A Farmers' Market Devotee's Semi-Reluctant Argument for Inviting Scientific Innovation to the Dinner Table
Häftad, 2023
159 kr
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Disfigured
On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Av Amanda Leduc
Häftad, 2020
170 kr
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A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty?If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how …
On Nostalgia
Av David Berry
Häftad, 2020
159 kr
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From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force …
