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On the Shoreline of Knowledge
Irish Wanderings
Av Chris Arthur
Häftad, 2012
205 kr
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The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of …
Detailing Trauma
A Poetic Anatomy
Häftad, 2012
249 kr
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In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer - and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can continue to live and love in …
Fluency of Light
Coming of Age in a Theatre of Black and White
Häftad, 2013
203 kr
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In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents, examines the experience of her mixed-race identity. Embracing the far-ranging stimuli of her media-obsessed upbringing, she grasps at news clippings, visual …
In Earshot Of Water
Notes from the Columbia Plateau
Häftad, 2011
181 kr
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Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that run there, or the people he has known there, Paul Lindholdt's In Earshot of Water illuminates the Pacific Northwest in vivid detail. Lindholdt writes with the precision of a naturalist, the critical eye …
Anthropologies
A Family Memoir
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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A vivid archive of memories, Beth Alvarado’s Anthropologies layers scenes, portraits, dreams, and narratives in a dynamic cross-cultural mosaic. Bringing her lyrical tenor to bear on stories as diverse as harboring teen runaways, gunfights with federales, and improbable love, Alvarado unveils the …
In the Memory of the Map
A Cartographic Memoir
Häftad, 2012
210 kr
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Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerised by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping …
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Dream Life and ""Seeing Things
Häftad, 2013
170 kr
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The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up Stories We Tell Ourselves draw from the author’s richly diverse experiences and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to several unexpectedly profound destinations. A steady accumulation of fascinating science, psychoanalytic …
Mythical Bill
A Neurological Memoir
Häftad, 2013
184 kr
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Part medical mystery, part war story, and part social and family history, The Mythical Bill is the story of how one man’s physical and mental pain radiates outward into the life and mind of each member of his family. Weaving together diary entries, correspondence, and scrupulous research, Jody …
