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Libri-Fachkatalog Just the Best Januar - Juni 2024 - Neue englischsprachige Bücher - Bestseller aus Frankreich, Spanien und der Türkei

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Libri-Fachkatalog Just the Best Januar - Juni 2017 - Neue englischsprachige Bücher - Bestseller aus Frankreich und Spanien

Portrait

Künstlerportrait/artist portrait bilingual: German/English

My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary - The pocket guide to the language of race

Through their work with organisations and companies across the world, Maggie Semple and Jane Oremosu found that there was a need to help ...

German Literature - A Very Short Introduction

German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introdu...

Mushroom

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on...

Grave

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level vie...

Bird

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famou...

The Meaning of the Photographs in the Novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: 2,0, Fontys University of Applied Sciences Venlo (...

Novelist as a Vocation

Ethical Narratives - Reauthorization of Authorial Agency and Articulation of Authenticity in Post-Postmodern Novels

The authors analyze selected English post-postmodern novels by Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Franzen to demonstrate that a para...

Blanket

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. The...

Traffic

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic co...

Poems for a world gone to sh*t - the amazing power of poetry to make even the most f**ked up times feel better

This uplifting, entertaining and accessible anthology featuring inclusions by voices ranging from Kate Tempest to Walt Whitman amounts to...

Translating Myself and Others

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a...

Papyrus - The No 1 International Bestseller

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUN...

Aesop's Animals - The Science Behind the Fables

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's portrayal of his animals. Despite originat...

Unfinished Business - Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One of our most beloved writers reassess the e...

Clever Betsy; A Novel

The book, "" Clever Betsy; A Novel "" , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgot...

A Book of Irish Verse

The book "" A Book of Irish Verse , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten ...

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel - The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points need...

All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good ...

Saying the Unsayable: - Poethics of Silence in Contemporary North American Novels

Im Kontext nordamerikanischer Literatur bieten Schriftsteller*innen aus marginalisierten Gruppen Gegenerzählungen an, um dem Schweigen, d...

Happy in Berlin? - English Writers in the City, The 1920s and Beyond | Englische Autor*innen der 1920er und 30er Jahre

Faszination, Inspiration und sexuelle Freiheit - ein neuer Blick auf englische Autor*innen und ihr Berlin der Goldenen Zwanziger. John Ch...

Literary Witches

LITERARY WITCHES celebrates the most witchy women of the literary world with beautiful illustrations and mini creative bios. Gorgeous, ee...

Bookish Broads - Women Who Wrote Themselves Into History

Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. Featu...

A Year of Reading Aloud - 52 poems to learn and love

A poem is given for each week of the year to present a sense of the mindful joy of reading aloud.

The Real Thing - Reflections on a Literary Form

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

Shining Sheep - Poems

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières?...

What We See When We Read

A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the Year A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of r...

Ex Libris - 100+ Books to Read and Reread

**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an i...

Translating Myself and Others

"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her fa...

Anatomy of Criticism - Four Essays

Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth ...

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Winner of the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and a Lambda Literary Aw...

Small World - Ireland, 1798-2018

A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

J. A. Cuddon was a writer, school teacher and academic. Best known for his Dictionary of Literary Terms, he also produced the large Dicti...

Around the World in 80 Books - A Literary Journey

'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Green...

The Literature Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

From the Iliad to The Great Gatsby, DK's The Literature Book is a fascinating graphic-led journey through the greatest works of literatur...

Myths & Legends - An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings

The world's great myths and legends, from the Greek gods, goddesses and heroes to the Norse story cycles, presented across vivid retellin...

Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

A history of the dark times "So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause." -Senator Padmé Amidala When Palpatine declared the bi...

George Orwell - The Ethics of Equality

George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first book written by a philosopher about George Orwell's philosophy, especially his ethics....

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer's life

The Gutenberg Parenthesis - The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the ag...

Shakespeare at War - A Material History

This first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime tells a fresh and compelling story about how he has been 'recruit...

Ex Libris - 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to h...

Read Dangerously - The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arm...

100 Novels That Changed the World

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

Consistent Democracy - The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of democracy and the so-called woman question from the 1830s through the 1890s. It sh...

Bibliophile - An Illustrated Miscellany

Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life in this treasure. Readers will discover their next great read in 50 lovingl...

Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature"

This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien¿s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particular...

Pastures of the Empty Page - Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a panth...

A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Art...

What Is Cultural Criticism?

Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice.

Tolkien and Alterity

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critica...

Inventions of a Present - The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard a...

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examin...

Great Novels - The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels. From medieval romances and tales of chivalry found in the ...

Making of Middle-earth - The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork, was the first to connect all the threads of ...

Object Studies - Introductions to Material Culture

Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cul...