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  • Repealing National Prohibition

    Second Edition

    by Krings, David E. Kyvig ...
    In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S. constitutional development, and illuminates continuing public policy issues of alcohol and drug ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Disappearance

    A Novel

    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Collateral Damage

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memoryWidely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Baghdad Noir

    by Muhsin al-Ramli, Nassif Falak, Sinan Antoon ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    This unique anthology of Iraqi noir fiction collects fourteen original stories of crime, conspiracy, regret, and revenge in the capital of Iraq.The centuries-old city of Baghdad has known many rulers, many troubles, and many crimes. But while most Iraqis would agree that their life has always been noir, there has not been a literary tradition to capture this aspect of the culture. By commissioning ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Loss and Lavender

    A Novel

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    **A Best Book of the Year So Far by The New YorkerIn this achingly beautiful novel of trauma, memory, and identity, two Iraqi men struggle to start a new life in the United States after the Gulf War.**Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. As he tries to navigate this new city, it becomes increasingly clear he is losing his memory due to dementia. Every day he ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dis.Ordering Distribution

    Infrastructures, Formats and Practices in the Circulation of Culture

    Edited by Cornelia Storz, Vinzenz Hediger, Matthias Krings ...
    Series Book 94 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    Dis.Ordering Distribution explores the intricate relationship between distribution and production, drawing on empirical evidence from two vibrant centers of cultural production: Africa and Asia. Delving into how cultural entrepreneurs engage with global distribution platforms and the resulting impact on the creation of cultural artifacts, the analysis reveals that digital platforms are not merely ... Read more

    $136.39 CAD

  • The Corpse Washer

    by Sinan Antoon ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad’s Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father’s wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Sleep Thief

    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    The experimental first novel from International Booker-Prize longlisted Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem, rails against the commodification of suffering, and dreams of a Palestinian identity that will transcend sorrow. ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care

    Philosophical Background and Ethical Implications for End-of-Life Care

    Edited by Yvonne Denier, Chris Gastmans, Antoon Vandevelde ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? How should we value health? What are its ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Remix and Revision

    African Popular Culture and Its Dialogues with Europe

    Edited by Matthias Krings, Izuu Nwankwọ ...
    This book takes a critical look at contemporary digital forms of African popular cultural production, examining how they articulate relationships between Africa and Europe, and between Africans and Europeans.The current state of African popular arts has been made possible by two major media transformations—mass media liberalisation and increased internet connectivity across the continent. With ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 3 (2024 Edition)

    by Friedrich Nietzsche, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry Rider Haggard, Plato, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Victor Hugo, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, David Herbert Lawrence, Jack London, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Grant Allen, Dale Carnegie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, H.P. Lovecraft ...
    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]- Lady Susan par [Jane Austen]- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]- The ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Global Nollywood

    The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

    Edited by Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    "Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa." —Brian Larkin, Barnard CollegeGlobal Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus