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  • American Rhapsody

    Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

    by Claudia Roth Pierpont ...
    Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age.Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Passionate Minds

    Women Rewriting the World

    by Claudia Roth Pierpont ...
    With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art.Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Urban Dreams

    Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

    Edited by Claudia Roth, Willemijn de Jong, Manfred Perlik, Noemi Steuer ...
    Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Roth Unbound

    A Writer and His Books

    by Claudia Roth Pierpont ...
    A critical evaluation of Philip Roth—the first of its kind—that takes on the man, the myth, and the work.Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Unpacking Globalization

    Markets, Gender, and Work

    by Linda E. Lucas, Fatoumata Badini-Kinda, Angela Beigaruraho Bazaare, Marta Chiappe, Patricia Daniel, Manisha Desai, Elsje Dijkgraaff, Signe Ekenberg, Aurelia Kamuzora, Faustin Kamuzora, Ronit Kark, Margaret Kigozi, Julius Kikooma, Harriet Muwanika Kiwemba, Meg Luxton, Emma Zapata Martelo, Mahua Mukerjee, Juliet Nazziwa Musoke, Ngila Mwase, Vannie Naidoo, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Esperanza Tunon Pablos, Noor Rahamah, Claudia Roth, Saskia Sassen, Lena Sawyer, Margaret Snyder, R C. Swarankar, Catherine Komugisha Tindiwensi, Kristen Timothy, Akello Zerupa ...
    Unpacking Globalization examines the experiences of people living with the forces that are transforming economic systems, culture, gender relationships and governance. The book offers interdisciplinary analysis of the well-being of women and men as they cope with the changes of globalization. Through theory, case studies, and data, several themes emerge indicating that from the household to the ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    American Rhapsody

    Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

    by Claudia Roth Pierpont ...
    Narrated by Pilar Witherspoon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Distant Love

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    Life, Craft, Art

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    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

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