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  • The Aesthetic Imperative

    Writings on Art

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Land of the Five Flavors

    A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine

    by Thomas O. Höllmann ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann details the food practices of major Chinese religions and the significance of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Understanding and Treating Anxiety in Autism

    A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

    by Estate Sokhadze, Eva Lamina, Emily L. Casanova, Manuel Casanova, Desmond Kelly, Judy Van de Water, Micaela Edelson, Brad Ferguson, David Beversdorf, Kimberly Law, Karen Margolis, Kelly McCracken Barnhill, Virginia Spielmann, Lucy Jane Miller, Margaret Bauman, Temple Grandin, Tomoya Hirtoa, Jordan Brooks, Robert Hendren, June Grodin, Leslie Weidenman, Cooper Woodward, Lauren J. Moskowitz ...
    Series series Understanding and Treating in Autism
    Anxiety is a prevalent and often debilitating condition for individuals on the autism spectrum. This book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to intervention and treatment of the condition, providing professional understanding of the underlying causes and available treatments.With chapters co-authored by well-known advocates and pioneering researchers, contributors examine factors including ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophy

    Wisdom as a Practice

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • What We See When We Read

    by Peter Mendelsund ...
    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Cooked

    A Natural History of Transformation

    by Michael Pollan ...
    **Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, How to Change Your Mind, and This is Your Mind on Plants explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked."Having described what's wrong with American food in his best-selling The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006), New York Times contributor Pollan delivers a more optimistic but equally fascinating ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Anatheism

    Returning to God After God

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Coffee

    The Epic of a Commodity

    by H.E. Jacob ...
    A cup of coffee is a miracle, a wonderful assemblage of relationships”. This classic follows coffee's journey around the world, from London to Brazil, telling in fascinating detail and amusing anecdote the singular history of the legendary commodity, from its discovery that chewing on the beans were keeping goats awake in Yemen to the author’s own experiences with the bean in 1935.Referred to as a ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • What Is Philosophy?

    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Of Grammatology

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world.Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Street of Eternal Happiness

    Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

    by Rob Schmitz ...
    'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sleek skyline. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Copy, Archive, Signature

    A Conversation on Photography

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Jeff Fort ...
    This book makes available for the first time in English—and for the first time in its entirety in any language—an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD