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  • The Creative Spark

    How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters, ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking Outside the Canon

    Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and historiography, Shapiro draws on a variety of disciplinary idioms and texts that span across genres and geographies, ranging from ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • Writing Politics

    Studies in Compositional Method

    by Michael J Shapiro ...
    Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods and events, the book features a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically attuned historiography. Each investigation treats the way ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Politics of Historiography

    A Multi-Genre, Trans-Disciplinary Inquiry

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Responding to the question, "What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?", the textual itineraries in the book's chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives—official geopolitical, state-sponsored history—with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through dispossession, to genocide. With a focus ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

  • A Crooked Line

    The Perils and Rewards of a Life in Freelance Journalism

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    “Here is a writer with a rare gift for appreciation and for reminding us of all we have to celebrate in our fractured world.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known LifeBehind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalismWith a Foreword by Tim CahillA Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place.... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • A Sense of Place

    Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aesthetics of Equality

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Presuming that the problem of political equality, as it bears on both persons and assemblages, is about being accorded access to the material and symbolic resources needed to manage an effective civic presence, Michael J. Shapiro's critical interventions engage the way aesthetic genres illustrate this problem. Addressing literary, cinematic, photographic, musical, art historical, and architectural ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • Living a Purposeful Life

    Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places

    by Kalman J. Kaplan ...
    While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and living with purpose life-enhancing and invigorating. No people seemed to search for meaning in their lives more than did the ancient and classical Greeks. They were not content with living simple lives but oftentimes took on gargantuan tasks ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punctuations

    How the Arts Think the Political

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Politics and Time

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge these key events and the narratives they create?In this book, Michael J. Shapiro provides an ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood?In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the solitary, headphone-wearing defendant at the Hague listening with intent to a catalogue of charges) with ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Political Sublime

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings for new political ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD