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“sarah lightman”

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  • Jewish Women in Comics

    Bodies and Borders

    Edited by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, Sarah Lightman ...
    In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a light on the significant contributions of Jewish women to comics.The volume features ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions

    National, Transnational, and Global Perspectives, 1800–1920

    Edited by Bernard Lightman, Sarah Qidwai ...
    Series series
    Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse mediums, geographic contexts, and religious traditions. Spanning within and beyond Europe and North ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Graphic Details

    Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews

    Edited by Sarah Lightman ...
    The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed exhibition "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women."The comics are enhanced by original essays and interviews with the artists that ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

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    How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

    by Harry Brod ...
    From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.Many of us know that thesuperheroes at the heart of the American comic book industry were created by Jews. But you’d be surprised to learn how much these beloved characters were ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Visualizing Jewish Narratives

    Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels

    Edited by Dr Derek Parker Royal ...
    Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels – including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • The Argumentative Indian

    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    by Amartya Sen ...
    India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition.The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Anne Frank Unbound

    Media, Imagination, Memory

    by Barbara Kishenblatt-Gimblett, Jeffrey Shandler ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    "A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story." —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of CaliforniaAs millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horizons

    A Global History of Science

    by James Poskett ...
    'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Tough Enough

    Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

    by Deborah Nelson ...
    This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Comedy

    A Serious History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    **Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist**In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands” ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

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  • Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Law ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally misrepresented.Stephen Law explores how humanism uses science and reason to make sense of the ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    Edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD