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  • Turn Again To Life

    by A Zukowski ...
    I stared at the photographs, mesmerised by the mystery of the two women. Their bodies and skin have been frozen in time, turned porcelain white and uncovered on the north face of Mont Blanc. They were once lost to the eternal silence of the snowy peaks, waiting to tell their stories. Who were these two unknown mountaineers to each other, and why were they summiting unaided, alone at the pinnacle ... Read more

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  • Blue Jay

    by A Zukowski ...
    Third part of the London StoriesBoxing was all Alex had ever known, his entire being now shattered beyond repair. One night and four years in jail changed everything. These days, Alex prefers the shadows and dreams of nightmares. Will he find rainbows and glitters in the run-down flat he's moving into?Chris has been selling their looks and body for too long. It may be time for a life change, but ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christmas on the Screen

    Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality

    “Christmas movies are revealing windows into religion, consumerism, family, and American pop culture, and Zukowski offers a compelling, highly readable guide to this long-flourishing genre. Exploring classics as well as flops, he illuminates both the resilience and the limitations of the holiday’s celebration on screen.” —Leigh E. Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Consumer ... Read more

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  • Courting Light

    by A Zukowski ...
    Our days were numbered but precious.Courting Light is the story of Josie, an eighteen-year-old about to leave home to start university in London. She volunteers at a summer camp for disabled children. When Josie is paired with the autistic teenager Lucian, she faces intense experiences that are truly eye-opening. To her surprise, Lucian is not the only one who captures her attention. Over the ... Read more

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  • Liam For Hire

    by A Zukowski ...
    Liam Murphy has kicked his drug habit and now pays for the high living costs in London as an escort. His life is finally in balance. His only problem is that he obsesses about the minimum number of times he has to bend over to make ends meet. As long as he has his emotions under control, it'll be fine. That's what Liam keeps telling himself until he meets the young widower Alastair, also known as ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Giants: Overlooked Revolutions in Natural Philosophy

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a collection of contributions that identify and exemplify a wide range of overlooked, subversive changes in the history of natural philosophy, spanning from antiquity to modernity. The guiding principle of the volume is to address questions that arise from Kuhn's approach to the problem of paradigmatic change. While it is tempting to follow in Kuhn's footsteps and see the history ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Year 1966

    Socialism and Nationalism in the Polish People’s Republic

    Series series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
    Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People’s Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn toward the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute between different social actors.The book explores the question of what happened in Polish culture at that time: how social ties were defined, where ... Read more

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  • Seasons of Love

    Love follows no rules. Like sun in winter and rain in summer, love can blossom in the most unexpected places. This richly diverse collection of stories proves that love is as universal and as varied as the seasons.The Stories:Tourist Season – Deven BalsamMachete Betty and the Office Sharks – Neptune FlowersOnce Around Seven – Ofelia GrändWinter Blossoms – Paul IasevoliYear of the Guilty Soul – A.M ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015

    The Story of Innocence

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority politics of memory. The category is of performative character since it defines the roles of event participants, assumes passivity of the non ... Read more

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  • Philo-Semitic Violence

    Poland's Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives

    Series series Reading Trauma and Memory
    Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives addresses the growing popularity of philo-Semitic violence in Poland between the 2000 revelation of Polish participation in the Holocaust and the 2015 authoritarian turn.Elzbieta Janicka and Tomasz Zukowski examine phenomena termed a “new opening in Polish-Jewish relations,” thought to stem from sociocultural change and the ... Read more

    $98.89 USD

  • 100 Spiritual Movies to See before You Die

    Spiritual themes are common in movies: The unconventional savior. The hero’s journey. The redemption tale. The balance of creation. Journalist John A. Zukowski reflects on twelve major spiritual themes in the world of cinema, discussing films from Dead Man Walking to Bruce Almighty, from Groundhog Dayto Chariots of Fire, and many more. See them all—read them all—before you die! ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Forgetting Polish Violence Against the Jews

    The Great Whitewash

    Series series Memory Studies: Global Constellations
    During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence toward Jewish neighbors. This book shows how these memories continue to be distorted and silenced in the Polish culture.Considering the ways in which Polish culture displays symptoms of a suppressed and violent memory while obstinately refusing to see the meaning of such ... Read more

    $64.99 USD