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  • Organized Crime and National Security in Spain

    Challenges and Responses

    Edited by Andrés de Castro ...
    This book offers an analysis of how organized crime operates in Spain and the security apparatus designed to contain it.Organized crime is currently one of the most serious security threats facing democratic societies. Despite its intense presence and the responses that states have articulated in recent decades, little attention has been paid to the measurement of the effectiveness of the means ... Read more

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    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    Stories

    by JT LeRoy ...
    Narrated by JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig, Christelle de Castro, Donovan Leitch, Laura Desiree, Kerris Dorsey, Julie Mintz, Winsome Brown, Michael Imperioli0, Libby Mintz1, Joshua Caleb Johnson2, Darnell Martin3, Laura Albert4, Lawrence Rothman5, Paul Mendez6, Pamela Sneed7, Shirley Manson8, Laila Hayani9, SOKO0, Alissa Bennett1, Daniel Newman2, Robin Weigert3, various narrators4 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    The classic JT LeRoy story collection is now available in audio for the first time ever, featuring eleven previously uncollected stories, including one never before published, and an all-star line-up of twenty-one narrators.“Beautifully structured and written.”—Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to BrooklynThis book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run ... Read more

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  • The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

    by Ambrose Bierce & Adolphe Danziger De Castro & Richard Voss ...
    The novel is set in medieval Germany and follows the story of Ambrosio, a monk who becomes embroiled in a series of events involving a young woman, Maria, who is the daughter of the local executioner. The plot unfolds as Ambrosio wrestles with his faith and morals while navigating the complexities of his relationship with Maria.As the narrative progresses, readers are introduced to themes of ... Read more

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  • Loved Clothes Last

    How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act

    by Orsola de Castro ...
    'It's important that everyone with an interest in fashion reads this book so we can live on a healthier planet' Arizona Muse'The most timely book you'll read this year' India Knight* * * * *Running out of space for the clothes you can't stop buying? Curious about how you can make a difference to the environmental challenges our planet faces? Join Orsola's care revolution and learn to make the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ends of the World

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Déborah Danowski ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes ...
    The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Stories from Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine

    Pulphouse

    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Edward Bryant, William F. Wu, Bradley Denton, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Charles de Lint, Adam-Troy Castro, Lisa Tuttle, Steve Perry, Susan Palwick, Nancy A. Collins ...
    Series series Pulphouse
    Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine changed the publishing landscape when the anthology series first appeared in 1988. The series won the World Fantasy Award as a recognition of the power of its fiction and the transformative nature of the publication. From the beginning, award-winning author and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch demonstrated her talent for publishing the cutting edge of late 20th ... Read more

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  • Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Issue # 22

    Pulphouse, #22

    by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, David H. Hendrickson, Adam-Troy Castro, O’Neil De Noux, Don Webb, Scott Edelman, Robert Jeschonek, Rob Vagle, J. Steven York ...
    Series Book 22 - Pulphouse
    The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

    The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series Book 41 - Paradigm ;
    In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also had a tendency to forget the missionaries’ lessons and “revert” to their natural state of war, cannibalism, and polygamy. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cannibal Metaphysics

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series series Univocal
    The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Relative Native

    Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Roy Wagner ...
    Translated by Martin Holbraad, David Rodgers, Julia Sauma ...
    This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, “Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere.”Rounded out with new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Prison Flowers

    by Flavia Ribeiro de Castro ...
    With a gentle, thoughtful narrative driven by an intense rhythm, the author immerses the reader in her story from the very first chapter. As she relates the pains and pleasures of her work within the cold jail environment, she seems able to make us feel exactly what she wants: she makes us laugh, cry, reflect, and face our own doubts and limitations. She shares intimacies and secrets with us, ... Read more

    $11.60 USD

  • Pentecostal Exorcisms in Contemporary Society

    An Ethnographic Study of Ritual and the Making of the Religious Other

    by Leonardo Vasconcelos de Castro Moreira ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book examines Pentecostal exorcisms in contemporary society and offers a framework for understanding how demonization operates as a socially productive force. It focuses on practices within a Global South church with transnational reach, drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out mainly within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (founded in Brazil), as well as comparative ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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