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  • Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals

    by Daniel A. Dombrowski ...
    Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and that both demand more substantive attention, Daniel Dombrowski harnesses the insights of ancient Greek thinkers to illuminate contemporary athletics ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Qualityland

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Peace and Chaos

    A great discovery should not end up as the creator of mad disease neither in the present nor in the future!

    by Uwe ...
    An artistic piece of portrayal of modern-day yin-yang, push-pull, space-time, force-gravity or Peace and Chaos. A beautifully chronicled literature of moder-day Chaos unleashed by Internet on our lives and to restore some Peace back is so exquisitely portrayed using different shades of a modern-day femme fatale.Internet was supposed to be the discovery of the Century, it turned out as a modern-day ... Read more

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  • By Cold Water

    by Chris Dombrowski ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    A beautiful and meditative collection of poetry rooted in a wonder and deep knowledge of the natural world.New from renowned Michigan-born poet Chris Dombrowski, By Cold Water is a well-crafted and confident collection of poems that journeys into a complex natural world that is both beautiful and threatened. In a measured and contemplative voice, these poems engage in an earthy and eloquent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ragged Anthem

    by Chris Dombrowski ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    Searing new poems from a vital American voice.Ragged Anthem displays the same inimitable voice and unflinching gaze that made Chris Dombrowski a Poetry Foundation bestseller and silver medal winner of Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award in poetry. His work has been celebrated by renowned writers such as Jim Harrison and Alicia Ostriker, who have called his books (respectively) ... Read more

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  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    Was $24.00 USD Now $16.00 USD

  • Anniversaries, Volume 2

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Roman Mass

    by Fr. Uwe Michael Lang ...
    This book is a short introduction to the development of the Roman Rite of Mass, the most widely used of the Church’s liturgical rites, from its origins in early Christianity until the present day. Over the centuries, the form of Mass most Catholics are familiar with has been shaped by the Apostolic See of Rome in contact and exchange with other local churches. Understanding this rich and complex ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Urchin on the Beat

    The Tale of a Bad Adolescence and Its Joyful Conclusion

    by Uwe Siemon-Netto ...
    Urchin on the Beat is the captivating second volume of Uwe Siemon-Netto's memoir series, detailing his tumultuous teenage years in post-war Germany. The story picks up in 1947, where young Uwe endures daily persecution in the Soviet-controlled zone, targeted by his Communist teacher for being a Christian. Desperate for freedom, he escapes to West Germany, leaving behind his beloved grandmother, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Earth Again

    by Chris Dombrowski ...
    Series series Made in Michigan Writers Series
    Stirring meditations on living with a strong connection to the environment, both physical and psychological.The second full-length collection from award-winning poet Chris Dombrowski, Earth Again transports readers to an imaginative world where identity is explored and expanded. With a mixture of long poems and shorter pieces, Dombrowski probes birth, death, sex, memory, and our blessed but ... Read more

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  • The Tower

    Tales from a Lost Country

    by Uwe Tellkamp ...
    In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Kangaroo Chronicles

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Paul-Henri Campbell, Sarah Cossaboon ...
    Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD