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Now We Are in Power Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780822947783
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
During the first decade of the century, Evo Morales and other leftists took control of governments across Latin America. In the case of Bolivia, Morales was that country’s first Indigenous president and was elected following five years of popular insurrection after decades of neoliberal governance. Now We Are in Power makes the argument that the so-called Pink Tide should be understood as a passive revolution, a process that has two phases: a period of subaltern struggle from average citizens strong enough to culminate in a political crisis, which is followed by a time of reconciliation and transformation.
Small in Real Life Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780822947998
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Small in Real Life invokes the myth and melancholy of Southern California glamor, of starry-eyed women and men striving for their own Hollywood shimmer and the seamy undersides and luxurious mystique of the Golden State. Exiled to a Malibu rehab, an alcoholic paparazzo spies on his celebrity friend for an online tabloid. Down to her last dollar, a Hollywood hanger-on steals designer handbags from her dying friend’s bungalow.
Stop Lying Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9780822967040
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Stop Lying is Aaron Smith’s most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of Smith’s mother and how the poet, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed as sinful and unnatural, these poems plumb the complexities of what families say and choose not to say. How does one grieve when a relationship will forever remain unresolved?
Take Me to Stavanger Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9780822967163
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Amid the din of Russia’s patriotic sentiments and Instagram instants, is there any room left for the voice of a poet? Despite the many entertainments and distractions of modern life, Anzhelina Polonskaya’s spare but cutting poems in Take Me to Stavanger declare a wholehearted “Yes.” This bilingual Russian-English volume makes a refuge for the poet and her readers, plumbing the depths of contemporary melancholy and ennui.
That Ship Has Sailed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822967057
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
That Ship Has Sailed synthesizes the serious and comic to address sex, love, loss, death, belief, the afterlife, and the past. The poems are honest and direct without sacrificing “the uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts” that Keats singles out in his notion of “negative capability,” alluded to in the title poem. Amplified by the poet’s work as a traditional Irish musician and composer, language is the adhesive that brings the work together across the avant-garde to traditional forms and meters.
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 12 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9780822946892
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Description:
The twelfth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 326 letters and covers the fifteen months of Tyndall’s life from March 1871 through May 1872, a time when he was a central figure in the field and had a substantial reputation in both the UK and the US. It begins just before the publication of Fragments of Science in April and Hours of Exercise in May. It includes a number of small but public disputes about science.
The Invention of Imagination Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780822947400
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Aristotle was the first philosopher to divide the imagination—what he called phantasia—from other parts of the psyche, placing it between perception and intellect. A mathematician and philosopher of mathematical sciences, Aristotle was puzzled by the problem of geometrical cognition—which depends on the ability to “produce” and “see” a multitude of immaterial objects—and so he introduced the category of internal appearances produced by a new part of the psyche, the imagination. As Justin Humphreys argues, Aristotle developed his theory of imagination in part to explain certain functions of reason with a psychological rather than metaphysical framework.
The Rock That is Not a Rabbit Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780822967156
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Change arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift “billowing, unattached,” and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon’s head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves.
Trailer Park Psalms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822967125
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Trailer Park Psalms traces the speaker’s journey beyond his boyhood trailer park, through an American landscape marked by violence—from a gas line explosion in his hometown to his father’s war memories to the scars of colonialism inscribed in place, language, and ecology. Along the way, he searches for sources of awe that might inspire us, even in a compromised world: the everyday miracle of eyesight, the courage of the Voyager spacecrafts, and the “clumsy kindness” of family members trying to mend the damages of the past. In the end, what he finds isn’t faith but the hope that “if there’s a heaven, we will bend / to examine our old selves / and wonder how something so delicate / was ever allowed.
Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822967187
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
A Poetic Autobiography—Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny Lynn Emanuel’s sixth collection of poetry is not sequential or straightforward. It has no conventional chronology, no master narrative. Instead, it is a life story, with all the chaos and messiness entailed therein.
I Say the Sky Cover I Say the Sky Cover
Format: 
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780813198637
Pub Date: 16 Jan 2024
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780813198644
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2024
Series: University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series
Description:
In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world - and a human world - that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation, and discovers, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways, wisdom, wonder, and peace. Colburn's brilliant second book charts a journey to meet the self.
Feeding the Ghosts Cover Feeding the Ghosts Cover
Format: 
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780813198798
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780813198804
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2024
Description:
Find the beauty. In 2017, writer and educator Rahul Mehta began a writing practice to find solace and beauty—in the natural world, in their family and friends, and in everyday simplicities—during a time of political tensions, environmental disasters, a global pandemic, and personal disappointment. From the vibrant color of a blade of grass, to their dog sleeping quietly in the corner, to delicate petals fallen from a rose, a mindfulness of the beauty in their surroundings helped offset the feelings of fear, outrage, and helplessness.
Come in Spinner Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781922669421
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2023
Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Description:
Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers’ gambling game, has given Australian English many unique words and phrases. The game is significant in Australia’s cultural history. This book is the essential guide to the language and history of the ‘national game’.
Expanding media histories Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9789189361676
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2023
Illustrations: 40
Description:
Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media.

Words, Wonder, and the Divine in You

Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781942155652
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2023
Description:
Deborah Roof, a queer Christian pastor, shares her experience,strength and hope and invites the reader to take their own spiritualjourney. Exemplifying her authentic gift of hospitality Roof shares thetruth she has come to know: divinity dwells within each one of us. Shefinds God in the wonder of the created world and in the scriptures shehas come to love.
Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781789259018
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2023
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those involved exploit opportunities to adapt old features and develop new ones.