Arcade publishing 2012 (27 résultats)

Paper Back. Etat : Good.

Paper Back. Etat : Good.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. Book.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Drawn and Quartered. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. A Short History of Decay. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. Book.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good Plus. Very Good Plus, internally clean, solid paperback "Advance Reading Copy" . Laid in is a wrinkled letter from an editor to a well known novelist/short story writer seeking a blurb. #.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh. Book.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

6.5 x 9.25" quality Paperback. First Edition. 128pp. Captioned illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Signed by both authors and the Illustrator. Book.

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; illustrated boards, hardcover; viii, 168 pages; black and white illustrations; bottom corners are bumped else very good.

Etat : Fine. First paper bound printing. Paper bound. Fine condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Used - Very Good.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Arcade Publishing, NY, c.2012, 1st.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 730pp., paper blurb on rear cover damaged at bottom by label removal, ow VG $.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Mo Yan, China's most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country's contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic of Wine. In this collection of eight astonishing storiesthe title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang YimouMo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.His passion for writing shaped by his own experience of almost unimaginable poverty as a child, Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits upon an ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their passion fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young couples willing to pay for a place to share their love in private; the abandoned baby brought home by a soldier to his unsympathetic wife; the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of iron and steel; the young bride willing to go to any length to escape an odious, arranged marriage. Never didactic, Mo's fiction ranges from tragedy to wicked satire, rage to whimsy, magical fable to harsh realism, from impassioned pleas on behalf of struggling workers to paeans to romantic love.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. "To miss reading this book would be a deprivation."Los Angeles TimesE. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human historyfocusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and sciencein this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Table of Contents:- Foreword- Directions for Decomposition- The Second-Hand Thinker- Faces of Decadence- Sanctity and the Grimaces of the Absolute- The Décor of Knowledge- AbdicationsTouching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest,"When A Short History of Decay was published, it tended to polarize readers. Many dismissed it as overly morose and pessimistic, completely out of tune with the obligatory optimism of postwar European culture. Others praised it for precisely these reasons (in his review of the book, Maurice Nadeau proclaimed Cioran 'the one whose arrival has been prepared by all the philosophers of the void and of the absurd, harbinger of bad news par excellence'). The original impact of Cioran's book can still be felt in reading A Short History of Decay today."Eugene Thacker, from his Foreword.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly, he refuses to give in to despair. He hits upon this ultimate truth by developing his notion of human history and events as 'a procession of delusions,' striking out at the so-called 'Fallacies of Hope.' By examining the relationship between truth and action and between absolutes, unknowables, and frauds, Cioran comes out, for once, in favor of being.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - - One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature- Ideal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer's Life for Me, and similar works- Written by today's most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelistMo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The heroor antiherois Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his kindness to his peasants. His tale is a heart-wrenching and unique journey and completely riveting tale that shares the author's love of a homeland caught by ills political, traditional, and inevitable.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy.Wright discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man's relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fiction, but to the natural world. In all, he wrote over 4,000 haiku.Here are the 817 he personally chose; Wright's haiku, disciplined and steeped in beauty, display a universality that transcends both race and color without ever denying them. Wright wrote his haiku obsessivelyin bed, in cafes, in restaurants, in both Paris and the French countryside. They offered him a new form of expression and a new vision: with the threat of death constantly before him, he found in them inspiration, beauty, and insights.Fighting illness and frequently bedridden, deeply upset by the recent loss of his mother, Ella, Wright continued, as his daughter notes in her introduction, "to spin these poems of light out of the gathering darkness.".…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - "Makes for compelling reading in America today."New York Times Book Review."I want to try and understand why so many people commit crimes in the name of identity," writes Amin Maalouf. Identity is the crucible out of which we come: our background, our race, our gender, our tribal affiliations, our religion (or lack thereof), all go into making up who we are. All too often, however, the notion of identitypersonal, religious, ethnic, or nationalhas given rise to heated passions and even massive crimes.Moving across the world's history, faiths, and politics, he argues against an oversimplified and hostile interpretation of the concept. He cogently and persuasively examines identity in the context of the modern world, where it can be viewed as both glory and poison. Evident here are the dangers of using identity as a protectiveand therefore aggressivemechanism, the root of racial, geographical, and colonialist subjugation throughout history.Maalouf contends that many of us would reject our inherited conceptions of identity, to which we cling through habit, if only we examined them more closely. The future of society depends on accepting all identities, while recognizing our individualism.…

Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Hbk, 221pp, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on title page, with a separate postcard from the author laid in, appears unread and an excellent clean tight unmarked in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new.