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On St Patrick's Day in New Orleans, a man and woman meet again for the first time in twenty-five years. A group of friends, no longer young, gather to mourn the death of one of their number. Two teenage boys sit in a drive-in, the air thick with the scent of gin and popcorn, a kiss hanging between them in the dark. A visionary collection of luminous landscapes, of great moments in small lives, of the people we carry with us long after they are...

New York-based photographer Caleb Cain Marcus journeyed 1, 500 miles along the Ganges River to create Goddess, a bold feat of landscape photography. Profoundly painterly, Marcus' images emphasize color, light and atmospheric conditions to explore the tangible quality of space in India and Bangladesh.

Reproduction of the original: Gatherings From Spain by Richard Ford

Reproduction of the original: Gatherings From Spain by Richard Ford

A "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol, fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change, and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns...

The idea of universal rights-rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality, creed, wealth, or geography-has a powerful grip on the way many people feel about justice and global politics. No one should be subjected to torture or disappearance, to starvation or sex trafficking, to economic exploitation or biased treatment under the law. But when it comes to actually enforcing these rights, the results rarely resemble the ideal. In Un...

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss."Displaced” returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrato...

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

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Encountering Extremism offers readers the opportunity to interrogate extremism through a plethora of theoretical perspectives and explore counter-extremism as it has materialised in plural local contexts. Offering a unique, in-depth critical interrogation, this volume seeks to understand and expose the implications of a fundamental problematic: how should scholars and strategists alike understand the contemporary shift from counter-terrorism t...

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This book stands out from the crowd in providing a fresh original perspective on the relatively underexplored area of a leader's reputation. Reputation is a consequence of everything you say or do and no other tangible or intangible asset is worth as much as your reputation or has such a positive or detrimental impact on your career. Many studies reveal that we care more about what other people think about us than we do about what may have act...

Die Irrwege, die uns allen eigen sind Die Menschen, von denen Richard Ford in "Irische Passagiere" erzählt, haben oft knapp die falsche Abzweigung im Leben genommen, oder einfach Pech. Es geht so schnell - ein dummer Seitensprung, eine verpasste Chance, eine plötzliche Krankheit, ein Wirbelsturm und schon ist man unterwegs zur eigenen Scheidung, muss sich ganz neu orientieren, ist plötzlich der Junge, der seinen Vater verloren hat und zum Auße...

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