Contested Cultural Heritage
6,076円 Cultural heritage is material – tangible and intangible – that signifies a culture’s history or legacy. It has become a venue for contestation, ranging in scale from protesting to violently claimed and destroyed. But who defines what is to be preserved and what is to be erased? As cultural herita...
Creeks and Kitchens
388円 Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text. In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his boyhood...
They Call Me Baba Booey
1,399円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes all-new ma-ma-material! ALL NEW CHAPTER: Baba Booey’s Afghanistan Journal! and . . . the Shvoogie Buzzer story! One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant t...
Going Within
777円 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Renowned actress Shirley MacLaine reveals the secrets of her intimate journey of transformationーand invites you to begin your own. Through three international bestsellers, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, and It’s All in the Playing, multitalented Shirley MacLa...
I Visited Heaven, But Lived In Hell
1,250円 This book makes the perfect gift to send to any soldier, whether in active duty or retired. Nelson Peregoy was born in 1938 to a 70 year old coal miner father and a 30 year old mother. After graduating high school at l 7, he enlisted into the Army. The first week he was told he had a genius IQ. T...
So Many Books, So Little Time
1,088円 “Will make many readers smile with recognition.”ーThe New Yorker “Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”ーPeople **“This book is bliss.”ー**The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known pub...
Amazons
3,443円 When E.J. Levy arrived in northern Brazil on a fellowship from Yale at the age of 21, she was hoping to help save the Amazon rain forest; she didn’t realize she would soon have to save herself. Amazons: A Love Story recounts an idealistic young woman’s coming of age against the backdrop of the ma...
John Ringo, King of the Cowboys
2,118円 Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragical...
J. R. R. Tolkien
1,456円 The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey, pres...
Abu Dhabi Days, Dubai Nights
1,687円 When Jillian Schedneck takes up a position teaching English to a classroom of UAE students in Abu Dhabi, she is young, idealistic, in love, and ready to take on the world. But it is not exactly what she anticipated: her mostly female students are only attending university as a token distraction f...
While They Slept
933円 Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free afte...
Going Overboard
2,022円 In 1999, Sarah was a typical bride-to-be, flustered with wedding details. Then the groom called. “I don’t want you to panic, but I might not be able to come to our wedding....” So began Sarah Smiley’s life as a military wife. As a former Navy brat herself, Sarah knew better than anyone that weddi...
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