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Form, Matter, Substance Kathrin Koslicki
Oxford University Press 2018
The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951 E. Randol Schoenberg (editor), Adrian Daub (introduction), Arnold Schoenberg , Thomas Mann , Richard Hoffmann , Bernhold Schmid
Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.
Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled against the ethnic hierarchy of Israeli life in the 1970s.
Palestinian Music in Exile : Voices of Resistance Louis Brehony
Palestinian Music in Exile is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locations including Gaza, Turkey, Kuwait, and Egypt.
Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine Refaat Alareer (Editor), Hanan Habashi , Mohammed Suliman , Rawan Yaghi , Nour Al-Sousi , Sarah Ali , Sameeha Elwan , Rawan Yaghi , Nour El Borno , Jehan Alfarra , Yousef Aljamal , Wafaa Abu Al-Qomboz , Tasnim Hamouda , Elham Hilles , Tasnim Hamouda , Shahd Awadallah , Aya Rabah
Gaza Writes Back is a compelling anthology of short stories from fifteen young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel’s siege and blockade.
Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings Cesare Zavattini , David Brancaleone (editor and translator)
This unprecedented collection of Cesare Zavattini's writings in English translation offers the first glimpse into the screenwriter's theoretical, political, and cultural ideas of cinema.
The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis Lance Duerfahrd
How did Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot come to be performed in such places as San Quentin Prison, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, Sarajevo under military siege, New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, and Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests? The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis studies the appeal of Godot to audiences in settings of historical crisis and suffering.
Birds Saint-John Perse
Amazing essay/prose-poem on Braque's paintings of birds. Published in 1966
Essays in the Philosophy of History R. G. Collingwood
Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship.
Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities During Late Antiquity Valentina A. Grasso
This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert.