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  • 533 Days

    by Cees Nooteboom, Simone Sassen ...
    Translated by Laura Watkinson ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects upon the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardeningThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, “the island of the wind.” It is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Globalization, the State, and Violence

    by Terence Turner, Saskia Sassen, Simone Ghezzi, Enzo Mingione, Michel Wieviorka (EHESS, Paris), Unni Wikan, Donald M. Nonini, Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Fouron, Bruce Kapferer, Steve Reyna, Steven Sampson, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman ...
    Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a critical ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Campo Santo

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  • An Inventory of Losses

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  • To Have and to Hold

    An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting

    by Philipp Blom ...
    "This curiously moving history . . . traces the development of collections since the Renaissance through lively portraits of famous collectors." — The New YorkerFrom amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is ... Read more

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  • The Spectacle of Skill

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    by Robert Hughes ...
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  • Migratory Birds

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    by Cees Nooteboom ...
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