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Una reflexión ágil y viva acerca de la forma en que literatura y política se entrelazanEn este ensayo conciso y clarividente, Richard Ford enuncia algo que muchos de sus lectores han intuido desde siempre en sus libros: que lo artistico, lo etico, lo publico y lo privado no son esferas separadas, sino facetas de una misma experiencia; que, en literatura, lo politico se inscribe en lo intimo, en el lenguaje y en la mirada atenta sobre lo cotidiano.En un iluminador recorrido por su vida y su obra, Ford nos invita a acompañarlo por su Misisipi natal, donde, como es sabido, las leyes no han de entenderse al pie de la letra; por Mexico, donde comprendio que solo el noir podia plasmar la violencia y la corrupcion que lo rodeaba; por las primeras novelas de Frank Bascombe, gracias a las que comprendio que la polis aristotelica comienza en el propio hogar.En palabras sencillas alumbra una pregunta siempre presente en la obra de Ford: ¿como vivir con decencia en un mundo en el que la politica tiende a ser deshonesta? Y lo hace con ironia, con ligereza, rechazando cualquier atisbo de solemnidad: rasgos que son marca de estilo de su literatura. Mucho mas que un testimonio personal, este libro es una meditacion sobre lo que la novela puede y debe seguir siendo hoy: una forma de verdad, de compromiso y de humanidad, en la que lo personal y lo politico se entrelazan indisolublemente.

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29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the worldMixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots presents 29 personal essays that complicate the narrative around race and identitydispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one right or singular way for folks to identify.Born out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellors annual writing workshop, Mixed Roots is filled with pieces infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, and paradoxical truthsgoing beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives. Highlighting various Asian, Black, Native, Latine, and Arab mixed voices from writers ranging from their 20s to 70s, Mixed Roots invites more multiracial and mixed roots people in to actively contribute to the dialogue around race, whether or not they publicly identify as mixed.A powerful collection of personal truths and cultural insight, Mixed Roots reveals how community and narrative can be useful tools to see how alike we are. We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiencesMixed Roots says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.

The definitive boating book for sailors and powerboaters, Americas trusted guide to safe, confident, and joyful boating.For more than a century, Chapman Piloting & Seamanship has been the foundational boating bookthe essential reference trusted by sailors, powerboaters, and navigators on coastal and inland waters. Used and recommended by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Power Squadrons, BoatUS Foundation, and US Sailing, this 70th edition upholds Chapmans standard as the boating bible for every skill level.Inside, readers will find expert guidance on every aspect of boating, sailing, navigation, and seamanship, including: Anchoring and mooring techniques Communication with radar, radio, and satellite systems Engine operation and maintenance for gas, diesel, inboard, or outboard engines How to tie knots, handle lines, and make them fast Navigating day or night in any weather Technology advances in AI, communications, and propulsion Trailerboating and trailer maintenance Weather reading and safety practices With 1,500 full-color photos, charts, and drawings, and a 4,200-entry index, Chapmans offers comprehensive coverage for safe, confident boating. Whether youre learning how to sail, maintaining your vessel, or seeking a gift for boaters or sailors, this classic sailing book remains the ultimate resource. Its ideal for any home nautical library and the handy ebook edition means you can also easily take it on board whenever you set sail.Perfect for: sailing gifts, boating gifts, sailor gifts, boater gifts, sailing log book users, knot tying book collectors, and anyone passionate about life on the water.

Museums are anything but wild. Historically, museums have functioned as key sites for the production of boundaries between nature and culture. Nature might be presented in form and image, but its processes must not be allowed to take hold within museum architecture. In a warming world, climate-controlled interiors are increasingly vulnerable to floods, fires, and power failures. In an effort to address environmental crises, artists chop through walls, fill them with dirt, and bring in insects, plants, and animals, while others leave the institution altogether to embrace the specificity of site. Audiences are drawn outside and off-screen, into zones that recalibrate norms of aesthetic attention. Rewilding the Museum explores a paradox that also lurks at the heart of restoration ecology: We cannot return to past fantasies of "nature." Rather, we must foster ecologies that support biodiversity and stable geophysical cycles. This book asks how artists and curators are working with and against exhibition infrastructures to elaborate contemporary ideas of nature.

Museums are anything but wild. Historically, museums have functioned as key sites for the production of boundaries between nature and culture. Nature might be presented in form and image, but its processes must not be allowed to take hold within museum architecture. In a warming world, climate-controlled interiors are increasingly vulnerable to floods, fires, and power failures. In an effort to address environmental crises, artists chop through walls, fill them with dirt, and bring in insects, plants, and animals, while others leave the institution altogether to embrace the specificity of site. Audiences are drawn outside and off-screen, into zones that recalibrate norms of aesthetic attention. Rewilding the Museum explores a paradox that also lurks at the heart of restoration ecology: We cannot return to past fantasies of "nature." Rather, we must foster ecologies that support biodiversity and stable geophysical cycles. This book asks how artists and curators are working with and against exhibition infrastructures to elaborate contemporary ideas of nature.

A beautiful collection of daily quotes from the Brontes, new for 2026. From the windswept moors of Yorkshire emerged three sisters whose novels would scandalise, astonish and ultimately redefine romantic fiction: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. As their stories continue to find new life on page and screen, The Brontes for Every Day of the Year invites readers to return to the source. Across 365 days, this book draws from Charlottes, Emilys and Annes novels, poems and letters to provide a daily dose of their timeless thoughts on love, life and literature. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre But he that dares not grasp the thorn / Should never crave the rose Anne Bronte, The Narrow Way Complete with seasonal illustrations, this charming collection adds an unmissable touch of Bronte brilliance to every day. The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself!

"A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light."Steve McQueen, artist and Academy Award-winning filmmakerThinking from Black performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. It emancipates and facilitates meaning-making away from a colonialist orientation toward a globalizing storytelling that sets new frequencies, and logics without outcome. In a moment of great cultural, political, and social uncertainty, Thinking from Black curates, animates, demonstrates how we can language our way to new beginnings. This collection is a necessary inspiration, not to be refused.Claudia Rankine, acclaimed poet, author and playwrightAn essential work for Alchemy by Knopf, this book collects a living, breathing lexicon: words, terms, concepts, and ideas that take the multiplicity of Black life as the point of departure.Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributorsthe Practicing Refusal Collectiveare visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers, architects, painters, theorists, activists, anthropologists, filmmakers, educators, and musicians. Each has engaged with the idea of a lexicon of Black living and taken up the invitation to think from Black in relation to their own medium. Some terms are enunciated in a poetic registersuch as Redaction, Seeing, and Song. Some are aspirationalsuch as Solidarity, Garden, and Care. Some entries, such as BlackSound, Fantasy, Mathematics, and Dispossession, work in a more theoretical idiom. Words such as Gesture and Syncopation are composed of both text and drawings, and summon the body in motion. The word Time, which is defined twice, carries with it musicality, duration and refusal. Together, these definitions offer a sense of some of the many ways that Black people tend to each other and the world. Read in relation to each other, the terms create a rich, startling lexicon that is eclectic, elliptical, cross-genre, historical, speculative, and literarya set of words, phrases, concepts, and ideas that are part of the many languages constituting and animating Black life. Thinking from Black is a book to be read with others, as it was created. It is a book to live and think and act with, in the world.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence. Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials make this a beautiful keepsake for new and longtime fans.Magisterial in scope and size, Annie Ernaux: Writing, The Other Life was compiled and edited by Pierre-Louis Fort and was first published in France by Editions de LHerne in 2022, a few months before she received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The anthology includes twenty-four previously unpublished Ernaux pieces, as well as literary criticism, essays, interviews, diary entries, a song by Jeanne Cherhal, newspaper clippings, a comic strip by Aurelia Aurita, letters from Simone de Beauvoir.Never before published in English, this beautifully visual collection includes an 8-page color photo insert with images, handwritten manuscript pages, and drawings sprinkled throughout. It is the fruit of collaboration between six celebrated translators and a groundbreaking work of scholarship and rumination.

A deep dive into the joy and power of personal pleasures, quirks, obsessions and bad taste, from zine royalty, Ione Gamble. Most of us consider taste to be a primal instinct. We like the things we like and everything we choose to consume, covet or loathe in our day-to-day lives is dictated by this unknowable force But at some point, we learn to not fully trust our own taste. We accept that there are people who have better taste than us, so we stop following the flutter of our hearts and attempt to finetune our brain to fall in line with what others consider to be good. The Polyester Book of (Bad) Taste is an antidote to this ever-creeping homogeneity and bland tastefulness. Edited and introduced by Polyester editor-in-chief, Ione Gamble, this book gathers ten influential writers from the pages of Polyester to take on the monumental task of defining taste for a generation battling algorithmic content suggestions and ever shortening trend cycles. It is a bible on how to navigate our own likes, dislikes, apathies and adorations. Contributors include Tavi Gevinson, Cat Cohen and Yomi Adegoke. In a world constantly vying for our attention, having faith in your own (bad) taste is more than a small subversion its a rallying cry to live our lives unapologetically.

Une méthode pratique et progressive pour apprendre facilement le chinois (Niveau A1) : La prononciation de lalphabet et des tons, avec vidéos explicatives 60 leçons basées sur des situations de la vie quotidienne : engager la conversation, demander le chemin, planifier des vacances, demander le prix dans un magasin, commander des plats dans un restaurant, organiser une reunion de travail, consulter un medecin... Dans chaque leçon : une version audio - le vocabulaire essentiel - des exercices cibles (+ corriges) La grammaire de base Des eclairages culturels En ligne : Des videos explicatives Les audios de tous les dialogues et des exercices de comprehension orale

The third anthology from DOPAMINE Books that considers the many-sided splendor of the clown.A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art. A transitioning drag queen muses on being the crazy one, the one who doesnt give a fuck.In this anthology of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more, writers explore and explode the archetype of the CLOWN in all of its humiliating, earnest, magical, subversive glory. From fiction that reveals the humanity beneath the smeared greasepaint to psychedelic autofiction to poetry that exposes normal folk for the sickening anomalies they are, CLOWNS will get under your skin until it liberates your own inner clown, be it a smart-ass or trickster, sad sack or buffoon.With work from Megan Milks, Tania De Rozario, Nicole J. Georges, Clement Goldberg, Catherine Christina Martinez, Julian Delgado Lopera, Justin Chin, Andrea Lawlor, MariNaomi, Sophie Robinson, Chris E. Vargas, and other holy fools.

A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others do not? What principles govern the use of articles? Do these principles apply to article-less languages? These are some of the questions that confront anyone who engages seriously with language, from theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists to language learners and language teachers. In The Open Handbook of (In)definiteness, Veneeta Dayal clarifies how morpho-syntactic signals related to (in)definiteness can be distinguished from interpretation.Dayal provides a path for scholars to describe how (in)definiteness plays out in any language by identifying different aspects of definiteness and indefiniteness, providing short introductions to relevant concepts in formal semantics. Explicit diagnostics are collated in the form of a questionnaire. The volume includes case studies that work in tandem with the questionnaire to probe the interpretive profile of seven typologically unrelated languages, revealing new facets of their grammar. The result is both empirically rich and theoretically intriguing, as Dayal elaborates in her discussion of cross-linguistic variation in the domain of nominal semantics. . Contributions by experts of the seven languages investigated showcase some of the avenues that the volume opens for future explorations.

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A spectacular guide to the creatures and critters of Discworld, packed with wisdom from the great minds of the Disc, as well as interjections from some of its more unconventional thinkers.Discover the best way to care for the Terrible Man-Eating Sloth of Clup, the eating habits of the Ambiguous Puzuma, and marvel at the startling prevalence of ominous ducks in cosmic matters.Wriggling with insights and crawling with wisdom, The Discworld Bestiary is packed with extra advice from Rincewind, Unseen Universitys latest (and reluctant) adjunct professor of Perplexing Beasts and curator of its curiobiological museum.Fully illustrated with brand-new art from Paul Kidby.Praise for the Discworld series:[Pratchetts] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fictionMail on SundayPratchett is a master storyteller GuardianOne of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniestGeorge R.R. MartinOne of those rare writers who appeals to everyone Daily ExpressOne of the most consistently funny writers around Ben AaronovitchMasterful and brilliant Fantasy & Science FictionPratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readableThe TimesThe best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse The Sunday TelegraphNothing short of magical Chicago TribuneConsistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turnsSFX[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our worldTheres never been anything quite like it Evening Standard

La verdadera historia de amor oculta tras Poeta en Nueva York.En agosto de 1929, Federico García Lorca interrumpe su estancia en Nueva York y viaja al norte de Vermont para pasar diez días en una cabaña junto al lago Eden. Alli le espera un joven estadounidense llamado Philip Cummings, profesor de idiomas a quien habia conocido un año antes en Madrid y con el cual mantuvo una relacion amorosa. No obstante, en este reencuentro se manifiestan dos expectativas distintas: la del poeta ya consagrado, que aspira a una relacion duradera, y la de un joven poco dispuesto a desafiar las convenciones sociales de la conservadora sociedad estadounidense. Nadie, hasta ahora, sabia realmente como este momento marcaria para siempre la vida del poeta.Lorca en Vermont, fruto de mas de una decada de investigacion y un cuidadoso trabajo con fuentes de primera mano, reconstruye una relacion que se extendio durante tres años y abarco dos continentes, y examina tanto su intimidad como el posterior silenciamiento critico tras el asesinato del poeta en 1936. Asimismo, propone una nueva lectura de varios poemas de Poeta en Nueva York, al vincular la experiencia afectiva de Lorca con algunas de las partes mas significativas de esta obra.El resultado es un estudio solido y de prosa clara que amplia nuestra comprension de un episodio desconocido hasta ahora pero decisivo en la vida del autor, e integra en su legado una dimension intima que enriquece la interpretacion de su poemario mas emblematico.

»Writing Juárez« ist eine Reflektion über literarische Darstellungen von aktuellen Gewaltdynamiken an der nordmexikanischen Grenze. Tobias A. Jochum verbindet in seiner Studie feministische Anthropol