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Christy Tania
You, too, can make creations you've only dreamed of... you are the master of your own imagination! Embark on a journey of imagination and discovery in Christy Tania's first dessert…
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Ruha Benjamin
In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future
Laura Stanfill
Foreword by Beth Kephart, author of Handling the Truth.
Imagine a Door intersperses craft insights, case studies, and checklists with personal stories about publishing and the emotional complexities of sending…
Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and…
Federica Bueti
Imagination Besieged grapples with the legacies of colonialism and the histories of violence that define the past and present of the Mediterranean in the regional artistic and cultural production.
Judith Wolfe
Judith Wolfe's remarkable book shows that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it challenges that same capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of…
Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy…
Bernard Z. Keo
A political history of Malaysia that prompts reconsideration of the country's path to independence and nationhood, examining the political trajectory of the Peranakan Chinese-a cosmopolitan minority community emerging from intermarriage…
Andrew Porter
From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind
Steven Mills has reached a…
Cornelius Eady
A bracing poetic reflection on the deadly power of the white imagination from acclaimed writer Cornelius Eady.
This spare and haunting play takes its inspiration from the case of Susan…
This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century.
The volume focuses on…
Sean Palfrey
Imagine is the third title in Sean Palfrey's photography book series, featuring previously unpublished work produced over five decades of artistic output
Imagine features Palfrey's lyrical writings set alongside an…
What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production.
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Michael Wilson
An anthology of weekly contemplations and practices for spirituality through the lens of psychology, inspired by the culture and mythology of the Celts in Britain and Ireland and their connection…
Andy Hines
Much is said about the wrongs of capitalism - less on what might replace it. Andy Hines analyzes the options and offers 3 guiding images: an environmentally-driven Circular Commons a…
Lisa Tolin
A stunning biography about one of the brilliant creative minds behind the iconic song Imagine.
Michel Thys
In this fascinating book, Michel Thys explores the limitations of human imagination and symbolisation, showing the potentially destructive result of a mind that cannot confront reality. His wide-ranging research takes…
Contributors consider the vital urgency of human cohabitation with other forms of life, beginning a dialogue with possible futures.
Jon L. Pitt
"This book examines Japanese writers and filmmakers who have responded to moments of crisis in Japan's modern period by imagining what it would mean for humans to be more like…
This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of…
Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth…
Maria Rovisco
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents.
Imagining the Post-Covid Workplace explores the impact of how work and the workplace have changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, cost of living crisis, world-wide inflation, and potential…
Emily Morrow
A picture book from mom and Internet sensation Emily Morrow of Really Very Crunchy, featuring a story that highlights the importance of imaginative play to turn a regular, ordinary day…
Joanna Neilly
The German Romantics were fascinated by the Orient and its potential to inspire poetic creation. E T A Hoffmann was no exception: across the wide range of his work as…
Julia Ditter
"Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century to…
Mickey Mouse navigates a photocopied novel as the end of the world approaches in this gritty artist's book
In his dystopian graphic novel, Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas (born 1980)…
What is imagination? It is what allows humans to differentiate ourselves from machines. In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, it is more crucial than ever…
Soyoung Park
A transformative vision to shift educator practice and make systemic changes that can advance educational inclusion of students of color with disabilities
Edgar Allan Poe
This deluxe hardback edition presents the classic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, featuring striking sprayed edges, gold-embossed cover design and acclaimed illustrations by art nouveau artist Harry Clarke.
Olivia Milburn
Both these highly influential accounts have shaped understandings of the role of women in conquest dynasty courts for centuries, yet both can be shown to be forgeries, dating to the…
Benjamin J. Solomon, Frozen Fish Collective
Cities Untold assembles diverse works to reconceptualize a 'southern urban' that is usually locked within predictable narratives of opportunity and dystopia.
Landon D'Agate
With a teeny tiny seed, patience, and a little extra care, a boy and his community turn a parking lot into a thriving community garden.
This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes. The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global…
Douglas Kearney
On the heels of Sho (winner, Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism), Douglas Kearney's visual poetry masterpiece, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, pushes…
Ronak Husni
This timely book critically evaluates the life, work and milieu of the Tunisian poet, Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi (1909-1934), providing translations and detailed commentaries around his seminal work "al-Khayal al-Shi?ri ?inda…
Imagination isn't a luxury; it's a vital resource and a powerful tool for our collective liberation
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Stephen Hogtun
This picture book shows children and adults alike the incredible power of their imaginations
A stunning picture book about the power and wonder of your imagination.
Every child has their…
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Ariella Aisha Azoulay
A GROUNDBREAKING WORK ON THE POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS A VEHICLE FOR CIVIL PROTEST
Penny Harrison
Age range 3 to 6
Imagine a time when all the world stops,
when all of the clocks no longer tick-tock.
and all of the maps are starting to fade,
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Elias Dakwar
A deeply humane and revolutionary new framework for understanding and treating addiction
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Paul Ricoeur
Ricoeur's theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures.
The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur's most significant and sustained reflections…
The boundless dreams of childhood are within reach in the enchanting works of Victor Nizovtsev. His subjects invoke the fantastic figures that linger deep in our collective imaginations and his…
Victor Nizovtsev's work encompasses both academic formalism and surrealism. Technically brilliant, it hearkens back to the golden age of children's book illustration. Within the art of Nizovtsev, the infinite possibilities…
