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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry(...)
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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry(...)
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Shopkeeping: Stories, advice, and observations
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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it.
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For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it.
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
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The American Dream is at the expense of the American negro
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
The American Dream is at the expense of the American negro
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James Baldwin was one of America’s most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism in American society.
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The invisible collection
The invisible collection
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with(...)
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with(...)
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The invisible collection
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with a unique reminder of the power of art…
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An ostensibly whimsical story about the adventures of a Berlin art dealer, Stefan Zweig’s ''The Invisible Collection'' is a powerful evocation of the condition of Germany between the wars. When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets out for the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy—and is confronted with a unique reminder of the power of art…
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Problèmes de localisation
Problèmes de localisation
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui(...)
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui(...)
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui racontent cette entrée dans un environnement où circulent les corps, les marchandises, les informations et les capitaux. Elise Legal s'y déplace en voiture, en co-voiturage, en train, en bus ou en avion, découvrant ce que ce monde de transaction et de fluidité fait au langage. Elle cherche à comprendre comment il est incarné, échangé et habité dans les voix des pilotes d'avion, des startupers ou du président de la République, dans les textes de loi, les formulaires de demandes de bourses, la parole de ses enseigant·es, dans les textes de théorie critique comme dans la poésie des banquiers.
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En sortant de l'école d'art, Elise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d'absurdités politiques et d'angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers qui en font une fiction. Problèmes de localisation contient sept textes, composés d'analyses critiques, de récits personnels et de poèmes, qui racontent cette entrée dans un environnement où circulent les corps, les marchandises, les informations et les capitaux. Elise Legal s'y déplace en voiture, en co-voiturage, en train, en bus ou en avion, découvrant ce que ce monde de transaction et de fluidité fait au langage. Elle cherche à comprendre comment il est incarné, échangé et habité dans les voix des pilotes d'avion, des startupers ou du président de la République, dans les textes de loi, les formulaires de demandes de bourses, la parole de ses enseigant·es, dans les textes de théorie critique comme dans la poésie des banquiers.
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et(...)
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et(...)
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Conversations avec mes arbres : Journal d'un jardin à travers les saisons
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et leurs mots secrets au tournant des pages..
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Dans ce journal d'un jardin au fil des saisons, la poétesse Anne Rothschild nous dit son enchantement pour la beauté buissonnière, la vie surgissante des fleurs, la douceur des pluies estivales, la bienveillance des arbres, les maraudes de ses chats ou le dialogue des oiseaux.... On y respire la vie, on y savoure les poètes et les textes sacrés qui égrènent leurs vers et leurs mots secrets au tournant des pages..
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels,(...)
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels,(...)
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Canon/Archive: Studies in quantative formalism
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers—as the prelude to new big questions. "Canon/Archive" is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book—just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.
Canon/Archive: Studies in quantative formalism
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers—as the prelude to new big questions. "Canon/Archive" is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book—just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust(...)
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust(...)
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The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
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December 2021
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Orwell's roses
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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October 2021
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Klara and the sun
Klara and the sun
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change(...)
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change(...)
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Klara and the sun
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In ''Klara and the Sun,'' Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In ''Klara and the Sun,'' Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le(...)
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le(...)
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Le motif dans le tapis et onze autres nouvelles
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le tapis » de l'auteur qu'ils admirent. Tantôt, comme dans Entre deux âges ou L'Endroit parfait, surgit un lecteur, un jeune homme ouvert, qui a senti, et compris. Un seul suffit pour la rédemption du vieil écrivain solitaire et isolé. Mais tantôt, comme dans Le Gant de velours, une romancière mondaine et calculatrice se présente comme une admiratrice, alors qu'elle n'a rien compris. Les femmes, d'ailleurs, sont-elles capables de comprendre le « motif » d'un écrivain ? Celles qui écrivent, en tout cas, sont traitées avec une sympathique mais cruelle drôlerie, dans Greville Fane, par exemple, ou dans La Prochaine Fois.
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Les personnages centraux du présent « Minos » sur la vie littéraire, telle que l'a pratiquée et subie Henry James, sont des écrivains subtils et désillusionnés, qui estiment qu'ils ont toutes les responsabilités envers leurs propres oeuvres, mais qu'ils n'en ont aucune envers leurs lecteurs, lesquels doivent se débrouiller tout seuls pour décrypter « le motif dans le tapis » de l'auteur qu'ils admirent. Tantôt, comme dans Entre deux âges ou L'Endroit parfait, surgit un lecteur, un jeune homme ouvert, qui a senti, et compris. Un seul suffit pour la rédemption du vieil écrivain solitaire et isolé. Mais tantôt, comme dans Le Gant de velours, une romancière mondaine et calculatrice se présente comme une admiratrice, alors qu'elle n'a rien compris. Les femmes, d'ailleurs, sont-elles capables de comprendre le « motif » d'un écrivain ? Celles qui écrivent, en tout cas, sont traitées avec une sympathique mais cruelle drôlerie, dans Greville Fane, par exemple, ou dans La Prochaine Fois.
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November 2021
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