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Difference Incorporated eBook Series

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  • Life Support

    Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor

    by Kalindi Vora ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another.In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies have become a new kind of global biocapital. Vora examines how forms of labor serve to support life in ... Read more

    £10.88

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  • Walden & On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Aan essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau) ... Read more

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  • Understanding Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fictionNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. In ... Read more

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  • Sex, Race and Class - The Perspective of Winning

    A Selection of Writings 1952-2011

    by Selma James ...
    This selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of a new political perspective that would set out to redefine traditional views of the class struggle. James' starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, despite working at home and on land, were not seen as 'workers'. For her, the class struggle is the the conflict between the reproduction of the human race and the domination ... Read more

    £6.47

  • Working People in Alberta: A History

    A History

    by Alvin Finkel ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who have toiled in Alberta over the centuries. In so doing, it seeks to counter the view of Alberta as a ... Read more

    £17.18

  • Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

    by Robert Spoo ...
    Series series Modernist Literature and Culture
    The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially the risque parts--without permission. When he reprinted segments of James Joyce's ... Read more

    £16.10

  • TAPS AT REVEILLE - 18 Tales in One Edition

    Enriched edition. The Original 1935 Edition

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Devin Shields ...
    In 'Taps at Reveille - 18 Tales in One Edition' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, readers are taken on a journey through a collection of mesmerizing short stories that embody the essence of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's literary style shines through each tale, showcasing his mastery of language and his ability to capture the turbulent and glamorous society of the 1920s. From tales of love and loss to ... Read more

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  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    by David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

    £14.93

  • Bloody Williamson

    by Paul M. Angle ...
    This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place in which a strange disease has raged for more than eighty years—a disease marked by a pathological ... Read more

    £7.73

  • The Female Complaint

    The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably ... Read more

    £14.39

  • Letters to My Father

    by William Styron ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    “I’ve finally pretty much decided what to write next—a novel based on Nat Turner’s rebellion,” twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated ... Read more

    £6.20

  • Smeltertown

    Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community

    by Monica Perales ...
    Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown — La Esmelda, as its residents called it — was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas.Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish ... Read more

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