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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

    14,83 €

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  • Walden (Or Life in the Woods) (Illustrated Edition)

    Or Life in the Woods

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    With 18 Full Color Photos! 'Walden' is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Simplicity ... Read more

    4,70 €

  • 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

    18,33 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning

    A Selection of Writings, 1952–2011

    by Selma James ...
    Series series Common Notions
    In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a ... Read more

    7,83 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    22,14 €

  • 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

    25,11 €

  • 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

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Was 22,89 € Now 20,13 €

  • 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

    10,38 €

  • 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

    19,49 €

  • 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

    9,74 €

  • 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

    20,98 €