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  • The Trouble with Happiness

    And Other Stories

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Michael Favala Goldman ...
    The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, New York Times).A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Making of Disney's Jungle Cruise

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Disney Editions Deluxe
    Like the famed theme park attraction and brand-new feature film that this volume examines, The Making of Disney’s Jungle Cruise takes readers on a unique and fascinating journey. It’s an odyssey through the history and legacy of one of the most original ideas ever to come out of Walt Disney’s fertile mind, first planned for the opening of his revolutionary new theme park in 1955. This book travels ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Play Better Scrabble

    Master the Open Board Method and Score Higher

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Play Better Scrabble is written by National Scrabble Championship winner and the first victor on Channel 4's Countdown, Michael Goldman. The book contains strategies, hints and techniques for all stages of the game as well asinstructional game examples, how to best use the S and the blank, anagrams and useful word lists.Play Better Scrabble will allow anyone to learn the Open Board Method, used by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Princess Bride

    An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

    by William Goldman, Michael Manomivibul ...
    William Goldman’s thrilling and timeless fantasy classic of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers comes to life in this beautifully illustrated Deluxe Edition. With a gorgeous foil stamped cover, designed endpapers featuring a map of Florin and Guilder, and deckle-edge paper, it's the perfect gift book for fans of the beloved book or the cult classic film.A tale of true love and high ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Drama

    Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The latest book by noted critic and scholar Michael Goldman provides fresh and unexpected insights into the role played by genre in the experience of drama. Challenging the view that genre is by definition exclusion, and that its policing of boundaries is out of place in the neighborhood of art, Michael Goldman suggests that the lens of genre can provide keen insights for our understanding and ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Hidden Empire of Finance

    How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Hidden Empire of Finance follows the rise of new global cities, tracing their roots back to the 1970s proliferation of neoliberalism and following their fate in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. As India, China, and other nations sought to develop urban infrastructures that could compete with western hubs like New York, Paris, and London, large-scale flows of capital intruded into national ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Global Sex

    by Sine Plambech ...
    Translated by Michael Favala Goldman ...
    'Where there is money, there will be sex.' Sine Plambech has dedicated her life to pursuing the trail of sex and money across the globe. As a young anthropologist, she interviews sex workers from Thailand and Nigeria in her Danish hometown. When she follows the treacherous migrant routes that led them to Europe, she finds families transformed by the money that absent mothers, daughters, wives and ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Copenhagen Trilogy

    Childhood; Youth; Dependency

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman ...
    Series series The Copenhagen Trilogy
    A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vision in the Forest

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Vision in the Forest tells the tale of Thorfinn Oakenshield, a young Viking who becomes stranded on the shores of the New World known as Vinland. Come along on his journey into the deep forest as he meets the native forest dwelling people and establishes a settlement in Vinland with his traveling companions. One evening, soon after his arrival in the wild but beautiful new land, he notices that an ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Imperial Nature

    The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.Michael Goldman ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Golf's Ultimate Guide to Respectable Cheating

    by Michael Greenburg, Mark Goldman, Ross Greenburg ...
    Golf is difficult enough without allowing the scorecard to ruin a perfectly good afternoon. Golf's Ultimate Guide to Respectable Cheating is an illustrated satirical field guide for recreational golfers who love the game but cannot always live with the reality of their score.Mark Goldman, Ross Greenburg, and Michael Greenburg transform the unofficial habits of friendly golf into a complete comic ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Anarchism. The Classic Collection (10 books). Illustrated

    What Is Property?, God and the State, The Conquest of Bread, No Treason, State Socialism and Anarchism and others

    by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Lysander Spooner, Benjamin R. Tucker ...
    Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states, and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus