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  • The Glamshack

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Reluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars, grasping for the divine as he ... Read more

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  • The Glamshack

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Reluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars, grasping for the divine as he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    by Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Discovering History in China

    American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past

    by Paul Cohen ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of ... Read more

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  • Time Stood Still

    My Internment in England: 1914-1918

    by Paul Cohen-Portheim ...
    A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ‘68

    by Chris Bennett, Timo Obergöker, Tenley Bick, Paul Cohen, Giuseppina Mecchia, Chris Reynolds, Valerie Orlando, Alexis Chauchois, Gilles Glacet, Augustus O’Neill ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May ’68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume—based on papers presented the conference Does “la lutte continue”? The Global Afterlife of May ’68 at Florida State University in March 2019—explore the ramifications of that springtime protest in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Spiritual Transmission

    Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path

    by Amir Freimann, Ken Wilber, Mariana Caplan, Peter (Hakim) Young, Stephen Fulder, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Barry Magid, James Swartz, Mooji, Saniel Bonder ...
    The term “spiritual transmission” refers to the passing of the state of enlightenment from teacher to student, which takes place in many spiritual traditions. In itself, the transmission is synonymous with the experience of enlightenment. But the fact that the student’s experience is rooted in a relationship with a human teacher who is perceived to possess absolute knowledge lends the experience ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Mission Afghanistan

    An Army Doctor's Memoir

    by Elie Paul Cohen ...
    Translated by Jessica Levine ...
    Elie Paul Cohen, a Franco-British civilian emergency doctor, was in his youth an anti-militarist who evaded conscription. But decades later, his military record comes back to haunt him when it turns up in his professional dossier. In a surreal coincidence, the French, British, and Israeli secret services suddenly become interested in recruiting him, and Cohen accepts the deal the French Army ... Read more

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  • Testament of Youth

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  • Killer Althusser

    The Banality of Men

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    Translated by Mélissa Bull ...
    On November 16, 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, in a period when she was thinking of leaving him. What do we know about Hélène Legotien today? Almost nothing, except that she was murdered by her illustrious spouse. In a sense, Althusser killed her twice, first, by his own hands and second, by dominating the public space to talk about ... Read more

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  • The City Born Great

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