Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “spring ulmer”
Skip side bar filters

  • Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts

    The Agency of the Extracted

    by Spring Ulmer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. Reminding us that we are all part of an interdependent collective, this book challenges us to act to reverse the extractivist plunder poised to render extinct most of what is presently known as the world.In their work, African ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Bestiality of the Involved

    by Spring Ulmer ...
    What does it mean to want to become a mother, as children around the world die of treatable diseases, are killed by bomb or bullet, are held in cages? In Bestiality of the Involved, Spring Ulmer lives this question out loud, refusing any easy answer. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Postracial America?

    An Interdisciplinary Study

    by Márcia Agustini, Joshua Brewer, Mary Jo McCloskey, Cherise A. Pollard, Whitney Shepard, Éva Tettenborn, Spring Ulmer, James Ziegler ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    The concept of a “postracial” America —the dream of a nation beyond race — has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden the application of this idea by situating it in contexts that demonstrate how the idea of the postracial ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • A Man Without a Country

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA TodayIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Thrown Under the Omnibus

    A Reader

    by P. J. O'Rourke ...
    An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores.From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone's International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O'Rourke has been entertaining and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hard Crowd

    Essays 2000-2020

    by Rachel Kushner ...
    Series series A Must-Read Collection of Essays
    Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco!“The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, VogueFrom a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best American Essays 2017

    Edited by Leslie Jamison ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This anthology edited by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Empathy Exams offers "essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever" ( Publishers Weekly)."The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2019

    Edited by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit."Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2016

    Edited by Jonathan Franzen ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2018

    by Hilton Als ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If..., Volume 1

    (Questions For The Game of Life)

    by Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell ...
    Series Book 1 - If Series
    In an elegant, two-color format, punctuated with intriguing drawings, If . . . poses hundreds of questions ranging from practical to maddening, moral to hilarious.If you could spend one whole night alone with anyone in history, whom would you choose? If you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, which would you like it to be? If you could commit one crime without being ... Read more

    $7.99 USD