Na Na: 250 books

Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...

The reign of the King who now so happily and so gloriously rules over France will one day exercise the talent of the most skilful historians. But these men of genius, deprived of the advantage of seeing the great monarch whose portrait they fain would draw, will search everywhere among the souvenirs...

War on Error brings together the stories of twelve young people, all vastly different but all American, and all Muslim. Their approaches to religion couldn’t be more diverse: from a rapper of Korean and Egyptian descent to a bisexual Sudanese American to a converted white woman from Colorado living...

Extrait : "Et le pied nerveux, cambré, sillonné de veines richement gonflées de Gunstan, s'appuya fortement sur le col soyeux d'une belle mouette que ce petit pied de maître clouait au rocher. C'était sur la nappe rocheuse, qui était comme le pittoresque vestibule du vieux manoir de Kerpeulvan,...

This book uses data from a multitude of countries to explain how and why hedge fund markets differ around the world. The authors consider international differences in hedge fund regulation which include, but are not limited to, minimum capitalization requirements, restrictions on the location of key...

How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change.

Kicked out by his family and wandering the streets, an unemployed 34-year-old shut-in thinks he’s hit rock-bottom--just as he’s hit and killed by a speeding truck! Awakening to find himself reborn as an infant in a world of swords and sorcery, but with the memories of his first life intact, Rudeus...

Rudeus is shipped off to Roa, the largest city in the region, to tutor the young daughter of a noble family. Unfortunately, what he thought would be an easy job proves the exact opposite once he meets his student, Eris--a fierce-tempered hurricane who blows Rudy’s optimistic expectations to bits!...

Graduation from high school? A senior thesis? A betrayal by someone you love? A loss of innocence? The death of a parent? Losing the family you always wished you had? Facing a harsh reality? What's the line that separates childhood from the "real world"?...

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list INTRODUCTION. I. Mesopotamia.—The Mounds.—The First Searchers § 1. Complete destruction of Nineveh.—§§ 2-4. Xenophon...

A collection of 10 unforgettable stories, Waterness captures the spalshing colours of life in Punjai, in the heart of Thanjavur district. Set against a broader perspective of modern urban life and the piercing pressures of alienation, these stories are about memories, and memory itself.

Clify has grown old. Confined to the front porch of the little blue house, he spends his remaining days watching. Watching and observing. He watches as the years slip by for his granddaughter, filling lonely days with a curious obsession for stones. The old man worries about his precious girl....

Follow Bear as he visits animal habitats around the world—and comes to appreciate his own home—in this new offering from the creator of A Book of Sleep and A Book of Babies. Bear is tired of waking up every morning in the same green forest, so he decides to search for a new place to live....

The world is changing for two girls in China in the 1970s. Da Qin—Big Piano—and her younger sister, Xiao Qin—Little Piano—live in the city of Wuhan with their parents. For decades, China's government had kept the country separated from the rest of the world. When their country's leader, Chairman...