Emotions of Protest by James M Jasper
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate Am ...Show more
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer
$46.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The dangerous new realities of reporting on war The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for ''the enemy.'' Americans in combat areas became literal targets of ant ...Show more
Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World by Dale Knickerbocker
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Forging a new canon for international sf Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem: Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established c ...Show more
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty'summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced ...Show more
Essential Tversky by Amos Tversky
$66.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Amos Tversky (1937--1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily productive collaboration with his friend and colleague Daniel Kahn ...Show more
and Processing Acquisition Creating Language: Integrating Evolution by Morten Christiansen, Nick Chater
$56.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment ...Show more
Wellington : Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852 by Rory Muir
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from ove ...Show more
John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age by Annelise K Madsen, Mary Broadway, Richard Ormond
$64.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
This groundbreaking study focuses on John Singer Sargent’s sustained, yet largely overlooked, involvement with Chicago’s vibrant Gilded Age culture. Documenting the artist’s personal connections to the city and the prominence of his work in Chicago collections, Annelise K. Madsen explores Sargent’s vari ...Show more
Bela Bartok by David Cooper
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartók’s international career as an arde ...Show more
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
$34.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: near fine
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? Th ...Show more
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
$67.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought'those that explicate how we in fact think'must be distinguished from logical laws of thought'those that formulat ...Show more
Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals by Mark Edmundson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul. ...Show more
