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The Land Where the Blues Began – $350

19 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist’s journey into blues country.The Land Where the Blues Began is Lomax’s “singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey” (Kirkus Reviews) across America’s musical heartland. Through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born, Lomax’s “discerning reconstructions…give life to a domain most of us can never know…one that summons us with an oddly familiar sensation of reverence and dread” (The New […]

Categories: Historia, Música • Tags: Alan Lomax, American, blues, Ethnomusicology, Folk, The New Press

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Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth – $235

24 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Matthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without oil—only to stumble before exiting the bathroom (petroleum products play a role in shampoo, shaving cream, deodorant, and contact lenses). When Oil was published in cloth, it was quickly recognized as the wittiest and most accessible guide to the product that drives the U.S. economy and undergirds global conflict. The book sparked reviews and editorials across the country from the Wall Street Journal, the […]

Categories: Actualidad, Earth, Ecología, Energía, Ilustrado • Tags: energetics, Energy, Gasolione, Illustrated, Oil, Petróleo, The New Press

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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World – $325

19 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of essays, John W. Dower—one of our leading historians of postwar Japan and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Embracing Defeat—explores the uses and abuses to which this history has been subjected and, with deliberation and insight, affirms the urgent need for scholars to ask the […]

Categories: Historia • Tags: 2012, Asia, Government, History, Japan, Japón, John Dower, military, politics, The New Press, U.S., WW2, WWII

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LA HERMANDAD DE LA BIBLIA PERRY – $475

25 September, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Una luminaria del humor libre. Nacida como tira de prensa para el periódico The Daily Orange, de la Universidad de Siracusa, La hermandad de la Biblia Perry reúne las entregas semanales realizadas por Nicholas Gurewitch, un trabajo de creciente repercusión que acaba publicándose en numerosas cabeceras como New York Press o The Guardian. La serie alcanza una amplia popularidad en los EE.UU. y Gran Bretaña, lo que le lleva, como punta de lanza de un generoso abanico de premios, […]

Categories: Comics • Tags: Astiberri, Biblia Perry, Nicholas Gurevitch, periódico, The guardian, The New Press, Tiras cómicas

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Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography – $295

20 May, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Renowned photographers and critics address the major controversies in photography today. In recent years, photographic images have been blamed for everything from heroin chic and meaningless politics to women’s distorted body images and the death of Princess Diana. In Over Exposed, a group of distinguished photographers, critics, and cultural historians examine the many roles of photography in contemporary western culture, covering questions about representation, sexual politics, public policy, and cultural activism. Taking up where her widely praised first collection, The […]

Categories: Ensayo, Fotografía • Tags: Carol Squires, Essays, photography, The New Press

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Piano: A Novel – $225

17 May, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Max Delmarc, age 50, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Concourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife. After a brief stay in purgatory—part luxury hotel, part minimum security prison, under the supervision of deceased celebrities—Max is cast […]

Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Francesa, french novel, Jean Echenoz, Novela Francesa, piano, prix Goncourt, The New Press

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The Nazis: A Warning from History – $250

11 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A new edition of the lavishly illustrated companion to the BBC documentary, with rare archival material and photographs documenting the reality of daily life in Nazi Germany. Published in conjunction with the History Channel and the BBC, this prizewinning volume, now back in print, contains previously unpublished material and photographs documenting the reality of life under Nazi rule and the evolution of the ruthless slaughter of millions of people in Germany. BBC producer and renowned historian Laurence Rees has collected the […]

Categories: Guerra, Historia, Represión • Tags: BBC, Guerra, Lawrence Rees, Nazis, Represión, The New Press, Third Reich

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If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean – $275

11 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Brings together fiction from the French- Spanish-, & English-speaking Caribbean, much of it translated here for the first time. The 15 selections deal with basic themes of the region’s literature: the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural & urban life, women’s changing roles in the modern Caribbean, exile, & the diaspora. Works include Jamaican author James Carnegie’s, ”Wages Paid,”; a selection by Guadeloupan novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart; Puerto Rican short stories from Ana Lydia Vega; & fiction from the Dominican Republic, […]

Categories: Antología, Cuentos, Cultura, Ensayo • Tags: Ana Lydia Vega, Barbados, Caribe, Cuba, Diaspora, Dominicana, Exile, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, James Carnegie, Post colonial, Puerto Rico, The New Press

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A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology – $295

11 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A stirring collection of stories, poems, and essays on all aspects of the medical profession, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Children of Crisis” series. A century of unprecedented scientific advances has left the medical profession facing profound ethical and procedural crises, as doctors, nurses, hospice workers, psychiatrists, and others involved in the healing arts struggle to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. A Life in Medicine explores questions […]

Categories: Antología, Ensayo, Medicina • Tags: curación, doctores, enfermeras, Ensayo, healing arts, Medicina, pacientes, Raymond Carver, The New Press, Wenell Berry

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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage – $275

11 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian. Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem; the Pacific Ocean is today six times more abundant with plastic […]

Categories: Ecología • Tags: basura, ecology, garbage, heather Rogers, plastic in the sea, recycle, The New Press, trash

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The Politics of Culture: Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities – $295

13 November, 2011 by rgonzalezr

The Politics of Culture. A collection of key works in the emerging field of cultural policy. The culture wars of the early 1990s obscured broader challenges facing America’s cultural life in the next century. Artists, scholars, and policymakers from many disciplines and across the political spectrum have recognized the need to move beyond debates over government funding for the arts and humanities and toward an array of issues regarding culture’s role in society. What should be the ideology underlying federal arts […]

Categories: Arte, Cultura, Política • Tags: arts funding, culture wars, Gigi Bradford, money for humanities, politica y cultura, politics, Politics of culture, The New Press

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The Land Where the Blues Began – $350

Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth – $235

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World – $325

LA HERMANDAD DE LA BIBLIA PERRY – $475

Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography – $295

Piano: A Novel – $225

The Nazis: A Warning from History – $250

If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean – $275

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology – $295

Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage – $275

The Politics of Culture: Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities – $295

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