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  • The Trouble with Happiness

    And Other Stories

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Michael Favala Goldman ...
    The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, New York Times).A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Princess Bride

    An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

    by William Goldman, Michael Manomivibul ...
    William Goldman’s thrilling and timeless fantasy classic of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers comes to life in this beautifully illustrated Deluxe Edition. With a gorgeous foil stamped cover, designed endpapers featuring a map of Florin and Guilder, and deckle-edge paper, it's the perfect gift book for fans of the beloved book or the cult classic film.A tale of true love and high ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Disney's Jungle Cruise

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Disney Editions Deluxe
    Like the famed theme park attraction and brand-new feature film that this volume examines, The Making of Disney’s Jungle Cruise takes readers on a unique and fascinating journey. It’s an odyssey through the history and legacy of one of the most original ideas ever to come out of Walt Disney’s fertile mind, first planned for the opening of his revolutionary new theme park in 1955. This book travels ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Play Better Scrabble

    Master the Open Board Method and Score Higher

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Play Better Scrabble is written by National Scrabble Championship winner and the first victor on Channel 4's Countdown, Michael Goldman. The book contains strategies, hints and techniques for all stages of the game as well asinstructional game examples, how to best use the S and the blank, anagrams and useful word lists.Play Better Scrabble will allow anyone to learn the Open Board Method, used by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On Drama

    Boundaries of Genre, Borders of Self

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The latest book by noted critic and scholar Michael Goldman provides fresh and unexpected insights into the role played by genre in the experience of drama. Challenging the view that genre is by definition exclusion, and that its policing of boundaries is out of place in the neighborhood of art, Michael Goldman suggests that the lens of genre can provide keen insights for our understanding and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Hidden Empire of Finance

    How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Hidden Empire of Finance follows the rise of new global cities, tracing their roots back to the 1970s proliferation of neoliberalism and following their fate in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. As India, China, and other nations sought to develop urban infrastructures that could compete with western hubs like New York, Paris, and London, large-scale flows of capital intruded into national ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Global Sex

    by Sine Plambech ...
    Translated by Michael Favala Goldman ...
    'Where there is money, there will be sex.' Sine Plambech has dedicated her life to pursuing the trail of sex and money across the globe. As a young anthropologist, she interviews sex workers from Thailand and Nigeria in her Danish hometown. When she follows the treacherous migrant routes that led them to Europe, she finds families transformed by the money that absent mothers, daughters, wives and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Copenhagen Trilogy

    Childhood; Youth; Dependency

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman ...
    Series series The Copenhagen Trilogy
    A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Small Sovereign

    by Michael Goldman ...
    In Small Sovereign, his second full-length collection, poet Michael Favala Goldman draws on experience as a remodeling carpenter, a jazz musician, a Danish translator, a gardener and a parent, to draw us into greater awareness of life's minute pains and victories from numerous points of view. "We are all sharing atoms, at least/…/like the sea mixes with the sky/words do not keep them apart." The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vision in the Forest

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Vision in the Forest tells the tale of Thorfinn Oakenshield, a young Viking who becomes stranded on the shores of the New World known as Vinland. Come along on his journey into the deep forest as he meets the native forest dwelling people and establishes a settlement in Vinland with his traveling companions. One evening, soon after his arrival in the wild but beautiful new land, he notices that an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Geopolitical Economy of Football

    Where Power Meets Politics and Business

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This book examines the new geopolitical economy of football, exploring the intersection of money, politics, and power in the world’s most popular sport.Against a background of international conflict and the emergence of powerful new state actors in world sport, the book considers how football investments and events have become instruments of soft power and industrial development, and how football ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Continental Perspectives on the Geopolitical Economy of Football

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emerged in different parts of the world.Against a backdrop of international conflict and the rise of powerful new state actors in world sport, the book delves into countries and cases that explore how football investments and events have become instruments ... Read more

    $55.99 USD