Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear 9781250851604, 9781250821621

What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy 9781501754685, 9781501754708, 9781501754692

Taussig's frank assessment of the state of the US workforce and its dreams allows him to truly and meaningfully ask

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Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It 9781785787942, 9781785787935

** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 ** 'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a

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Polyamory, Monogamy, and American Dreams: The Stories We Tell about Poly Lives and the Cultural Production of Inequality 1138895032, 9781138895034

This book introduces "the poly gaze" as a cultural tool to examine how representations of polyamory and poly l

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The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation 9781442680210

As a kind of 'poetics' of everyday life, the author inquires into the narrative dimensions of our self-creatio

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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat 9780226473734, 0226473732

An “entertaining and enlightening” history of the scares, scams, and pseudoscience that have made food a source of anxie

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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories 9780826452092, 9780826480378, 9781441116512, 0826452094

Booker proposes an entirely new thesis about the nature of storytelling. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Jaws, Booker show

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Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say 9780399588389, 9780399588372

A powerful book about the phrases we can't live without from the New York Times bestselling author of Glitter and G

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Tell Me the Truth About Loss 9780717183852

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Fear and Other Stories 9780814349298, 9780814349274, 9780814349281

Fear and Other Stories is a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860-193

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Not Even Past: The stories we keep telling about the civil war 9781421436661, 9781421436654, 1421436655, 1421436663

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