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{"id":6811231879227,"title":"Dog Park","handle":"dog-park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:10-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:46:31-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Anansi International","By (author) Oksanen Sofi","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-10-05","Translated by Witesman Owen F."],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190664048699,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008918","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":494,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487008918","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40190664212539,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008925","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dog Park - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487008925","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22453097889851,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"width":956,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697"},"aspect_ratio":0.671,"height":1425,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8f53501a-014d-43d5-aa43-38f09b14cb03.jpg?v=1659246697","width":956}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Sofi Oksanen, the internationally bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a captivating story about a woman unable to escape the memory of her lost child, the ruthless powers that still haunt her, and the lies that could well end up saving her.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHelsinki, 2016\u003c\/em\u003e. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger sits down beside her. Olenka startles; she would recognize this other woman anywhere. After all, Olenka was the one who ruined her life. And this woman may be about to do the same to Olenka. Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Yet, for a fragile moment, here they are, together — looking at their own children being raised by other people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its post-Soviet independence, \u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis a keenly observed, dark, and propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, centered on a web of exploitation and the commodification of the female body. \u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008925","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487008925\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"international literature;feminism;body politics;eastern europe;human trafficking;mcmafia;estonian literature;contemporary literature;world literature","NumberOfPages":"352","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSofi Oksanen is a world-renowned and internationally bestselling novelist and the winner of numerous literary prizes. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eOksanen was named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an Order of France, and has been compared to Stieg Larsson, Margaret Atwood, and David Cronenberg.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis being published in twenty countries. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSofi Oksanen explores both present-day Finland and post-Communist Ukraine, a lawless time when capitalism was introduced and the black market thrived in central and eastern Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eHELSINKI 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps everything would have gone differently if I had recognized her immediately and known I should flee. But I didn’t; I didn’t even turn my head when the stranger sat down at the end of the bench with a slowness to her movements that suggested an expectation of pain. Hoping she would understand that I wasn’t looking for conversation, I loudly rustled the pages of the book resting in my lap. I wasn’t in this park looking for company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book belonged to the library located just a stone’s throw from the park and its fenced dog run. Carrying a bag bulging with novels made my stops at the park look natural. Whenever anyone happened to ask, I told them how much I liked animals and watching them play but that due to my allergies, I couldn’t keep a pet of my own. The woman sitting next to me also didn’t have a dog, I noticed, but otherwise my attention was focused on the street surrounding the park. Furtively I glanced at my watch, although I knew I was on time. I was afraid I’d come for nothing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman extended her legs out straight and stretched, as people often do when considering how to initiate conversation — a yawn, a straightening of a jacket, or a hand gesture laying the foundation for comments about the weather or other trivialities. However, no question came about my book nor any platitudes about the temperature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScooting to the other end of the bench, I increased my distance from the interloper. Recently I’d begun watching in a new way the other people idling in the park. The retirees and unemployed people strolling here just needed an excuse to get out. Perhaps someday I would be like that, after I no longer had any actual reason for visiting the park or any schedule to my life. Then I too would want my neighbors to hear the bang of my front door as a sign that I was busy and had friends to visit, and then I would come here to be part of the world by watching other people’s lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA white miniature schnauzer approaching the dog park received admiring glances from passersby. My companion on the bench perked up. As she leaned forward slightly, I expected her to finally screw up the courage to say something, maybe about the schnauzer’s photogenic grooming or its exemplary obedience, but the woman remained silent. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSofi Oksanen is a world-renowned and internationally bestselling novelist and the winner of numerous literary prizes. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOksanen was named to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an Order of France, and has been compared to Stieg Larsson, Margaret Atwood, and David Cronenberg.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDog Park \u003c\/em\u003eis being published in twenty countries. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSofi Oksanen explores both present-day Finland and post-Communist Ukraine, a lawless time when capitalism was introduced and the black market thrived in central and eastern Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Following her incredibly popular \u003cem\u003ePurge\u003c\/em\u003e, Sofi Oksanen gives us another propulsive thriller about a woman unable to forget her lost child and the web of lies she’s built around herself. 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Dog Park
A ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market.
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It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. An ode to all-powerful freedom: of the body, of the land, of language, and of the feminine.” — \u003cem \u003eVoir.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Like the places she creates, Audrée Wilhelmy’s literary domain is vast and never ceases to dazzle.” — \u003cem \u003eLettres québécoises\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“By means of a demanding and chiseled prose, eminently poetic, rich in neologisms and in borrowings from native and northern European languages (several can be found in a very convenient ‘Lexicon’), Wilhelmy draws us into a reality that is both familiar and transfigured, where femininity and nature maintain profound and mysterious relationships.” — \u003cem \u003eNuit Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eTHE BODY OF BEASTS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“A bold, tactile tale as vivid as cold sea water, \u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is an attentive study of desire, the senses, nature, and freedom, in which the lines between human and animal are blurred and those between good and bad are obliterated. Whether delving into the hushed violence permeating her characters’ lives or describing the exuberant, heartbreaking beauty of the wilderness, Wilhelmy’s powerful voice is soft but incisive, and Ouriou’s delicately crafted translation does her story every justice. This is a novel that conjures imaginary worlds but speaks to the most acute of realities.” — Catherine Leroux, Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated author of\u003cem \u003e The Party Wall \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem \u003eMadame Victoria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Audrée Wilhelmy built a literary universe unlike anything else that's been created in Quebec at the moment.” — Catherine Leroux, CBC Books\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“A marvel … The style is magnificent, the characters unforgettable: Noé, Mie, and Osip are great literary creations. As with all this author’s books, the sensual is omnipresent, and sometimes troubling. The ending is overwhelming, and the chapter on the skinning of a whale is fantastic. Run to buy this book as soon as it arrives at the store!” — Michel Tremblay, winner of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts \u003c\/em\u003eis a visceral story with wings: rhythmically beating, it both suffocates readers and prepares us to soar.” — \u003cem \u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“\u003cem \u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e is daring and darkly erotic, as emotionally and morally elusive as the characters who roam within it … Wilhelmy’s language is tight yet immersive; there is an underlying melancholy to it, like being alone in a forest with nothing but the sound of rustling leaves. It is rare and delightful to find a novel where language and character move so seamlessly together, hand in hand … A piece of this book will linger.” — \u003cem \u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Sensual and strange.” — \u003cem \u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Uncanny and debaucherous.” — \u003cem \u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“[Wilhelmy] is a meticulous recorder of the dramatic wilderness … Lovely writing.” — \u003cem \u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e “With a miniaturist’s touch, Audrée Wilhelmy creates a singular universe suffused with sap and silence, at once lush to the limit, smothering and amoral … A \u003cem \u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of audacity and sensuality achieved unhesitatingly in full-bodied writing that is precise and without misstep. A brilliant novel that explores from on high an aspect of the human condition too often eluded: our own bestiality.” —\u003cem \u003e Le Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp \u003e“Masterful … Finding beauty in unexpected places, be they natural settings or seldom-explored corners of human behaviour, is something Wilhelmy does as well as any young writer in any language.” — \u003cem \u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eLES SANGS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des lecteurs de l’Hebdo\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix Marie Claire du roman féminin\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Prix France-Québec\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR AUDRÉE WILHELMY AND \u003cem \u003eOSS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist, Governor General’s Literary Award\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLonglist, Prix des libraires du Québec\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAudrée Wilhelmy is a major force in Quebec literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003eis a companion story to Wilhelmy’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring the origins of that book’s central family.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eDark magical realism is a burgeoning and exciting genre for female novelists and writers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAudrée Wilhelmy is a major force in Quebec literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Resin \u003c\/em\u003eis a companion story to Wilhelmy’s last novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Body of the Beasts\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring the origins of that book’s central family.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDark magical realism is a burgeoning and exciting genre for female novelists and writers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is something about Audrée Wilhelmy I cannot find anywhere else. It’s in her style, of course. In her method, certainly. In her inventiveness, no doubt. But it goes beyond all that. With Wilhelmy, it lies in the pact she makes with the reader, as if the singularity of the universe she offers us does not come so much from literature, as from witchcraft. An ode to all-powerful freedom: of the body, of the land, of language, and of the feminine.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoir.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Voir.ca","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] poetic, imaginative tale about the relationship between nature and industry.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Chatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like the places she creates, Audrée Wilhelmy’s literary domain is vast and never ceases to dazzle.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Lettres québécoises\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Nuit Blanche","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"By means of a demanding and chiseled prose, eminently poetic, rich in neologisms and in borrowings from native and northern European languages (several can be found in a very convenient ‘Lexicon’), Wilhelmy draws us into a reality that is both familiar and transfigured, where femininity and nature maintain profound and mysterious relationships.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— \u003cem\u003eNuit Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Chatelaine","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"The lingering power of the story lies with the vivid imagery Wilhelmy conjures … Susan Ouriou’s translation is a marvel of precision and musicality.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Canadian Notes \u0026 Queries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Canadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"White Resin\u003c\/em\u003e is an enchanting, heartbreaking novel.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Miramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"White Resin \u003c\/em\u003erestores a vision of the Canadian wilderness more in line with Indigenous ideas of a mutually dependent relationship between humanity and the natural environment. As a novel for our ecologically riven moment, it’s particularly powerful. As a lyrical, strange, occasionally mysterious story, it is unlike most anything else you’re likely to read in quite a while.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— That Shakespearean Rag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"That Shakespearean Rag","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2021-09-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eAn ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Sign me up! Swearing Is Good for You makes science feel downright celebratory.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMary Norris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Mary Norris","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a ‘twat.’ I had no idea what a twat was – I thought it was just a silly way of saying ‘twit’ – but that smack taught me that some words are more powerful than others and that I had to be careful how I used them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as you’ve no doubt gathered, that experience didn’t exactly cure me of swearing. In fact it probably went some way towards piquing my fascination with profanity. Since then I’ve had a certain pride in my knack for colourful and well-timed swearing: being a woman in a male-dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when I discovered that other scientists have been taking swearing seriously for a long time – and that I’m not the only person who finds judicious profanity useful – I was fucking delighted! I first began to realise there was more to swearing than a bit of banter or blasphemy when I happened to read a study that involved 67 volunteers, a bucket of ice water, a swear word and a stopwatch. I was working in a neuroscience lab at the time and that study changed the course of my research. It set me on a quest to study swearing: why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, I’m definitely not the only person who uses swearing as a way of fitting in at work. Research shows that swearing can help build teams in the work place. From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share the same lexicon of swearing tend to work more effectively together, feel closer, and be more productive than those that don’t. These same studies show that managing stress in the same way that we manage pain – with a fucking good swear – is more effective than any number of team building exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has also helped to develop the field of neuroscience. By providing us with a useful emotional barometer, swearing has been used as a research tool for over 150 years. It has helped us to discover some fascinating things about the structure of the human brain, such as its division into left and right hemispheres, and the role of cerebral structures like the amygdala in the regulation of emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing has taught us a great deal about our minds, too. We know that people who learn a second language often find it less stressful to swear in their adopted tongue, which gives us an idea of the childhood developmental stages at which we learn emotions and taboos. Swearing also makes the heart beat faster, and primes us to think aggressive thoughts while, paradoxically, making us less likely to be physically violent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd swearing is a surprisingly flexible part of our linguistic repertoire. It re-invents itself from generation to generation as taboos shift. Profanity has even become part of the way we express positive feelings – we know that football fans use ‘fuck’ just as frequently when they’re happy as when they are angry or frustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat last finding is one of my own. With colleagues at City University, London, I’ve studied thousands of football fans and their bad language during big games. It’s no great surprise that football fans swear, and that they are particularly fond of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit.’ But we noticed something interesting about the ratio between these two swearwords. The ‘fuck-shit’ ratio is a reliable indicator of which team has scored because, it turns out that ‘shit’ is almost universally negative while ‘fuck’ can be a sign of something good or bad. Swearing amongst football fans also isn’t anywhere near as aggressive as you might think; fans on Twitter almost never swear about their opponents and reserve their outbursts for players on their own team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwearing is one of those things that comes so naturally, and seems so frivolous, that you might be surprised by the number of scientists who are studying it. But neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists and historians have long taken an interest in bad language, and for good reason. Although swearing might seem frivolous it teaches us a lot about how our brains, our minds and even our societies work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won’t just look at swearing in isolation. One of the things that makes swearing so fucking amazing is the sheer breadth of connections it has with our lives. Throughout this book I’ll cover many different topics, some of which may seem like digressions. There are plenty of pages that contain no profanity whatsoever but, from the indirectness of Japanese speech patterns to the unintended consequences of potty training chimpanzees, everything relates back to the way that we use bad language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this book simply an attempt to justify rudeness and aggression? Not at all. I certainly wouldn’t want profanities to become commonplace: swearing needs to maintain its emotional impact in order to work. We only need to look at the way that swearing has changed over the last 100 years to see that, as some swearwords become mild and ineffectual through over-use or shifting cultural values, we reach for other taboos to fill the gap. Where blasphemy was once the true obscenity, the modern unsayables include racist and sexist terms as swearwords. Depending on your point of view this is either a lamentable shift towards political correctness or timely recognition that bigotry is ugly and damaging.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\"Lively . . . In exploring the universe of swearing, [Byrne] has lined up some nifty stories.\"","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“[Swearing] deserves a closer, clinical look. 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Swearing Is Good For You
In the vein of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a fascinating and fun look at the new science of bad language.
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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Named a Book of the Year by both the Guardian and Chapters/Indigo, In the Orchard, the Swallows is a moving story of lost love in war-torn Pakistan.
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Tight dialogue and a protagonist who becomes a symbol of hope for a better world.\" — \u003cem\u003eLa Repubblica\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Gripping … an agonizing childhood in the Iran of the ayatollahs, with its revolutionary committees and moral police always lurking.\" — \u003cem\u003eStavanger Aftenblad\u003c\/em\u003e (Norway)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eI Hid My Voice\u003c\/em\u003e] is a new literary sensation. A child’s untold words become a scream against heartlessness and indifference.\" — \u003cem\u003ePanorama\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"A voice as a metaphor for a country, Iran, where censorship rules.\" — \u003cem\u003eLa Gazzetta di Mantova\u003c\/em\u003e (Italy)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"Saniee skillfully integrates concepts and theories about the psychology of the child and demonstrates how easy it is to cause, as parents, irremediable damages to a child, but also how easy it is not to cause them…. Shahaab is not only a child who confronts a difficulty, his muteness is in fact that of a nation terrorized by a harsh regime…\" — \u003cem\u003eThe Cultural Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\"I would recommend this book to any parent as a compulsory reading, especially to those who have more than one child. I would recommend it to a father so he can better understand what happens in the soul of his child … The novel reveals two voices: Shahab and his mother; they bring to light the pain of the sensible and imaginative child, the pain of a mother who feels the truth and struggles with an absent father whose only desire is to work.\" — \u003cem\u003eSunday Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Saniee skillfully integrates concepts and theories about the psychology of the child and demonstrates how easy it is to cause, as parents, irremediable damages to a child, but also how easy it is not to cause them…. 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I would recommend it to a father so he can better understand what happens in the soul of his child … The novel reveals two voices: Shahab and his mother; they bring to light the pain of the sensible and imaginative child, the pain of a mother who feels the truth and struggles with an absent father whose only desire is to work.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Sunday Journal","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2016-08-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events."}
I Hid My Voice
The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.
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Hack Attack
The definitive, inside story about the behind-the-scenes phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World and News International.
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{"id":6582726918203,"title":"Congotronic special hardcover edition","handle":"congotronic-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","Anansi International","By (author) Book Shane","pub date: 2014-09-27"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403414880315,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Congotronic special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770899025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324463923259,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"width":2400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","width":2400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congotronic special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.
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The Book of Fate
Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
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The Acacia Gardens
The seventh in the ten-book "Soifs" novel cycle. In The Acacia Gardens, memorable characters are confronted by an evil that lives among them and that has taken root.
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The Lost Words
A beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world.
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More than a mere book, it’s a brave act of shamanism that touches and transforms the reader’s heart, healing and encouraging at a time when the world feels most desperately in need of restoration.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSteve Silberman, author of \u003cem\u003eNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/em\u003e has been a massive success and has sold over 36,000 copies in North America. It is an international bestseller, was a finalist for the Wainwright Prize and winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, and has inspired grassroots re-wilding movements and crowd-funded giveaways of the book. \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e, the earlier book’s kindred spirit, will no doubt have a similar impact and reach new audiences.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeously designed, fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind book that would make the perfect gift book for the holidays. Jackie Morris’ artwork brings to life the poems’ nature themes and would stand out even without the accompanying evocative poems. This is a book designed to be carried around by readers and read outdoors in nature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Macfarlane is a major literary and cultural figure in the U.K. His writings on environmental topics are frequently featured in the Guardian and Granta. He is a regular presence on television and hosted an adaptation of his book The Wild Places on BBC’s The Natural World. His most recent book, Underland, won the Wainwright Prize and was named one of the best books of the twenty-first century by the Guardian.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to those worried about the vanishing natural world, a larger-than-ever group thanks to new studies and articles on biodiversity loss. Both Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have been involved in the Extinction Rebellion environmental movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis book is perfect for adults interested in the “re-enchantment movement” or those who just want to rediscover nature, and children newly interested in plants and animals will be captivated by the beautiful hand-painted illustrations and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant … There is enough magic here to summon wild things even for those who are snug indoors.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"This unusually beautiful book brings to readers the magic and wonder of nature … Breathtakingly magical.\" —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Kirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEWS","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Macfarlane’s lyrics … ring with consonance (“Thrift thrives where most life fails, falls,\/ is cast adrift”) and wordplay (“Woodpecker, tree-wrecker”) … Morris’s fluid artwork renders the elegant tilt of a fox’s snout, birds’ calligraphic flight patterns, and the eyelike whorls of silver birch bark … One to treasure.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Through deeply humane poems paired with warm illustrations, MacFarlane and Morris invited readers into the space where the enchanting natural world meets the expansive imagination . . . Crafted with the same tenderness as its sibling.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Shelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Maria Popova, Brain Pickings","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness … These painted verses sing and shimmer with a magical exuberance that renders the wild world not parallel, not foreign, but proximate, beckoning, native to our own souls … A charm against the curse of civilization, of exploitation, of apathy.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMaria Popova, \u003cem\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“An enchanting diversion into the wonder and magic of nature.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBulletin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","ProductFormDescription":"Lossless Format Audio, WAV","PublicationDate":"2020-10-27","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The Lost Works","ShortDescription":"The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.","Width":"4.76","WidthCode":"in"}
The Lost Spells
The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
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The Two Roberts
An intoxicating, brave, and compassionate novel reimagining one of the most passionate love stories of modern British art.
