A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by John YauThese poems spin tales of traveling in a world both romantic and politicized, a world miniaturized by globalization and haunted by the figure of the cosmopolitan, who is aware of its saturated history, yet inspired by the knowledge that nostalgia is[...]
This is Cosmo's perennial bestseller that is available in a great new gift format - and it's hotter than ever, with 22 sizzling new positions. Each of the 99 positions is illustrated and features precise instructions on mastering the move. The 18 million fun, fearless readers of Cosmopolitan agree o[...]
This is a card deck edition of the popular Cosmo Kama Sutra. It contains 112 cards featuring 99 positions, plus 12 bonus 'lust lessons'. It includes colour illustrations and detailed instructions. Turn up the heat! Cosmo's eternally popular bestseller is now available in a great new format: a gifty [...]
What's in the stars for you, superstar? Cosmos Bedside Astrologer is a personal roadmap for fulfilling your most intimate needs and wants - and the only astrology book that reveals how your Sun, Moon and rising signs work together to form your personality and deepest desires while giving you the roa[...]
Cinema is a fertile ground for the production of cosmopolitan ideals. Films are produced, reviewed and watched worldwide, often circulating between cultural contexts. The book explores cosmopolitanism and its debates through the lens of East Asian cinemas from Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapor[...]
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalize[...]
We are all familiar with human responses to change, but what about the animal's perspective? Globetrotting Tigger, the ginger tomcat with attitude, is born into the sunshine and easy lifestyle of Western Australia, but is forced to follow his family of restless humans to the USA for an adventurous t[...]
With tips on topics ranging from chat-ups to break-ups, this title offers couples some fresh, creative ideas for erotic fun. From slow-burning tingling tantalizers to electric libido lifters, it features sextreme suggestions for the different hot zones you've got, and advice on understanding how his[...]
Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mario de Sa-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess S[...]
This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said's binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European counties on the periphery -- Denmark and Norway -- imported orient[...]
The new "Home" series from Beta-Plus invites you to take a fascinating journey through the most beautiful and inspiring interiors. The thirty volumes in this series are thematically divided by room (living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens and so on), and also by style (including designer homes, country ho[...]
This is a new paperback edition of the first collected volume from the Cairo School of Urban Studies. Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy [...]
A social and political geography of contemporary Cairo, this volume examines vernacular world-making through a 'grounded cosmopolitan' approach that builds new interdisciplinary methods for Middle East studies. Global stereotypes and certain social science agendas have tended to portray Cairo as a c[...]
The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. The commercial films of the period, and in particular[...]