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  • A Crooked Line

    The Perils and Rewards of a Life in Freelance Journalism

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    “Here is a writer with a rare gift for appreciation and for reminding us of all we have to celebrate in our fractured world.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known LifeBehind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalismWith a Foreword by Tim CahillA Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place.... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Sense of Place

    Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Politics

    Studies in Compositional Method

    by Michael J Shapiro ...
    Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods and events, the book features a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically attuned historiography. Each investigation treats the way ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Creative Spark

    How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quest for the Golden Honey

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Young bees strike out on their own in a pirate ship in search of treasure.Captain Mark and the rest of the baby bees have the adventure of their lives as they run into a notorious villain bee.Can they get past the villain bee and get the treasure? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bottom of the Ninth

    Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    This account of the expansion of the major leagues is "a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when the sport was under siege in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thinking Outside the Canon

    Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and historiography, Shapiro draws on a variety of disciplinary idioms and texts that span across genres and geographies, ranging from ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Logic of Language

    A Semiotic Study of Speech

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Politics of Historiography

    A Multi-Genre, Trans-Disciplinary Inquiry

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Responding to the question, "What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?", the textual itineraries in the book's chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives—official geopolitical, state-sponsored history—with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through dispossession, to genocide. With a focus ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage

    Second Edition

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog.Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • 15 Minutes: Kim Kardashian

    by Marc Shapiro, Michael Troy ...
    Kim Kardashian's love life has been part and parcel of her rise to the throne of pop culture icon. She definitely knows how to pick men and it is the many loves of Kim Kardashian that TidalWave Comics will explore in "15 Minutes: Kim Kardashian," coming in September. This chronicle of sex tape diva turned world celebrity brand is written by New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Shapiro and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Aesthetics of Equality

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Presuming that the problem of political equality, as it bears on both persons and assemblages, is about being accorded access to the material and symbolic resources needed to manage an effective civic presence, Michael J. Shapiro's critical interventions engage the way aesthetic genres illustrate this problem. Addressing literary, cinematic, photographic, musical, art historical, and architectural ... Read more

    $27.89 USD