Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear 9781250851604, 9781250821621, 1250851602

Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death 9780231546294

Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and

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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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Into the woods : how stories work and why we tell them 9781846146442, 1846146445

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Fear and other stories 9780670096435

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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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Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education 9780773566422

Addressing some of the major issues plaguing education, particularly the scandal of illiteracy and the growing mediocrit

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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 the Truth About Loss 9780717183852

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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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