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  • A Daughter of Singapore
    Thomas W Paradis
    This is the witty and inspirational early-life memoir of Singapore tour guide, Cathy Ross. As a mixed-race child from a Chinese Catholic family, she lived with her paternal grandmother and was bounced around to various extended family members throughout her youth. She further happened to live amidst Singapore’s upheaval from a sleepy, colonial outpost to a bustling, global metr...
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    19,88 €

  • Behind the Ballads
    Thomas W Paradis
    The 2023 premier of Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes introduced global audiences to the songster Lucy Gray Baird and her breathtaking performances. Based on Suzanne Collins’ prequel, the dystopian saga’s fifth film merges two unlikely worlds-namely Appalachia’s distinctive musical traditions with Germany’s postwar reconstruction era. These worlds collide in the ...
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    12,34 €

  • A Place Called District 12
    Thomas W. Paradis
    When creating her post-apocalyptic world of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins drew from various real-world history and geography, particularly from Appalachia, which is reflected in the culture and location of District 12. With the release of her 2019 prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Collins brought readers deeper into Appalachia’s extraordinary cultural d...
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    57,36 €

  • Living the Palio
    Thomas W. Paradis
    A maddening, twice-annual horse race held in Siena’s public square, the Palio is less a sport than it is a game—one that involves a combination of bare-back riding skills, human deal-making, and a large dose of fate. The 90-second race and the rituals that surround it have continued largely uninterrupted since the 1500s, serving as the primary source of identity for the city’s ...
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    13,79 €

  • Theme Town
    Thomas W. Paradis / Thomas WParadis
    This book changes the way we view our everyday human landscapes by taking us on a 22-stop adventure through the heart of Flagstaff, Arizona. In Flagstaff’s America Tour, the reader encounters four distinct though interacting landscape scenes: a themed historic business district, a pre-War multi-ethnic neighborhood, an expanding university campus, and a dynamic automobile commer...
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    18,66 €