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"Daniel Mallory Lavery is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids--from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith. From a thoughtful analysis...
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"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
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Coffee House Press
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2023.
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"This groundbreaking anthology of essays edited by incarcerated writers takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States. Featuring accounts that include gig work as a delivery driver, homelessness among trans youth, and life with immense student loan debt, in addition to transcripts of insightful discussions between the editors, American Precariat demonstrates how various and often invisible extreme...
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"In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. As the self-reinforcing bubbles we live in become more impenetrable,...
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In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literature can transform us for the better.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2023]
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From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside...
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social a...
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"Al Fresco celebrates unfussy, unconventional, easygoing living, showcasing how close-to-nature entertaining and gathering can take shape anywhere outdoors-by the beach, in the mountains, in the city, in the suburbs, in the desert. With a blend of 25 interviews with individuals, couples, and families across a variety of demographics and backgrounds; beautiful photos; visual and reflective essays; poetic ruminations; and recipes, this book is a breath...
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After the events of the 2020 presidential election, a Cuban teacher in Miami identifies signs of the type of society he left behind. Concerned about the conversion of the United States into a totalitarian country, he begins sending email alerts to known people. The mails have become analyses of the evolving situation and a chronicle of the occupation of each field by the radical left. Education becomes indoctrination, news becomes harmful propaganda,...
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A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.
Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
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À l'heure des fake news et de la quantité grandissante d'informations mises à notre disposition, la nécessité de faire preuve d'esprit critique n'a jamais été aussi grande. Mais qu'est-ce que cela signifie, faire preuve d'esprit critique ? Peut-on développer cette faculté et si oui, comment ? Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de proposer une réflexion sur l'esprit critique, ainsi que sa pratique au niveau individuel et sociétal. Un dialogue y...
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The secret life of woods and fields is brought together in The Naturalist's Bedside Book, that delightful collection of BB essays on the seasons of the British countryside.
This book was first published in 1980 and is now redesigned and back in print for a new generation to dip into. As he moves from winter through to spring, summer and autumn, BB covers such topics as:
* fighting starlings and where to site tit boxes
* how to identify old nests in...
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"One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014" Bernard Williams held Chairs of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, Berkeley, and Oxford. He died in 2003.
The first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to...
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Expansión es una palabra que enamora, no es un concepto, es mucho más que un fundamento, es hablar de la misma esencia del Dios Todopoderoso. La Expansión viene de la eternidad, es el diseño del cielo para la tierra.
El Espíritu de la Expansión nace en la mente de Dios, es una manifestación divina que no conoce de límites ni de barreras. La expansión abre brechas y carga un poder de rompimiento sobrenatural que manifiesta multiplicación,...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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From Descartes to designer babies, The Philosophy Gym poses questions about some of history's most important philosophical issues, ranging in difficulty from pretty easy to very challenging. He brings new perspectives to age-old conundrums while also tackling modern-day dilemmas -- some for the first time. Begin your warm up by contemplating whether a pickled sheep can truly be considered art, or dive right in and tackle the existence of God. In this...
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Sommes-nous au seuil d'une éclipse de l'humanisme ? Le choc des civilisations, la mondialisation anarchique, le capitalisme débridé, le fondamentalisme religieux, le dérèglement climatique et la perte de confiance en soi vont-ils faire reculer la civilisation de plusieurs siècles ? Un peu à l'instar de l'Occident au tournant des Ve et VIe siècles après que de vastes mouvements de populations eurent raison de l'empire romain ? Ou encore, à...
19) El lobo racional
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El filósofo inglés Thomas Hobbes (autor de El Leviatán 1651) probablemente se equivocaba cuando escribió la famosa frase «El hombre es un lobo para el hombre» refiriéndose a que el estado natural del hombre lo lleva a una lucha continua contra su prójimo.
Sin duda, era un gran conocedor del hombre, pero no del lobo; en aquella época no existía la rama científica de la etología que estudia el comportamiento de los animales en su medio...
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Après 40 ans d'alarmes scientifiques, l'urgence écologique et climatique n'est plus mise en doute. Elle a été défendue haut et fort par de nombreux acteurs, mais aussi par les foules qui ont marché dans les rues de Bruxelles. Tandis que l'extrême droite et l'extrême gauche se renforcent, de nombreux citoyens s'inquiètent de leurs conditions d'existence, des inégalités croissantes et des migrations. Fin du mois et fin du monde étant intimement...
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