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When yoga studios are ubiquitous and meditation apps are on millions of smart phones, once exotic terms like karma, zen, and nirvana have entered into everyday English, business consultants have appropriated the meditation terms "mindfulness" and "equanimity," and Buddha statues and Shinto shrines are common in American yards, we forget that things weren't always this way, and that what is now considered cliche was once unknown. So how did the spirituality...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
Publié à la fois en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis, Le Carnet d'or (The Golden Book, 1962) est l'œuvre la plus connue de Doris Lessing (1919-2013). Ce roman a influencé des générations de lectrices et de lecteurs qui y ont vu, pour la première fois, la représentation honnête et...
143) Dear Reader
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Letters to Strangers that Feel Like Letters to You - this moving non-fiction book contains handwritten-style letters to unknown readers. An intimate, analog reading experience ideal for the digital age. Rediscover the lost art of letter writing with "Dear Reader" - a heartwarming book of letters penned just for you.Features 50+ letters on inspiring topics to uplift your spiritsWhimsical design with handwritten font feels like receiving real mailThoughtful...
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Embark on a captivating intellectual odyssey as you delve into the profound depths of John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government." Penned in 1689 during a tumultuous era, this magnum opus boldly challenges prevailing notions of political authority, unveiling a revolutionary blueprint for modern governance.
In a riveting narrative spanning 4000 characters, Locke beckons readers to question the very foundations of power. The treatise is a symphony...
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���� Introducing "Daddy Takes Us, Pheasant Hunting" - A Heartwarming Adventure for the Whole Family! ����
Are you ready for an unforgettable family adventure that's filled with love, laughter, and a whole lot of feathers? Join us on a delightful journey with "Daddy Takes Us, Pheasant Hunting," a heartwarming kids' book that will capture the hearts of young and old alike.
���� About the Story: In this enchanting tale, we follow...
147) Toddler's World
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Welcome to "Toddler's World: A Short Stories Book," a delightful collection crafted especially for the littlest readers and their curious minds. In the enchanting pages of this e-book, young minds will embark on a journey filled with wonder, imagination, and the joyous exploration of the world around them.
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An illuminating exploration of fin de siècle decadence "by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis" (Pre-Raphaelite Studies).
The influential writer and scholar Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable,...
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This lighthearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family, their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of literature who can explore this unique area of Yorkshire and walk in the footsteps of those who knew and loved this town and its moorlands two hundred years ago. With guided tours around special buildings...
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Imágenes de la peste, huelgas y marchas de obreros, desapariciones, siluetas de El Familiar y los Uturuncos, barricadas en la ciudad, forajidos y rebeldes convertidos en santos populares, detenciones en la noche, terror y olvido. Representaciones que atraviesan la memoria y la novelística sobre Tucumán al tensar y fragmentar los relatos.
Frente al lugar común que concibe al noroeste argentino como zona literaria donde la novela no es un género...
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Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition...
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"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books Collection: A Magical Quartet"
With the classic Fairy Books collection by Andrew Lang, take a fantastical trip through the fascinating worlds of folklore. The first four volumes in this fascinating anthology-The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, and The Violet Fairy Book-are an absolute gold mine of magic and wonder.
Lang weaves together myths and legends that have fascinated readers...
153) Sexistence
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Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence.
Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation...
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The Romantics lived through a turn of the century that, like our own, seemed to mark an end to history as it had long been understood. They faced accelerated change, including unprecedented state power, armies capable of mass destruction, a polyglot imperial system, and a market economy driven by speculation. In Romanticism at the End of History, Jerome Christensen challenges the prevailing belief that the Romantics were reluctant to respond to social...
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Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced between Russia and Europe as well as a socialist past, a capitalist and liberal present, and an illiberal regime rising in the Russian Federation. Kevin M. F. Platt describes how members of this population...
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Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that...
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The young, ambitious employees at radio station KLUV have a common belief that life is worth living. They are constantly inspired and challenged by the principles of honesty and love which they feel are at the pinnacle of the meaning of life. They believe that these two truths used in harmony can make life very enjoyable and ultimately worth the effort.In this collection of confessional and explorative essays, nine of them have pieced together a vast...
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Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies....
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Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures-whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West. Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the...
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The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693—1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett.
Also, one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition...
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