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The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most remarkable books ever written. First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. Its subtitle explains much: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of It....
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Introducing "On the Intersection of Zen and Melancholy," the latest addition to a captivating series of poetry ebooks that delve deep into the labyrinth of human emotions. In this succinct yet profound ebook, you'll embark on an emotional journey, navigating through melancholy, heartbreak, joy, love, and Zen. With each poem, you'll find solace in the profound reflections, and vivid imagery and metaphors that resonate with the core of your being.
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A Handful of Stories of Melancholy and Catharsis is a collection of four short stories that revolve around death, grief, and existentialism. These stories contain elements of drama, mystery, and horror. "Dancing in the Rain" is the tale of Anna, a girl with amnesia who has been suffering from reoccurring dreams about a traumatic event. After relocating to a remote farming town, she is confronted by an evil that has followed her from the city. "5:37...
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Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent.
Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional...
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How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought, literature, and film in the...
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Outbreak Company volume 8
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日本語
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Petralka has stumbled into the hikikomori lifestyle, and the only way for Shinichi to bring her back is to dive in head first.
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2012
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"In some ways, Sunny is a female Spenser. Like him, she's a former cop, now a Boston PI, quick with a pistol and a quip...promises to be a series for the ages."* These six novels feature the New York Times bestselling author's first female protagonist—Sunny Randall, "the real deal" (*Publishers Weekly).
Includes:
Family Honor
Perish Twice
Shrink Rap
Melancholy Baby
Blue Screen
Spare Change
Includes:
Family Honor
Perish Twice
Shrink Rap
Melancholy Baby
Blue Screen
Spare Change
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