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"In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life.."--Amazon.
Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began writing a book she thought would be about divorce, heavy on the dark humor. After all, she and her future ex had chosen to still live together in the...
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
As Les Murray has written, Rod's poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro...
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La artista de performance Marina Abramovic, ha pasado toda su vida derribando barreras, dolor, resistencia, miedo, en una exhaustiva búsqueda de transformación emocional y espiritual tanto en la vida como en el arte. En estas extraordinarias memorias relata su conmovedora y épica historia, desde su difícil y abusiva infancia en la Yugoslavia de la posguerra, pasando por la convulsa relación artística y amorosa con el fotógrafo y artista Ulay,...
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"What makes shit such a universal joke is that it's an unmistakable reminder of our duality, of our soiled nature and of our will to glory. It is the ultimate lèse-majesté".
John Berger's essay begins by describing the experience of burying a year's worth of his household's excrement. What follows is an extended reflection-at once philosophically detached and profoundly engaged with the inescapable stuff of life-on shit as an emblem of what it means...
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« Médecin de famille » L'expression en dit beaucoup plus qu'on ne l'imagine. Cette figure est chargée de symboles, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'émotions intenses et d'expériences de vie marquantes. Elle véhicule son poids d'histoire et de réalité contemporaine. Et, parce que l'expression est riche, il est difficile d'en faire le tour en quelques mots ou quelques pages.
Marc Zaffran raconte ici comment la médecine générale est devenue,...
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Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than thirty original pieces, bringing together Tribal leaders, artists, scientists, activists, scholars, legal experts, and humorists. A group of French scholars offers surprising perspectives on Deloria's...
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Stories Inside the Book . . .Our Little "Retarded" ChihuahuaBilly Bacon A Love StoryProfessor Polly the ParrotThe Taming of Mad Monkey BenjaminGoofy Goofus our Funny FerretLittle Naked BirdieOur Miniature Doberman Sassy An Ambassador of Love-Bonus Stories-Sold Our Home on the R-A-D-I-ONot by Sight3 Angels 3 Encounters 3 BlessingsThe Thing Behind the CurtainGod Spoke, and I Looked in the Bushes!Bankrupt . . . but Blessed!
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An essay collection that demonstrates how emotional ties and intimate affiliations remain critical to the dimensions of modern Christianity.
Scholars of religion have come a long way since William James famously made of religion a matter between man and his maker. For decades now, they have been attentive to the ways in which religion takes shape as the product of broad social forces, focusing on the dynamics of power and culture as heuristics for...
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From the author of funny classics like "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes" and "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody." Here in "How to Be a Hermit" are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the natural world, and just about anything else that proved...
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This is an inspiring book about the joys of gardening and some of the insights gained from musing in the garden. Born during the peak months of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is also a devotional book with brief reflections. The plant parent and the lovers of the everyday garden of life will find this an encouragement and a valuable gift for any occasion. The lilies and the entire creation speak of the majesty and faithfulness of God. Listen to Jesus...
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"Anyone with even the vaguest interest in food (or other people's houses generally) should order Carrie Solomon and Adrian Moore's newly released Chefs' Fridges."-British Vogue
"If you've ever wondered what your favorite chef eats at home, now's your chance to find out. Chefs' Fridges hops all over the continents of North America and Europe, peeking inside the home fridges of Nancy Silverton, Hugh Acheson, Enrique Olvera, José Andrés, Jessica...
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A hilarious series of culinary adventures from GQ's award-winning food critic, ranging from flunking out of the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon to dining and whining with Sharon Stone.
Alan Richman has dined in more unlikely locations and devoured more tasting menus than any other restaurant critic alive. He has reviewed restaurants in almost every Communist country (China, Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany) and has recklessly indulged his enduring passion...
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New York Times Bestseller (Humor)
"The book everyone is laughing about!"--Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe
From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as "told" by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.
What do the Clintons, Republicans, fellow Democrats, and Obama's own family really think of President Barack Obama? Finally, the truth is revealed in this raucously funny "oral history" parody.
There...
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The effects of COVID and COVID management have had serious and far reaching long term effects. This book is a set of short stories exploring COVID and COVID management particularly in Ireland and worldwide."The essays and thoughts, reflections, observations are superb!"Lissa Oliver Best Selling Author and Journalist "I am in agreement with you on possibly every point. I am not even sure there are any points I would disagree with! Your sincerity and...
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"Hot grease, sharp knives, infidelity, and white truffles….The Hunger has all the right ingredients….The best memoir by a chef since Kitchen Confidential."
-Jay McInerney
The Hunger is the page-turning memoir from John DeLucie, chef of THE celebrity hot spot restaurant in New York City, The Waverly Inn. With an introduction by Graydon Carter, legendary Editor of Vanity Fair, The Hunger is an unabashed celebration of hard work and the good...
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Les révolutions sont les visages des peuples.
Au Portugal, la révolution des Œillets, le 25 avril
1974, transforma ce pays sans rompre avec son héritage. Le Portugal des œillets est celui du fado, une complainte attachante d'un cœur que l'amour de la patrie déchire.
Façade de l'Europe, le Portugal donna à ce continent ses lettres de grandeur lorsque ses navigateurs partirent à la découverte du monde.
Les relations étroites avec...
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At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage-a...
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"Kelly Oxford has this unbelievable ability to tell stories in that way that makes you laugh without ever shoving jokes in your face. This book is basically an announcement that she's one of the best humor writers working today." - Justin Halpern, author of Sh*t My Dad Says
"Kelly Oxford is like your cool babysitter who teaches you about sex and sarcasm in an un-creepy way. Hanging out with her book makes you wish your parents were always out to...
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