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Entre una historia cultural llena de paradojas y cierta noción abstracta de humanidad que aún triunfa en la censura de los sentidos, surgen los ensayos de Juan Carlos Arteaga para remover aquello que parece inapelable. Hay en esta palabra un evidente deseo por enfrentar lo humano sin concesiones y llevarlo hacia un lugar de reflexión que no agota caminos ni banaliza contradicciones. En medio de ese deseo, que revela las inquietudes del autor, entre...
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This book is about domestic violence itself, the causes, effects and solutions. It features the different types of domestic violence and gives detailed explanation on the scenarios which has to do with rape cases, female genital cutting or excision, physical abuse, sex abuse, economic abuse, Psychological abuse, technological abuse, economic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, social abuse, emotional abuse. Domestic violence is a major public...
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Le territoire – parent, amant, esprit, mère, tante – a façonné le corps autochtone. Joshua Whitehead cartographie avec sensualité et joie
la relation entre corps et territoire, bouleversant les idées reçues sur l'identité autochtone, les traumatismes de l'histoire, la santé mentale et la guérison. Voyage intérieur, auto-enracinement, Joshua Whitehead creuse son corps et ses angoisses. Émerge une nouvelle narration o la perte et la souffrance...
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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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Fueled by an insider's view of Indiana and the state's often surprising connections to the larger world, IN Writing is revelatory. It is Indiana in all its glory: sacred and profane, saints and sinners, war and peace, small towns and big cities, art, architecture, poetry and victuals. It's about Hoosier talent and Hoosier genius: the courageous farmer-soldiers who ardently try to win the hearts and minds of 21st century Afghan insurgents, the artisans...
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Get the Summary of Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Helen Macdonald's "Vesper Flights" is a collection of essays that weave together personal memories, reflections on nature, and observations of wildlife. Macdonald's childhood fascination with birds and their nests leads her to explore the concept of home and the interconnectedness of humans and nature. She delves into the history...
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¿Cuál es la historia de los primeros diccionarios en Hispanoamérica y, en particular en Chile? ¿Cómo se relaciona con la construcción de los Estados nacionales a lo largo del siglo XIX? Este libro busca desentrañar esta y otras preguntas leyendo entre definiciones variopintas los discursos ideológicos, históricos y políticos y reflexionando sobre la naturaleza lingüística y normativa de los diccionarios.
La profunda investigación y los...
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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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Published three times per year by Indiana University Press for the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. In issue 111, Transition focuses on "New Narratives of Haiti." Guest...
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This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa-many published here for the first time-delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references as diverse as classical Indian texts, adaptations of Shakespeare and Homer, current events, and world music, film, and dance. Neilesh Bose provides historical...
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Interested in learning Japanese, but find the language difficult to study?You're not alone.Learning Japanese is notoriously difficult, but it doesn't have to be. Imagine being able to learn Japanese by reading 25 short, interesting and concise stories that teach you practical vocabulary. As you continue to read, you will be able to master the intricacies of Japanese grammar and successfully turn Japanese into a manageable, everyday language that you...
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"The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy" presents a captivating array of novels and short stories from the esteemed author, highlighting her iconic tales of adventure, romance, and intrigue. At the forefront of this anthology is "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Orczy's timeless masterpiece that follows the exploits of Sir Percy Blakeney, a dashing English aristocrat who leads a secret double life as the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel. With cunning disguises...
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When the going gets tough, the tough eat ice cream. They also keep their sense of humor because laughter is the best medicine in a world gone mad. In this, his seventh book, nationally syndicated humorist Jerry Zezima writes about family foibles and the funny little things of everyday life. It's the kind of stuff that millions of people can relate to. And it's a welcome respite from all the bad things going on these days. So sit back with "The Good...
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Often treated like night itself-both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized-Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories,...
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"The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer" offers a comprehensive collection of the esteemed poet's literary legacy, comprising 20 books that span his illustrious career. Illustrated to enhance the reader's experience, this anthology showcases Chaucer's mastery of language, storytelling, and poetic form.
At the heart of the collection is "The Canterbury Tales," Chaucer's magnum opus, which follows a diverse group of pilgrims as they journey to the...
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This collection of personal correspondence provides a rare window into the private life of the toweringnineteenth-century philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche was the most iconoclastic philosopher of modern history. He is known to the world as the scathingly brilliant provocateur behind such foundational works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Twilight of the Idols. This was Nietzsche as he addressed himself to the public. But in this...
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Readers can get a thorough understanding of Gothic literature by reading the ebook "Birth of Gothic Literature: Guide to Understanding The Start of Gothic Era Writings," which explores the genre's beginnings and traits.Beginning in the 18th century, the guide delves into the historical and cultural circumstances that gave rise to Gothic literature. It looks at how the rise of Gothic themes in literature was influenced by changes in society, political...
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From the award-winning, multi-genre author and musician Steven Heighton, Songbook brings together Heighton's lyrics and music for the first time in a single volume, including his final songs, which have never been heard or seen until now. When Steven Heighton died suddenly of cancer in 2022, he was in the middle of an intensely creative period of songwriting. He released his first album of original material, The Devil's Share, in 2021 and was preparing...
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Musings on joy and suffering, midlife and meaning, by a National Book Award—nominated poet and essayist praised for his "fine ear" (Publishers Weekly).
Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him on his resulting classical search for meaning in the world and in his particular, quiet life. In essays, fragments, marginalia, images, travel writing,...
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Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and their causes at all levels of Russian society. Not long after the book's publication in 1790, Radishchev was condemned to death for...
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