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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
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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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NILS UK Law Review is one of the first student-led national law journals aimed at every level of legal study and practice in the UK. NILS UK Law Review was founded in furtherance of a primary aim of NILS International: to contribute to legal education internationally. NILS International is the world's fastest-growing law students' association, with over 5,000 members in 26 countries across 6 continents. This issue contains the following articles:-...
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How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time...
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The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from Monteverdi...
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Stefan Kisielewski (1911-1991) the dissident Polish writer and composer in his own words - but translated so that English readers can discover for themselves Kisiel's insightful, witty and provocative opinions on Debussy, jazz, Moniuszko, 'musical Marxism' and much else including his own music of course.
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La ciencia es tan generosa que permite ser desarrollada desde diferentes perspectivas y, por ende, ofrece inagotables aplicaciones, desde las especializadas hasta las cotidianas.
Por ello, y pensando en la ciencia como un prisma de múltiples caras, este libro se ideó como un espectro de temas de derecho, internacionalización, estrategias educativas, historia, medio ambiente, nutrición, aplicaciones de química, de matemáticas, de física y de...
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Este libro surge de la preocupación compartida por avanzar en la comprensión de la estructura argumentativa de la obra de Martin Heidegger. En virtud de esta cuestión, se requiere acordar una manera para acceder al nudo problemático de su pensar y avistar formas de emprender un recorrido por su obra. Una obra que parece bifurcarse en diversos caminos y modos de filosofar, pero que entraña un motivo vital y una pregunta permanente.
De este modo,...
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As we contemplate the cosmos and our place in it one question crops up again and again, and has done for centuries: are we alone? So far there is no definitive evidence for an answer one way or the other, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ... or is it?This short essay takes an unconventional approach to this question, while acknowledging that the final answer is still out of reach.
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El nivel evolutivo de la humanidad, exceptuando su desarrollo tecnológico y los hechos puntuales de la extraordinaria creatividad humana, podríamos calificarlo como primitivo.
Las relaciones humanas no han mejorado mucho en miles de años; siguen predominando la violencia para resolver conflictos, la explotación del ser humano, la mentira, el egoísmo, la competición, etc. Las religiones nos hacen temer a Dios, los sistemas de salud se enfocan...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
12) My First Plato
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The series "Meetings with the philosophers" is proposed to present to the lay public the life, thought and the works of the greatest philosophers of all time. The themes are faced with a simple, but rigourous language, basically adapted to anyone. The objective is to provide the reade with the essential cognitive tools to understand the basic features of the works of the author considered as well as the thoughts produces on the authors that they followed...
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Our pets. They are our loyal companions and our faithful friends, a constant source of joy and inspiration. In this endearing anthology of prayers and poems, June Cotner has handpicked choice writings by some of the world's most notable animal lovers to celebrate the playful, the poignant, and the profound ways these wonderful creatures touch our daily lives.
Selections include Emily Dickinson's astute observations of her cat, Roger Caras' thoughts...
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Este libro es un esfuerzo por explicar las decisiones de doce años de gobiernos kirchneristas sin prejuicios ni sesgos ideológicos, tratando de entender la racionalidad de las decisiones, aun cuando fueran contraintuitivas o lisa y llanamente malas desde un punto de vista económico. Los Kirchner no fueron locos ni héroes, pero la grieta intelectual impide entenderlos cabalmente.
Para entender el obrar de Néstor y Cristina es necesario remontarse...
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Un relato histórico que nos asoma a los acontecimientos más relevantes de la historia de la humanidad.
Desde la revolución cognitiva hasta Silicon Valley, este libro ameno condensa en menos de 300 páginas la historia de la humanidad, despertando nuestra curiosidad por nuestro pasado, presente y futuro y haciéndonos reflexionar sobre la unicidad de la especie humana.
Los inicios de nuestra especie, los grandes acontecimientos históricos, las...
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Este libro explora los valores, las prácticas y los imaginarios de hombres y mujeres de sectores medios urbanos que en las últimas décadas se han posicionado como competitivos y ascendentes. Pero, al mismo tiempo, se trata de sectores altamente vulnerables en dos niveles: vulnerabilidad social, en referencia a perder el estatus alcanzado, y vulnerabilidad psicológica, en cuanto son demandados por un "management del yo" y la permanente búsqueda...
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The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively diverse" by O Magazine. This issue introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping contemporary literature and...
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Many years ago a very old woman that happened to be my loving Grand Mother asked me a simple question, 'Son, Is there really a Heaven?, Well, I began with telling myself many stories about her, myself, about the world and even about the mysteries of the universe to understand what heaven would be for a beautiful woman who was my grandmother and what would be that perfect world for all humans and all life on mother Earth. In this book I compile some...
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An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of “Stupid History!”
* A doctor's actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active.
* "Shooting Reported at Firing Range"-The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006
* Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees.-The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 5, 2001
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