Reducere. From personal loss to phantom diseases, "The Empathy Exams" is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize"A "Pu...
Reducere. A true essay is "something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author's personal experience and sub...
Reducere. "Marriage is not a vending machine, and love is not two quarters to put into it. It's a manner of life, not an exchange of commodities. So what doe...
Reducere. Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written wit...
Reducere. Winner of the 2018 Dzanc Nonfiction Prize "Knock Wood is an absolute wonder, and Jennifer Militello is at the top of her form." --Andre Dubus III, ...
Reducere. Welcome to the first in a series of books that showcases writings from Zygote Quarterly magazine. The Science of Seeing collects firsthand reports ...
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Reducere. "Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to l...
Reducere. DescriptionDedicated to giving prospective students the edge they need to distinguish themselves among tens of thousands of peers, this guidebook d...
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Reducere. Dark, deviant, and deliriously funny, Jude Angelini writes in the colloquial vein of Charles Bukowski, using his unique, natural voice to tell stor...
Reducere. DescriptionOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Ol...
Reducere. These translations of Kitaro Nishida's philosophy of nothingness and the intelligible world are accompanied with a scholarly introduction that expl...
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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
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Reducere. A collection of five inspiring essays by three closely linked mystical thinkers of the seventeenth century--François Fénelon, Madame Jeanne Guyon, ...
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Reducere. "There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." -- George Steiner Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renow...
Reducere. "Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book. ...
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Reducere. Social justice is an ideal. It's not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often pu...
Reducere. In this collection of essays, some of which appear here in English for the first time, F. A. Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian sc...
Reducere. Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his chi...
Reducere. Escribo porque hay alguna mentira que quiero desvelar, alg n hecho sobre el que quiero llamar la atenci n (...). Pero no podr a escribir un libro, ...
Reducere. 'Virtue signaling' is the phrase that got popular on social media during the 2016 election as a way of derogating political opponents. But what is ...
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Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brian PhillipsOne of Buzzfeed's Best Books of Fall 2018 and named one of the Best Books of October by TIME, The Millions, a...
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Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He's taken sf to places it...
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Reducere. "A timely and thoughtful discussion about the intersection of gender and White privilege." -Kirkus ReviewsUsing the lens of inherited trauma and fa...
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Reducere. A provocative collection of narrative essays with a unique point of view. In this book a first generation American New Yorker uses her bold voice t...
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Reducere. "It would take a scholar with a formidable intellect to be able to significantly refine the work of K z Uno, the brilliant Japanese economist who h...
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Reducere. The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo -- contemporary Ame...
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Reducere. From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the...
Reducere. 'When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Hilton AlsEditor: Robert AtwanThe Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hun...
Reducere. This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and K...
Reducere. "You were never meant to remain ignorant to the presence of God, nor to the energy within you that is God. You were never meant to experience strug...
Reducere. Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essa...
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Reducere. Why can we not learn a damn thing from the likes of Semco, or Toyota?Why are today s companies out of balance, structure-wise?Why are "flat hierarc...
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Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and f...
Reducere. "I had a real romance with this book." --Miranda JulyA highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good...r...
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Reducere. Jed McKenna is the author of The Enlightenment Trilogy (Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, and Spir...