Reducere. Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British p...
Reducere. In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home repu...
minotaur books, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, crime & mystery fiction
Reducere. When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 w...
Reducere. 1. As Seen From Above 4: 40 2. In Praise Of Dreams 5: 21 3. One Goes There Alone 5: 06 4. Knot Of Place And Time 6: 22 5. If You Go Far Enough 0: 3...
Reducere. Across national and cultural borders, the archetype of the fool has played a significant role in how communities interpret and ascribe identity. As...
baylor university press, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics
Reducere. Side A 1. As Seen From Above (4: 42) 2. In Praise Of Dreams (5: 21) 3. One Goes There Alone (5: 06) 4. Knot Of Place And Time (6: 22) 5. If You Go ...
Reducere. DescriptionWitness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Aug coined the term "non-place" to describe the ubiquitous airp...
Reducere. "The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human conditio...
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Reducere. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, ...
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Reducere. With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, littl...
Reducere. Winner of the Wandering Aengus Press Book Award, Tarn Wilson's memoir in essays In Praise of Inadequate Gifts explores the varied ways we process t...
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Reducere. The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of r...
Reducere. When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so muc...
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Reducere. Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection...
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Reducere. Human life is filled with predicaments. In these eight stories, Theodore Dalrymple examines how people struggle with everyday conflicts and frustra...
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Reducere. Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes...
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Reducere. We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution sh...
Reducere. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different school...
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Reducere. An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and rediscovered the joys of traveling by f...