Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism, Paperback - Eugene Thacker

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Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth...

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Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term...

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An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega's best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and...

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Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He ca...

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A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global ineq...

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Essential vocabulary for AQA A-level Spanish, all in one place.

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Bound by a Ring and a Secretby Jennifer Faye A mistaken identity... a proposal that changes everything!

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This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.Illustrations: 21 B/W ...

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Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for--a...

Little Friedrich Muller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But...

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