Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Paperback - Zena Hitz

Reducere. An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, techn...

Reducere. An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, techno...

Reducere. Winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite AwardA Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksRecipient ...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

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Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States ...

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clie...

Reducere. DescriptionAs gardening columnist for the New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners w...

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.Publisher: The School of Life PressAuthor(s): The School of LifeNumber of pages...

Publisher: Byrom ProjectsAuthor(s): Joy HancoxIllustration(s): charts, diagrams, photographs, 22 in colour, 27 b&wNumber of pages: 288Publication d...

Reducere. With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara GrahamIn this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the cliches and tell the r...

Reducere. Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English langua...

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clie...

Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun.

Publisher: Sounds True IncAuthor(s): Kristen WixtedNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

DescriptionIn 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called...

Reducere. I killed my Kiron.He was my everything and I killed him. He changed our plan too late for me to argue; too late for me to internalize and accept it...

Contributor(s): Author: Brittney C. CooperBeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the ev...

This revolutionary book empowers its readers by exploring enduring, challenging, and timely philosophical issues in new essays written by expert wo...

DescriptionPublished to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography...

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into in...

Reducere. In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Russell MeansAuthor: Bayard JohnsonIllustrator: Russell MeansIn the last months before leaving to join the Ancestors, Russe...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Shaul MagidNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 173 x 242 x 30Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist...

Reducere. "Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . and] how one generation of black women benef...

Reducere. Squirrels in the Wall--a novel told in stories by a collection of interspecies voices--presents a unique and darkly hilarious blend of human and an...

Reducere. Discovering Strength: Hidden In Sight-An Educator's Perspective is a must read for educators, leaders and persons who want to improve their relatio...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire Rydell ArcenasIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dim...

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children's writer, a poet, ...

The first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the "spiritual father" of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextuali...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn kne...

Reducere. The essence of the spirituality of the French mystic, Elisabeth Leseur, was, as she herself put it, to be 'Christian to the core'. Surrounded by an...

At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Krist...

52 overlooked small pleasures, for a life, from 'flirtation' to 'cyprus trees'. Short, enjoyable meditations on small pleasures - one for each week...

Reducere. A young girl's life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chai...

Reducere. ""Deals in a very entertaining way with problems in normal life related to mathematics, luck, coincidence, gambling."" ? The Independent (London)Wh...

Reducere. Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a profe...

With the help of surviving relatives and hundreds of previously unknown family photographs, Derek Niemann uncovers the true story of what his grand...

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DescriptionBusiness leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

Reducere. DescriptionA young girl's life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be b...

Who are we, how did we get here and where are we going?Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): David WilcockNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 20...