Reducere. "Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themse...
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Reducere. In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest...
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Reducere. In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising o...
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Reducere. Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received-for 1967's I Call First, later renamed Who's That Knocking at M...
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Reducere. DescriptionThere is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his d...
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Reducere. Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by Martin Heid...
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Reducere. The conductor--tuxedoed, imposingly poised above an orchestra, baton waving dramatically--is a familiar figure even for those who never set foot in...
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Reducere. Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In t...
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Reducere. Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil right...
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Reducere. We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded in...
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Reducere. Dorothy Herrmann's powerful biography of Helen Keller tells the whole story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her t...
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Reducere. This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory, " the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle'...
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Reducere. Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the directi...
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Reducere. In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, ...
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Reducere. In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their ...
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