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  • Mensajes en una botella

    Un experimento legendario

    Translated by Héctor Piquer Minguijón ...
    Series series Ariel
    Uno de los experimentos científicos que marcó el siglo XIX y que contribuyó a la cartografía del globo.En pleno siglo XIX, el explorador Georg Neumayer tuvo una intuición: los mensajes en las botellas podían ser un instrumento de correspondencia y medición oceanográfica. Así que hizo un experimento y descubrió nuevas conexiones globales. Coleccionó mensajes lanzados por capitanes, funcionarios ... Read more

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  • Lipton's, A Marijuana Journal

    1954-1955

    by Norman Mailer ...
    The final previously unpublished work from two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Award, Norman Mailer.Norman Mailer is one of America's most consequential public intellectuals of the postwar period. He cofounded the Village Voice, and he was the author of twelve novels, among them The Naked and the Dead and Harlot’s Ghost, as well as numerous works of nonfiction. He ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Mystik und Whisky

    Gespräche mit Martina Läubli und Linus Schöpfer

    Jon Fosse ist der Mystiker unter den Schriftstellern. Was liegt hinter den Dingen? Was macht den Menschen im Grunde aus? Solche Fragen treiben den Norweger um, der 1959 im Küstenstädtchen Haugesund geboren wurde. Seine Theaterstücke und Romane entwickeln einen hypnotischen Sog – dies auch, weil die Stille, das Unausgesprochene bei ihm stets ebenso präsent sind wie die Worte. Mit dem Nobelpreis ist ... Read more

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  • Thrilling Cities

    Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond

    by Ian Fleming ...
    A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BONDIan Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, theSunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that ... Read more

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  • The Story Game

    by Shze-Hui Tjoa ...
    "Hypnotic, wise, and thunderously innovative."— T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsA transcendent, profoundly imaginative memoir that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the cost of expectation, and the power of storytelling to shape—and ultimately repair—a life.In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories ... Read more

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  • Las habitaciones de la memoria

    Series series Crítica y estudios literarios
    "Las habitaciones de la memoria" es un delicioso recorrido por la vida y los recuerdos del profesor e hispanista Gabriele Morelli, a quien desde muy joven la pasión por la literatura arrastró a la más honda intimidad de sus letras. El lector podrá seguir a su protagonista hasta el interior de las casas de Vicente Aleixandre o Josefina Manresa (viuda de Miguel Hernández, al que un joven Morelli ... Read more

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  • Going to Seed

    Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work

    An abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as “going to seed.”But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sending out compressed packets filled with the energy needed to sow new life. A pause from flowering gives a chance for the seeds to form.In a time of urgent environmental change, of pressing social ... Read more

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  • All This Thinking

    The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge

    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic movements by looking for radical poetics in the everyday. This collection of letters ... Read more

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  • On the Couch

    Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

    Edited by Andrew Blauner ...
    A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt • Gerald Early • Esther Freud • Rivka Galchen • Adam Gopnik • David Gordon • Siri... ... Read more

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  • Trust Yourself

    by M. J. Ryan ...
    Stop Feeling Overwhelmed by LifeLearn how to stop your worries and self-doubt and start listening to yourself.“Trust Yourself, then your will know how to live”-Goethe. We are living in an age of constant media messages and so-called expert advice telling us to be richer, thinner, smarter, and faster. You do not have to fall victim to what others say. In her warm and inimitable way, international ... Read more

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  • Demasiado tarde para despertar

    ¿Qué nos espera cuando no hay futuro?

    Translated by Damià Alou ...
    Žižek reflexiona sobre los retos del presente: de la guerra deUcrania al ascenso de los populismos.¿Y si diéramos por hecho que el fin del mundo ya no tiene vuelta atrás? ¿Y si hubiera que empezar a pensar a partir de esa asunción?Žižek, el filósofo rockstar, analiza los retos del presente con su agudeza, contundencia y dosis de provocación e ingenio habituales: la guerra de Ucrania y la ... Read more

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  • Ciao Amore, ciao

    Mit 100 neuen und alten Songs durch Italien

    by Eric Pfeil ...
    Italien und die Musik. In keinem anderen Land hat die Musik einen vergleichbaren Stellenwert. Mehr als jede andere Kunst ist sie in der Lage, das Land zu erklären und alle tausendfach gestellten Fragen zu beantworten.Musik ist dauerpräsent. In einem Land, in dem Opernarien gepfiffen werden, überall Denkmäler namhafter Sänger herumstehen und die Einschaltquoten eines fünftägigen Liederwettbewerbs ... Read more

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  • A Summer with Pascal

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud’s popularized Pascal’s wager, an invitation to faith that has ... Read more

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  • Living with Our Dead

    On Loss and Consolation

    Translated by Lisa Appignanesi ...
    A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLERA timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France’s most prominent female rabbi and a leading intellectual.The New York Times describes Delphine Horvilleur as “the rare intellectual to bring religious texts into the public square,” and, as one of only ... Read more

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  • A Black Girl in the Middle

    Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out

    A blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I’m a big, bold woman.”Shenequa Golding doesn’t aim to speak for all Black women. We’re too vast, too vibrant, and too complicated. As an adult, Golding begins to own her boldness ... Read more

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  • The Book Against Death

    by Elias Canetti ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    The Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a “mortal enemy” of death—and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subjectThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, ... Read more

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  • Change Agent

    The Art and Adventure of Relentless Career Innovation

    by Ron Gerevas ...
    Change Agent is more than the story of a man with an incredible life. It is a roadmap for those who want to take their careers to the next level but aren't sure what to do next. Ron shares his life's journey which included implementing new business models in four leading companies that changed them and their industries forever. He also helps readers understand why becoming a change agent can lead ... Read more

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  • Totaal 3

    De vergeten reportages

    Maak nu de serie compleet met Totaal 3, bomvol verloren gewaande reportages die grotendeels nooit in boekvorm zijn verschenenAls iemand zich de afgelopen jaren onvermoeibaar hard heeft gemaakt voor het met uitsterven bedreigde genre van de reportage, dan is het Marcel van Roosmalen wel. Want welke journalist wordt nog in staat gesteld het veld in te trekken, op locatie te werken en terug te komen ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Explorers Dreamers and Thieves

    Latin American Writers in the British Museum

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives.This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms – which saw ten Latin American authors write stories inspired by objects from their countries held by the British Museum – the curatorial team at the Museum ... Read more

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  • Attachments

    Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances

    by Lucas Mann ...
    Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. He looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties, and contradictions within an experience that often goes under-discussed. At once intimate and expansive, Mann chronicles his own life with his young daughter, but also looks outward to the cultural and political baggage that surrounds and ... Read more

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  • Il sindacato nell'Italia che cambia

    Prefazione di Maurizio LandiniUn libro per ripensare il sindacato e riportarlo alle sue origini.Nel secondo dopoguerra il sindacato ha contribuito a migliorare le condizioni dei lavoratori e della società, ma oggi le cose stanno cambiando. Progressivamente relegato dai governi a un ruolo corporativo e subalterno, il sindacato rischia di essere sempre più marginale e ininfluente, nonostante più di ... Read more

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  • 遠三外傳:阿三的三: Gaiden of The Wanderers Ah-3

    Ah-3's Three

    「遠三外傳」:指阿三遠在海外,遊子一枚、人生軼事而已;「阿三的三」:為書中第一篇題目,先將主人公呈上,免得以後大家認錯了人。其次是主角的名字阿三。名字從簡,喩普通與隨常。主人公自己不願花腦細胞在起名上,作者亦然。再次是阿三特點。他自認身正心良;且崇尙智慧,認定智慧須滲透在人生每個角落方可其樂融融,因此鬼點子不少。有一應鐵哥們兒,最實的是本棱。有妻女,增添不少人間瑣事與樂趣。至於作者自己,無非是主人公的代言人而已。●自序/文外●本書大部分文稿來自【阿三在美】專欄。由衷感謝臺灣《人間福報》副刊,幾年前將千字小說專欄【阿三在美】賜予作者,從此有了阿三賴以生存的一畝三分地、得以每兩週展示一次「口糧」。該報以關懷人類福祉為宗旨,對人生對社會盡心盡責,從而嚴管敘事主題,使得文中自有禁忌。如敘述不涉政治、不涉批評、不涉職場、不涉負値因素;內容須堅守善良、堅持原則;當然也須新創、不超字數等。總之 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Strange Attractor Journal Five

    The return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture.After seven years of silence, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns with a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. Covering previously uncharted regions of history, anthropology, art, literature, ... Read more

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  • Mean Boys

    A Personal History

    by Geoffrey Mak ...
    "Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”****-Torrey PetersA ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present.You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys ... Read more

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