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Pub. Date
2023.
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A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society, in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them, from the acclaimed author of Mean, and one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
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"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity-thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on...
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Miradas Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023
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494 pages : 23 cm
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Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática. La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones candentes como... ¿Por qué la gente cuenta...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2023].
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x, 306 pages ; 22 cm
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"Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir....Zero at the Bone begins with Wiman's preoccupation with despair,...
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Crónicas Anagrama volume 126
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
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812 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
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"Este volumen reúne la obra periodística de Mariana Enriquez. Propulsada por su potente estilo, escribe sobre algunos de sus ídolos y fetiches en ámbitos como la literatura y la música, además de abordar también aspectos de su propia vida. Encontramos en estas páginas desde una entrevista delirante con el legendario Charly García hasta un texto sobre la fijación de los viandantes bonaerenses con el escote de la autora. Agudas piezas personales...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxv, 286 pages ; 24 cm
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"Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s...
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En el mundo de lo social, es imprescindible la creación de nuevos proyectos, enfocados a mejorar el bienestar y la calidad de vida de las personas.Ante la actual crisis económica que estamos atravesando, donde, se hace latente una de sus consecuencias más claras y devastadoras, como es la falta o ausencia de empleo, nace, a modo de ejemplo, esta presentación de proyectos, con el objetivo de inspirar y animar a los profesionales de lo social a...
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Nórdica Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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"Un itinerario de libros, una cartografía que refleja lo que leen los autores de hoy, lo que nos recomendarían, qué texto del antiguo canon sobrevive o se debe agregar, cuáles son los vasos comunicantes entre la actualidad y la tradición. Inestable, apasionado, intergeneracional , estas altas representan un cambio de perspectiva, una nueva forma de ver una literatura en ebullición."--$c Back cover.
"An itinerary of books, a cartography that...
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At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power.“I bite my friends to heal them.”—Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCEFrom a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly brave men and...
10) Dirtbag: essays
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages ; 22 cm
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"Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out, Democratic Socialists of America), just before the first major movement for economic justice of the millennium, Occupy Wall Street. Of course, Occupy went bust, then Bernie Sanders went boom, and she threw herself into the campaign with everything she had. Frost has been one of the foremost evangelists...
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After the events of the 2020 presidential election, a Cuban teacher in Miami identifies signs of the type of society he left behind. Concerned about the conversion of the United States into a totalitarian country, he begins sending email alerts to known people. The mails have become analyses of the evolving situation and a chronicle of the occupation of each field by the radical left. Education becomes indoctrination, news becomes harmful propaganda,...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
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"Esto es y no es una novela, porque la ficci̤n a veces se desliza en sus p̀ginas. Es tambǐn una cr̤nica autobiogr̀fica que arranca con un nįo de cuatro ąos vestido con una chamarra amarilla, que pasa por un joven al que le disparan un 10 de junio y que termina en un hombre de setenta ąos que conversa con L̤pez Obrador sobre los posibles futuros de los libros en M̌xico. Pero es mucho m̀s que eso, porque adem̀s es la cr̤nica de una generaci̤n...
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Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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191 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
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"Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation....
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The essays in this volume address the epochal change we are going through as a society. We have highlighted some of the key developments affecting the evolution of defense and security challenges facing the United States and its key allies, as well as innovations and developments in selected military technologies and concepts of operations. The first section brings together essays on the world in conflict in 2022, which are assessments of the challenges...
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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"The Untold Story: The History of the Coca-Cola Secret Formula" uncovers the captivating chronicle of one of the world's most guarded secrets: the recipe behind the iconic Coca-Cola beverage. While the drink has become synonymous with global branding and timeless marketing, fewer are aware of the mysterious origins, intriguing lore, and tales of espionage surrounding its concealed composition.The narrative unfolds in the late 19th century, tracing...
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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments...
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Résumé : « J'ai passé 45 années de mon existence à sauver des vies, à soulager la souffrance. Neurochirurgien, j'ai lutté contre la mort avec des fortunes diverses, quand le scanner et l'imagerie par résonance magnétique (IRM) n'existaient pas. À l'époque, on ne parlait pas de la qualité de la vie, mais seulement de la sauver à n'importe quel prix. Puis la notion d'acharnement thérapeutique est née. Parallèlement, des soins palliatifs...
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Get the Summary of J. W. Ocker's Cursed Objects in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Cursed Objects" by J. W. Ocker delves into the world of allegedly cursed artifacts, exploring their histories and the human fascination with them. The book covers famous examples like the Hope Diamond, whose owners suffered misfortunes, and Ötzi the Iceman, linked to the mysterious deaths of those involved with him. Ocker examines...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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