The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses by Søren Kierkegaard
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Soren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
On Lust and Longing by Blanche d'Alpuget
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On Lustand On Longingtogether for the first time. When On Lustwas first published it caused a media sensation- Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. Now she reveals all. On Longingcaused a similar sensation, for different reason ...Show more
A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life by Tara Button
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime. With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we've been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Butt ...Show more
Unbelievable by John Shelby Spong
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Five hundred years after the Reformation of 1517, Christianity is once again in crisis. In failing to adapt to advances in our thinking and spiritual perspectives, it has clung to outdated concepts and has tenaciously defended dogmas formed before major advances in human thought had occurred. For John S ...Show more
Significant Others : Creativity and Intimate Partnership by Whitney Chadwick; Isabelle de Courtivron
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such ...Show more
When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Asha Bandele
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy emblazon] each word she utters." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversationT ...Show more
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World by Mark Stevenson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders in ...Show more
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism S.
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism. The publication of "Simulacra et Simulation" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Bau ...Show more
Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesme ...Show more
Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life by Chris Kohler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"A must-read." - GameDaily. What makes Japanese video games so popular? This enjoyable and informative examination of how Japanese developers raised the medium to an art form includes interviews, anecdotes, and accounts of industry giants such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, and others involved in th ...Show more