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The Last Empire is a collection of provocative, witty, and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal about all things USA. In more than two dozen essays, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects, offering incisive observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, and the Clintons - interwoven with a rich tapestry of personal anecdote, critical insight, and historical detail. Erudite,...
2) Heretics
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In 'Heretics', Chesterton starts from his belief that the most important thing about a person is their view of the universe, as this determines all else; and he decries the rationalist view for having no vision of ultimate good. Such failure of nerve is expressed in George Bernard Shaw's epigram: 'The golden rule is that there is no rule.' Taking on Ibsen, HG Wells, Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Nietzsche, Chesterton rails against 'the great mental
...3) Walking
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A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudgeonly. Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and soul to the 'absolute freedom and wildness' of nature.
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"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite-one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was...
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With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.
7) Essays
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Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition...
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Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original figures in modern literature. Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, drawn from books published over the years, with one of the most famous being the short story The Library of Babel, in which he imagines an infinite library filled with every book written,...
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Have 16 words managed to be wildly interpreted in over the 200 years since America was founded? Have a vast majority of laws, mandates and other legal talks have had so much debate than this phrase?
How far does the First Amendment go in regards to Religious Freedom? Should there be Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion?
When laws...
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Le destin du plus puissant des gangs criminels canadiens actuels s'est joué dans le dernier quart du 20e siècle, de 1980 à 2000. En vingt ans à peine, une bande de jeunes délinquants jadis désargentés, brutaux et asociaux, liés par leur amour de la Harley-Davidson et par leur quête de sensations fortes, ont fini par conquérir les sommets du crime organisé québécois, voire canadien. Il s'agit d'un fait unique dans l'histoire des pègres...
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Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a post-truth world-but if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and evidence across the last century.
In Who Killed Truth? acclaimed Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore traces the origins of our current post-truth crisis. In a series of spellbinding...
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""Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?" wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts, they have been revived at last by Maud Casey in City of Incurable Women as complex, flesh-and-blood people, dispossessed and marginalized due to their gender and class but with their own stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and re-imagined, poignantly...
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"Fasting for Ramadan is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from his family's cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and...
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A riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis--Naples--in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These writings helped inspire Elena Ferrante's best-selling novels and she has expressed deep admiration for the author of this volume, originally edited in Italian by Italo Calvino. Goyaesque in its depiction of the widespread suffering and brutal desperation...
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I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they...
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A profound change in the world order becomes apparent within a pandemic. These are real life stories of the HIV and AIDS pandemic that reveal a truth. You cannot manage the future without knowing the past. The contributors to this book are experienced with the HIV and AIDS story as medical professionals, patients, family and friends. They are feisty individuals who have been prepared to discuss ideas and explore the social history of their lives....
17) El Príncipe
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El Príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo es una obra clásica de la literatura política que ha perdurado a lo largo de los siglos. Publicado por primera vez en 1532, este tratado se ha convertido en una guía fundamental para los líderes y gobernantes de todo el mundo.
En El Príncipe, Maquiavelo ofrece consejos y estrategias para aquellos que desean mantener y consolidar su poder. A través de una serie de reflexiones y análisis, el autor examina las...
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Blickt man aus der Vogelperspektive auf Karlsruhe, versteht man, warum Karlsruhe auch die Fächerstadt genannt wird. Vom Zentrum, dem Schlosse aus, streben 32 Straßen und Alleen strahlenförmig in alle Himmelsrichtungen. Das erste Stadtgebiet bildeten, einem Fächer gleich, die neun nach Süden laufenden Straßen. Mit dem Bau seiner neuen Residenz Karlsruhe, mitten im Hardtwald, erfüllte sich der Markgraf von Baden-Durlach Karl-Wilhelm einen lange...
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Die Freie Hansestadt Bremen ist das kleinste Land der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und wird zu den Stadtstaaten gezählt. Die ersten Siedlungen der späteren Hansestadt lagen auf einer Düne an der Weser, die sowohl Schutz vor Hochwasser als auch Zugang zu einer Furt bot. Im Jahre 787 unter Kaiser Karl der Große wurde die Stadt Bischofssitz und, 1186, mit dem Gelnhauser Privileg erhob Kaiser Barbarossa sie zur Reichsstadt. Die Anerkennung seiner Reichsunmittelbarkeit...
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Rund um die alte Reichsstadt Nürnberg ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die heute leider weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Der passionierte Geschichtenerzähler Marco Kirchner hat sie zusammengetragen und haucht ihnen neues Leben ein. Packend berichtet er davon, wie der goldene Ring in das Brunnengitter kam, warum des abends um neun im Nürnberger Land alle Glocken läuten, von Zwergen, Goldschätzen, so manch gruseliger Gestalt oder...