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"When women share the truth about life and loss . . . hope is restored" in this enlightening and comforting memoir about purpose, personal growth, and nature's ability to heal (Sarah Ban Breathnach)."There is so much life in the garden. That is why I come. Life that is...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-03-24
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Nel tempo in cui viviamo, le diverse soggettività sessuali o di genere, i vissuti della propria e altrui "diversità", anche da parte di chi si colloca nella cosiddetta "normalità", modificano i contesti e creano nuovi modelli affettivi e comunitari, alternativi a quelli...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-03-16
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Questioni di genere
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Il concetto di omofobia emerge all’inizio degli anni Settanta del secolo scorso e rapidamente si impone come strumento scientifico per interrogare ciò che prima della sua invenzione era ritenuto normale: l’avversione sociale verso persone gay e lesbiche. Altrettanto...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-03-16
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For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only...
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Corsair
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2020-01-16
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In questo libro, colleghi e amici di Remo Bodei ne ripercorrono l’opera filosofica restituendo un quadro articolato e affascinante che si presenta come una vera e propria introduzione al suo pensiero. Nei suoi numerosi libri, Remo Bodei non separa mai la dimensione...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2019-12-20
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Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2019-12-03
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2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘Where are you going?The voice came again, and two figures appeared … It was clear that these men were not working for the government. They wore green uniforms, with the small red logo of the Ta’ang National...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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2019 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich,Phulaan de rang kaalay.(In the season of red roses,These flowers are turning black.)'Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘In the Andean cultural context, the mouth of the mine is a portal between worlds. Outside, the miners are Catholic. Inside, the human soul has escaped the jurisdiction of God.’In this searing investigation,...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-11-14
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From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my most favourite...
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Penguin
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2019-11-07
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'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and...
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Penguin
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2019-06-27
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The purpose of this book is to shed light on the rather unexplored «English facet» of Fernando Pessoa, considered one of the major Portuguese poets of the twentieth century.The originality of this study also lies in its extensive use of unpublished documents. Out of the...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles
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2019-05-28
Collection :
Travaux et recherches
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and...
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Penguin
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2019-04-25
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As Heard on NPR's This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers and the author of Inciting Joy, award-winning poet Ross Gay....
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Algonquin Books
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2019-02-19
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A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of...
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Penguin
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2019-01-31
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2018 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEThe Restless Earth explores the lives of communities who remain sceptical of China’s big city allure. As the traditions of the New Year bring urban dwellers back to rural Qinghe, Miriam Driessen interrogates...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-01-16
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2018 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEA timely exploration of art on the boundary of Northern Ireland’s fragile peace. Stephen Groves follows a famed Protestant artist and his Catholic accomplice as they paint the walls of Belfast’s no man’s...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-01-16
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2018 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEWith honesty and humour, Mark Clemens describes lessons he learned from a honeymoon spent recovering from terrible sickness in a Manhattan hotel room. Years later he considers the complex history of the...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-01-16
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Papyrology, which burgeoned in the nineteenth century after the discovery of thousands of papyri in Egypt, consists in the study of Greek and Latin texts written on a transportable medium (papyrus, clay potsherds, wooden tablets or parchment). While inscriptions and...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2018-11-19
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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