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Tolkien's magnificent mythology that began in The Silmarillion and culminated in The Lord of the Rings had its origin in Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse myths that he loved, but also in accounts of the Bible, which he, as a practicing Christian, knew well. Tolkien's tales illustrate, and are illuminated by, themes such as creation, the fall, providence, sacrifice, redemption, and judgment that he drew from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Understanding...
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Focusing on the combined task of our mind and body, together with social and historical aspects, understanding who we are seems to be an ever-challenging task.
With the rise of technology and time constraints, lifestyle activities and even gaps in some of the educational practices – learning who we are has become more complex.
This book has been intended as a review of some of the most fundamental principles involving our interactions with the...
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"Sex & The City meets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful-an addictive read."
-Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning women writers explore the fraught and powerful connections between love and money. As featured on the "Today Show"--with contributions by Karen...
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From prairie towns to sprawling cities, Laser Quit Smoking Massage revels in the peculiarities of the Canadian West. A unique and exciting new voice in Canadian literature, Cole Nowicki's witty, insightful, and ever-curious reportage explores the evolving states of community, family, and belonging. "Cole Nowicki's Laser Quit Smoking Massage examines the externalized oddities of late-stage capitalism to illuminate the tiered pathos of our everyday,...
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I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O'Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O'Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other...
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Considéré dans ce texte: L'embourgeoisement et son étrange rapport au passé. Les endroits qui nous donnent juste envie de boire et de baiser. Le film Drive et Ryan Gosling en général. Les bars de hipsters qui font jouer les chansons de Rihanna. La lumière particulière de Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Stigmata and Other Essays is about my journey through madness and an awakening spirituality. It asks tough questions, but in the end we have to decide for ourselves what to believe. Still, the book finds hope. My journey was not an easy one. Voices, depression, confusion. My spirituality is not easy to swallow. My reality is in doubt. We treat the mentally ill cruelly when we reduce them to misfiring neurotransmitters. Someday, we will all talk of...
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This is a collection of personal essays about a typical Midwestern family in the mid-twentieth century. The family of four daughters and a mother and father enjoyed life in a big house, but life was not without its drama, sorrow, or angst. The essays include: the Barnum and Bailey Sisters, Birth and Death, The Brook, Mother's Bread, Blackberry Picking and Other Leisure Arts, A Drunken Pyromaniac, Let's Go To the Movies, Apple Blossom Time, Pickle...
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Les images de la maternité naissent dans les clichés (Communion! Souffrance! Délivrance!), vivent de clichés (Main sur un front fiévreux! Claque en arrière de la tête!) et meurent sur un cliché (Elle ne m'a jamais dit qu'elle m'aimait!). Pour les contourner, il faut avancer prudemment, faire confiance aux histoires qui émergent et espérer qu'elles forment, au bout du compte, un tout cohérent. Fanny Britt se risque ici à une sorte de plaidoyer...
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"When I started RAW magazine in the '80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children's comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic."-Françoise Mouly, from the Introduction
FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragonés, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others.
This year with a sampler of comics for kids!
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"There's something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it's proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It's alive!"
–Roz Chast, from the Introduction
FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others
Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn,...
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Aaron Burch is both nostalgic and looking forward to what's to come, all while trying to enjoy the present as much as possible. A Kind of In-Between looks at the last few years of Aaron's life (getting divorced, teaching, being a writer, settling into life in the Midwest in his 40s) and also back to his childhood (being adopted, an almost obnoxiously happy and loving childhood, growing up on the West Coast), in curious, playful snapshots that become...
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A collection of essays from some of the best writers in America, about what it means to be a fully functional, and sometimes fully dysfunctional, 21st–century, born–in–the–USA Latina
Tired of the trite cultural clichés by which the media has defined Latinas, the editors of this collection of personal essays by both established and emerging authors, have gathered them with the intention of representing their varied experiences, through hilarious...
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