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Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. With chapter titles ranging from "The Miser and His Friends" to "The Red Reactionary," from "The Separatist and Sacred Things" to "The New Theologian" and "The Romantic in the Rain," this volume includes 39 brief sketches of individuals, each one of...
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Renowned for his prolific writing-everything from philosophy screeds to detective fiction-G. K. Chesterton had a worldview like no other, one that inspires thinkers to this day. In this collection of writings, he shares his thoughts on a diverse array of topics, making no apologies for his leaps from one subject to another. He's not afraid to get into the down and dirty of everyday life. Of his essays-on futurists, telegraph poles, kinds of men, and...
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Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success,...
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El Discurso preliminar es la gran y originaria justificación y explicación del Código Napoleónico. De esta obra se han dicho muchas cosas y se han señalado diversos fines y posibilidades. Lo cierto es, y en esto sí parece haber unanimidad, que se trata de una de las grandes construcciones jurídicas de la historia. Ello es útil para quienes tenemos al derecho como nuestra materia de trabajo. Lo es, también, para quienes quieran profundizar...
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G. K. Chesterton's hilarious defense... of just about anything. In this hodgepodge of early musings, a young G. K. Chesterton operates under the conceit that many objects in the human purview - ranging from the humdrum and mundane to the outright ridiculous - could use the advocacy of a good apologist every once in a while. This lively book, filled with essays from Chesterton's days as a budding journalist for the Speaker, vindicates everything from...
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Manuel Castells tiene el don del cirujano, el corte preciso, breve, en apariencia fácil, pero fruto de años de investigación. El objetivo de su bisturí aquí es la crisis que arranca en 2008, la "great recession" como ha sido bautizada en Estados Unidos destronando a la de 1929. Su análisis incisivo hace aflorar los cambios profundos que se han operado en España y en el mundo: la deslegitimación de los políticos y de las élites, los movimientos...
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Leída, galardonada, la más querida del autor, la novela Palinuro de México abarca un amplio abanico de registros en el tiempo, en el saber, en lo real y en la ficción, en el lenguaje y sus imágenes, en los géneros que la componen: teatro, prosa, poesía, ensayo. Es, pues, una de las novelas más importantes de la literatura mexicana.
Dice Fernando del Paso: "Palinuro es el personaje que fui y quise ser y el que los demás creían que era, y...
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The Secret Life of Conservationists is a compilation of stories from members of the global online community, Lonely Conservationists.
On the heels of her autobiographical journey outlined in How to Conserve Conservationists, Jessie Panazzolo provides this book as a platform for other voices to add to the narrative of what it really means to be an advocate for wildlife and natural spaces.
In an industry that is often glamorized by the media, this book...
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In these articles, written between 1913 and 1915 for the left-leaning Daily Herald, Chesterton allows himself the freedom to rage eloquently against capitalism without favoring socialism or Marxism. He applies his Christian principles and thinking to the socioeconomic conditions of his time. The first section presents an analysis of capitalism, the second contains articles challenging capitalism's fundamental tenets. Chesterton reveals that the real...
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The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
12) Main Street
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Carol, a college-bred girl, marries a small town doctor. She tries to uplift the natives of the small town.
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Extrait : "Le mot sociologie, néologisme assez récent, puisqu'il a été créé par A. Comte, n'a eu longtemps, n'a même pas encore, du moins pour le grand public, un sens bien précis. [...] Grâce aux moyens de pénétration et d'investigation que l'industrie moderne a mis en notre pouvoir, les peuples primitifs sont chaque jour mieux connus..."
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Meals in the field, combine rides with Grandad, picking fresh berries out of the garden and building forts in the bales.
In her fourth book celebrating farm life, Billi J. Miller examines what farm life is like, through the eyes of children. Only not just interviewing "today's" children, this book tells the stories of farm kids from the 1920s to 2022. Starting with her husband's 100-year-old grandmother, Miller asks what her days looked like when...
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¿Por qué no vimos la barbarie? Esa es la pregunta de fondo que se plantea Jorge Iván Bonilla. Es ella la que nombra las claves de toda la formulación de este trabajo, las que conciernen tanto a la especificidad de la guerra que aún desgarra a Colombia como al lugar desde el que se formula la cuestión que moviliza la investigación, esto lo visibilidad social, política y cultural de esa guerra.
Insertado en un proceso y un contexto precisos,...
16) Les Excentriques
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Extrait : "On ne lit pas assez les travaux de Charles Bonnet sur l'histoire naturelle, surtout son Traité d'insectologie qui renferme un chef-d'œuvre : Observations sur les Pucerons. Que de dévouement à la science ! quelle cruauté immense pour ces petits êtres qui manquaient de biographes ! Il faut voir le savant Suisse, armé de sa loupe, étudiant les sexes des pucerons, décrivant avec sa chaste plume les agaceries du puceron, les coquetteries...
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In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault's Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world's ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where...
18) World brain
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'World Brain' is an article written by H. G. Wells and first contributed to the new 'Encyclopédie Française' in 1937. It explores the idea of a 'permanent world encyclopaedia' that would contain 'the whole human memory' and that would be 'a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world.' Fascinating and arguably prophetic reading, 'World Brain' will appeal to fans of any of Wells' work. Includes a specially...
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Extrait : "Dans cette série d'aperçus systématiques sur le positivisme, je caractériserai d'abord ses éléments fondamentaux, ensuite ses appuis nécessaires, et enfin son complément essentiel..."
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Extrait: "L'année a gaiement commencé par un charmant procès dont l'héroïne est mademoiselle Cora Pearl, qui a tant fait parler d'elle depuis deux ou trois ans; il s'agissait, non d'une dentelle ou d'une robe, de perles fines, ou de diamants, mais d'un simple cheval arabe qui avait coûté quinze mille francs et qui a été revendu deux mille cinq cent francs."
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