The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
The Bloomsbury Group by Frances Spalding (Text by)
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
An affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the wars The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were the ...Show more
The Bone House by Beverley Farmer
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Explores the nature of grief and mourning, illness and separation, language and silence, and the power of vision and memory to counteract time.
The Book of Unconformities - Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, ...Show more
The Democracy of Species by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now--from the creator of the popular online project of the same name.Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass ...Show more
The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The celebrated pioneer of the 'do-nothing' farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing.
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human by Lee Child
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: TLS Bks.
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?'- Karin Slaughter'. I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' - The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Mirror of Production by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
The most provocative work from the father of postmodernism. A spectre haunts the revolutionary imagination: the spectre of production. Revolutionary thought - from Marx to Deleuze - merely replicates the obsession with production of classical political economy. Jean Baudrillard's provocative early study ...Show more
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far be ...Show more