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Profane Illumination (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

by Margaret Cohen

Published: 1995-03-06

Paperback: 284 pages

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Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism...

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Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses

by Michael Taussig

Published: 1992-12-23

Paperback: 299 pages

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In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians,...

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Oh, the Places You'll Go!  

by Dr. Seuss

Published: 1990-01-22

Hardcover: 56 pages

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Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is the perfect send-off for grads—from nursery school, high school, college, and beyond! From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch, Dr. Seuss addresses life’s ups and d...

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The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel

by Liv Constantine

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“Thrilling. . . . a must-read!” — Mary Kubica “Dazzling.” — Aimee Molloy“Masterful.” — Wendy Walker “I couldn’t put it down.” — Joseph FinderThe internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with ...

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Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

by Ronald Beiner

Published: 2018-03-08

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end...

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation)

by Alexei Yurchak

Published: 2005-10-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life ha...

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The Husband's Secret: From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series

by Liane Moriarty

Published: 2013

Paperback: 448 pages

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Spirit Baby: Travels Through China on the Long Road to Motherhood

by Nina Little

Published: 2019-04-19

Paperback: 267 pages

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“There’s an ancient Chinese belief that women possess two hearts; an upper heart associated with the standard Western heart, and a lower heart tied to the uterus. They say that women hold dreams of infants, lost children, and babies never-meant-to-be in their upper hearts, while babies...

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How Not to Die Alone

by Richard Roper

Published: 2019-05-28

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, How Not to Die Alone is the bighearted debut novel we all need, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it's a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.Andrew's been feeling s...

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The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

by Jerald Walker

Published: 2016-09-06

Hardcover: 208 pages

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A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the worldWhen The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only conf...