The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
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Category: On Writing
Ray: "Readers of “Between you and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” will be enchanted by this sequel of sorts. And if you haven’t read "Comma Queen,” you will after finishing “Greek to Me,” and learning how Greek helped Norris, an international literary treasure, come to know the derivation of many Eng ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
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Category: Words & Ideas
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person...witty, funny and tonic". -- The New York Times Book Review For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In, Search of Lost Time (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answ ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer The by Charles Graeber
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Category: Words & Ideas
One hundred years ago, physicians marvelled at patients with bacterial infections who appeared to have been spontaneously cured of deadly tumours. What was a miraculous mystery then is now hard scientific fact- immunotherapy is the cutting edge of cancer treatment, and a crucial breakthrough in the race ...Show more
Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
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Category: Words & Ideas
Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu, from the origins and lessons of the Great Flu that killed millions to vexing questions like: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and are we close to finding a cure?
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
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Category: Words & Ideas
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i ...Show more
Provocations - Collected Essays by Camille Paglia
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Category: Philosophy
One of the Best Books of the Year: Kirkus Reviews A timely and lavishly comprehensive collection from the inimitable critical firebrand--hailed as "a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever" (The New York Times)--tackling sex, art, feminism, politics, and education, and covering the ...Show more
The Ordinary Virtues - Moral Order in a Divided World by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Philosophy
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling." --New Statesman What moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin ...Show more
THE PAINTED WORD by WOLFE TOM
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Category: Words & Ideas
"America's nerviest journalist" ("Newsweek") trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" ("The Washington Post") Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transf ...Show more
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
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Category: Words & Ideas
A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Salisbury plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson's wit, humour and deep love of nature make him ...Show more