It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the...
Essays
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Author:Klosterman, ChuckSummary: - Author:Leschziner, Guy.Summary:
This program is read by the author. A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night's rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating...
- Author:Conaboy, KellySummary:
Kelly Conaboy presents a funny exploration of the joy found in loving a dog so much it makes you feel like you're going to combust. Follow Peter and his owner to Woofstock and canine dance lessons. From learning about Peter's...
- Author:Kociejowski, MariusSummary:
In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world's surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel...
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For philosophizing gardeners and anyone who likes to pick up a spade and get their hands dirty. Gardeners discover a new world every year-whether they're cultivating heirloom vegetables, foraging for wild herbs, creating a small...
- Author:Langer, Ellen J.Summary:
Mindful learning takes place with an awareness of context and of the ever-changing nature of information. Learning without this awareness, as Langer shows convincingly, has severely limited uses and often sets on up for failure.
- Author:Erasmus, DesideriusSummary:
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week at Sir Thomas More's estate in Bucklersbury. He later refined and extended the piece. In it he personifies Folly as a god, whose companions are likewise-personified...
- Author:Gibran, KahlilSummary:
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays about Al-Mustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many...
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The second incisive issue of a digital literary journal born out of self-isolation. During this trying time, the journal aims to lift spirits and engage minds with stimulating poetry, works of fiction, and art, while also publishing...
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A powerful and intimate essay collection of gratitude, and an essential, enduring love letter to the queer community in which contemporary queer icons pay homage to those who helped pave their paths.
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To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of...
- Author:Foster, Karen R.Summary:
In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health....
- Author:Robinson, Eden, Simons, PaulaSummary:
In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place...
- Author:Reinke, SteveSummary:
Steve Reinke is one of the most intriguing artists we've got; his scope is enormous, his imagination absolutely singular. His video art — The Hundred Videos, Anthology of American Folk Song, Anal Masturbation and Object Loss —...
- Author:Novella, Bob, Novella, Jay, Novella, StevenSummary:
This is a high-tech roadmap of the future, cracking open the work of futurists of the past by examining what they got right, what they got wrong, and how they came to those conclusions.
- Author:Ehrlich, GretelSummary:
These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer-"Wyoming has found its Whitman" (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series...
- Author:Eastman, Charles A.Summary:
Eastman, a Sioux educated in white society, kept his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indian's relation to the natural world. These six essays, told in very personal terms and coupled with seven folk tales, illuminate the...
- Author:DuBois, W.E.B.Summary:
A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as...
- Author:Bennett, Paul W.Summary:
Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a...
- Author:Trussler, MichaelSummary:
In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on the meaning of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century to confronting the...
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