This selection of works by naturalist, hunter, conservation activist, and outdoors journalist Kevin Van Tighem will both inspire and provoke, because it offers an unflinching challenge to cherished myths and conventional wisdom in a...
Essays
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Author:Van Tighem, KevinSummary: - Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
David Sedaris' remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from...
- Author:Holt, JimSummary:
From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and...
- Author:Pardo, ThierrySummary:
Après Petite géographie de la fuite, Thierry Pardo poursuit inlassablement sa recherche des espaces de liberté. Cette fois, il marche sur les pas du philosophe naturaliste Henry David Thoreau et met notre époque au défi d'une...
- Author:Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziSummary:
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda...
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Author:?? Bo YangSummary:This critique of the Chinese was banned in mainland China by Communist Party officials. This edition includes a selection of Bo Yang's speeches, writings and media interviews, as well as a sample of the reactions his comments have...
- Author:Irving, WashingtonSummary:
A collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional...
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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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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...
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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...
- Author:Trethewey, LauraSummary:
An exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe...
- Author:Kopecky, ArnoSummary:
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity's latest and greatest calamity In The Environmentalist's Dilemma, award-winning journalist...
- Author:Ross, StuartSummary:
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and 'real' in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief...
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Author:National, 826Summary:"A gift...'ne wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." -USA Today Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-...
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Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:A collection of essays grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as from our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too.
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Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:Small Things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre. The purpose of this kind of genre bending is to challenge 21st century notions of truth....
- Author:Baril, GéraldSummary:
Tout au long de ce livre, deux pistes se croisent au fil des lieux, des époques et des saisons : celle des grandes oies blanches et celle des gens qui les ont admirées, convoitées. Sur la toile de fond des cycles naturels, la halte...
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Author:Emerson, Ralph WaldoSummary:Making a strong case for the importance of the individual--a core tenet of the transcendental movement--Emerson assails conformity with a series of sharp observations.
- Author:Labbé, StéphaneSummary:
En 2019, le Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC) publie un rapport sans appel : les activités humaines ont provoqué un réchauffement planétaire d'environ 1 °C au-dessus des niveaux...
- Author:King, PerrySummary:
From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. 'The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when...
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