During William Gilmore Simms’s life (1806–1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayist, proving by example the...
Intellectual life
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Author:Simms, William GilmoreSummary: -
Author:Joseph, Peniel E.Summary:An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality--the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed...
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Author:Karpinski, Eva C., Henderson, Jennifer, Sowton, Ian, Ellenwood, RaySummary:Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has...
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Author:Judt, Tony, Snyder, TimothySummary:Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas. Spanning the entire era and all currents of thought, this book restores clarity to the classics of...
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Humans have been attempting to understand for thousands of years what knowledge truly is and how we aquire it, but the more we learn about the human body, our brains, and the world around us, the more challenging the quest becomes. The...
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Author:Dyja, ThomasSummary:Much of what defined America as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
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Author:Binet, LaurentSummary:Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies--struck by a laundry van--after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. But was it an accident or murder?
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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...
- Author:Moller, VioletSummary:
“ The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , winner of the Pulitzer Prize After the Fall of Rome,...
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Author:Lepore, JillSummary:How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that...
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Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:Progressions presents another batch of erudite and entertaining essays on a variety of topics covering Saskatchewan's literary development, as well as tributes to some of the major contributors to that history, and a pictorial...
- Author:Kidder, David S.Summary:
This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp. Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection-collections of...
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Author:Al-Khalili, JimSummary:British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.
- Author:Leith, LindaSummary:
Vivid stories from a Canadian literary icon, who shares a life spread across continents and immersed in books. It’s the life that many dream of: education in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities before becoming a novelist, essayist,...
- Author:Robertson, RitchieSummary:
The Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and the press, of rationality and evidence based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years later is the...
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In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements...
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Author:Holmes, RichardSummary:When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages...
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Author:Shulman, AaronSummary:Journalist Aaron Shulman presents an absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative that takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain's most...
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Author:Paquet, GillesSummary:Ce tableau d'avancement examine le Canada français de la dernière moitié du XXe siècle et propose quelques repères utiles, souligne certains enlisements, avancées et retards, et cherche à comprendre son évolution malaisée à travers...
- Author:Marty, SidSummary:
In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer...
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