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In the world of complacency and status quo our thoughts often remain under a glass ceiling. Neologisms carries us above that ceilng in as way that lets us experience life beyond the crowd and the standards of what is considered normal to most but unacceptable to the few. Let the words of neologisms inspire and rekindle your thinking bringing you above the mediocrity of average and allowing a new victory of thought.
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Embark on an intellectual journey with "The Bertrand Russell Collection," a comprehensive anthology spanning the influential philosopher's groundbreaking works. From "The Analysis of Mind" to insightful essays on humanism, ethics, and society, this collection encapsulates Russell's brilliance and offers timeless reflections on reason, knowledge, and the complexities of the human experience. Explore the mind of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers...
83) On Death
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Dean of St. Paul's, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificent "Death's Duel" is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1628 and 1629), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the King's sickness. Together they create a...
84) PoliticKu
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A mini-guide to everything that's wrong: unemployment, the economy, employment, corporations, bad bosses, inequality, crap jobs, culture, foreign policy, revolution, the environment, Wall Street, animal rights, the 1 percent...you name it, I skewer it.
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On 28th May 1958, the Mother recounted a vision she once had of a wonderful Being of Love and Consciousness, emanated from the Supreme Origin and projected directly into the Inconscient so that the creation would gradually awaken to the Supramental Consciousness. The Mother's account of this vision was brought out a first time in November 1906 in the Revue Cosmique, a monthly review published in Paris. Six other visions followed in 1906 and 1907.
86) Convent Mermaid
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Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.
Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.
As Les Murray has written, Rod's poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro...
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Un viaje por la verdad: el antídoto perfecto en los tiempos de las fake news.
¿Cómo hemos llegado al mundo de la "posverdad" y los "hechos alternativos"? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo podremos salir de él? Este libro nos da la respuesta a través de la compleja historia de la verdad y la mentira. Baggini, uno de los jóvenes filósofos británicos con mayor proyección mundial, identifica los diez tipos de verdades más habituales y estudia cuáles son...
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Fueled by an insider's view of Indiana and the state's often surprising connections to the larger world, IN Writing is revelatory. It is Indiana in all its glory: sacred and profane, saints and sinners, war and peace, small towns and big cities, art, architecture, poetry and victuals. It's about Hoosier talent and Hoosier genius: the courageous farmer-soldiers who ardently try to win the hearts and minds of 21st century Afghan insurgents, the artisans...
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Entelequia + Sofisma = UtopíaUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Esta obra es un ensayo sobre varias palabras y en especial sobre el significado del título de este ensayo filosófico lingüístico y semántico muy pintoresco que realiza Carfer, ya que al parecer muchos seres humanos ignoran el significado de muchas palabras, que si son mal utilizadas por los grupos políticos, sociales, económicos y religiosos...
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What is stopping us from practicing our human future now?Beyond the old paradigm of false narratives and party politics, we walk in natural law of nature, culture, spirit.An empowering deep dive for free thinkers, righteous rebels, and awaking activists, Nowick Gray's essays from The New Agora (2020-21) paint visions of our creative sovereignty.
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Tolkien's magnificent mythology that began in The Silmarillion and culminated in The Lord of the Rings had its origin in Celtic, Finnish, Greek, and Norse myths that he loved, but also in accounts of the Bible, which he, as a practicing Christian, knew well. Tolkien's tales illustrate, and are illuminated by, themes such as creation, the fall, providence, sacrifice, redemption, and judgment that he drew from Jewish and Christian scriptures. Understanding...
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For thirty years, Frank Conroy's commentaries on life, music, and writing have appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and GQ. DOGS BARK, BUT THE CARAVAN ROLLS ON collects these pieces into an autobiography in journalistic snapshots. They evoke Conroy's southern childhood, his teen years in New York as a truant hanging out at pool halls and Harlem jazz clubs, his first glimmers of the power of language and the...
94) No Sympathy
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I don't look for sympathy. I made the choices that put me in federal prison for thirty-five years, without parole. I'm sure most people couldn't care less about the life of any prisoner until they become the victim of one who escapes or gets out. To reduce crime rates and the national deficit, some would prefer to behead those who ran afoul of the law, rather than to pay the cost of incarceration. Punish the bastard! Feed 'em to the lions! they chant....
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Le territoire – parent, amant, esprit, mère, tante – a façonné le corps autochtone. Joshua Whitehead cartographie avec sensualité et joie
la relation entre corps et territoire, bouleversant les idées reçues sur l'identité autochtone, les traumatismes de l'histoire, la santé mentale et la guérison. Voyage intérieur, auto-enracinement, Joshua Whitehead creuse son corps et ses angoisses. Émerge une nouvelle narration o la perte et la souffrance...
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This critique of modern society argues that culture must be organic, and cannot be planned or imposed. The word culture has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of any one class but of a whole society-and yet its preservation may depend...
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The reflective essays of one of America's most accomplished authors. Andre Dubus is celebrated for his ability to depict the subtlest of human emotions in his characters, and when he turns the microscope on himself, the resulting insights are no less illuminative. Intimate and expressive, these autobiographical accounts of his childhood in Louisiana, his experiences in the Marine Corps, and, later, his life as a husband and father, paint a vivid portrait...
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Get the Summary of Leslie Jones's Leslie Fcking Jones in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Leslie Fcking Jones" is the candid memoir of comedian Leslie Jones, chronicling her life from a challenging childhood to her rise as a comedy star. Born to a military family, Leslie faced racism early on but was instilled with pride in her Black heritage by her parents. Her father, an army electronics engineer, and her mother,...
99) First Logic
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First Logic is an introductory text covering numerous topics in logic. This third edition includes expanded exercise sets for all chapters, updated examples, and extended discussion of concepts such as inductive reasoning, truth trees, and natural deduction. Chapter one presents some of the core concepts of logic, including validity, soundness, argument recognition, and the distinctions between deduction and induction. Chapter two outlines some of...
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La premio Pulitzer y candidata al Nobel Annie Dillard ha dedicado su vida a examinar el mundo a su alrededor con los ojos bien abiertos, bebiendo la vida de manera intensa e implacable. Ya sea observando un sublime eclipse lunar o una polilla consumida en la llama de una vela, el temblor de los nenúfares en un estanque o cientos de mirlos de alas rojas que huyen, el asombro de Dillard ante la fragilidad del mundo natural rejuvenece e inspira placer...