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  Female Chauvinist Pigs

  Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

  by Ariel Levy

  Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig -- the new brand of "empowered woman" who embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. In her groundbreaking book, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, if male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women -- and of themselves. Irresistibly witty and... (more)
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  Star Trek Miscellaneous

  The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Vol. 1

  by Phil Farrand

  A celebration of the popular television series points out all the bloopers, errors, equipment oddities, and picayune plot discrepancies in the program's 1992-1993 season, as well as trivia questions, fun facts, and memorable lines.
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  Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked

  Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale

  by Catherine Orenstein

  A young scholar goes to Grandmother's house--and beyond--to uncover the surprisingly complex and contradictory morals we've learned from this seemingly simple folk tale. In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house--and how, from... (more)
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  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of... (more)
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  Occidentalism

  The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

  by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

  This "grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" ( Foreign Affairs ) traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-century Germany and Russia to... (more)
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  I Spit on Your Graves

  by Boris Vian

  Published in Paris in 1946 as a hardboiled thriller loaded with sex and blood, allegedly censored in the US and "translated" into French-- I Spit On Your Graves was both a pure mystification and direct home to American literature and movies. More deeply, it was a violent attack on racism by a jazz fan who had already befriended many black musicians and was to become the closest French friend of Ellington, Davis,... (more)
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  Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Revealed

  by Iman Wilkens

  Wilkens, identified only as a scholar living in Paris, claims that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey do not describe Greek civilization at all. According to his fanciful reading of these texts and of history, the Trojan War was fought between Bronze Age Celts; Troy was in East Anglia, England, not in Asia Minor; and Odysseus plied the Atlantic, with stops in Senegal (Land of the Lotus-Eaters) and Havana, Cuba. Homer, it... (more)
• Pre-Raphaelitism and Notes on the principal pictures in the Royal Academy, the Society of painters in water colours, etc (New Universal library)John Ruskin

  

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  Pre-Raphaelitism and Notes on the principal pictures in the Royal Academy, the Society of painters in water colours, etc (New Universal library)

  by John Ruskin

  This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to... (more)
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  Alchemy and Amalgam: Translation in the Works of Charles Baudelaire (Faux Titre 246)

  by Emily Salines

  Alchemy and Amalgam explores a relatively un-researched area of the Baudelairean corpus (his translations from English) and relates them to the rest of his works. It seeks to establish a link between translational and creative writing, arguing for a reassessment of the place of translation in Baudelaire’s writing method. Rather than a sideline in Baudelaire’s creative activities, translation is thus shown to be a... (more)
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  Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

  by Michel Onfray

  This tightly argued, hugely controversial work convincingly demonstrates how the world's three major monotheistic religions-Christianity, Judaism, and Islam-have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, often condemning nonbelievers to death. If Nietzsche proclaimed the "Death of God," Onfray starts from the premise that not only is God still very much alive, but increasingly ... (more)
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  Critique and Disclosure

  Critical Theory Between Past and Future

  by Nikolas Kompridis

  In Critique and Disclosure , Nikolas Kompridis argues provocatively for a richer and more time-responsive critical theory. He calls for a shift in the normative and critical emphasis of critical theory from the narrow concern with rules and procedures of Jürgen Habermas's model to a change-enabling disclosure of possibility and the enlargement of meaning. Kompridis contrasts two visions of critical theory's role... (more)
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  33⅓: Book 52

  Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love

  A Journey to the End of Taste

  by Carl Wilson

  Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband s struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There s nothing cool about Celine Dion, and nothing clever. That s part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at... (more)
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  My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion---How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream

  by Matt Diehl

  When it began, punk was an underground revolution that raged against the mainstream; now punk is the mainstream. Tracing the origins of Grammy-winning icons Green Day and the triumphant resurgence of neo-punk legends Bad Religion through MTV’s embrace of pop-punk bands like Yellowcard, music journalist Matt Diehl explores the history of new punk, exposing how this once cult sound became a blockbuster commercial... (more)
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  Scrisori imaginare

  by Octavian Paler

  Text: Romanian
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  Becoming Your Own Critique Partner

  by Jane Toombs

  Not everyone has access to a good critique group. If you're on your own and need someone to help polish your manuscript so it shines in the eyes of agents and editors, look no farther. Using examples from their own work and a huge dash of humor, veteran authors Jane Toombs and Janet Lane Walters guide both the new writer and the experienced through the labyrinth of self-editing.
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  Atlantis Blueprint

  by Rand Flem-Ath, Colin Wilson

  In 1982, the American scholar Charles Hapgood made an astonishing claim to a young librarian, Rand Flem-Ath - that civilization was almost 100,000 years old and he had the evidence to prove it. Before he could substantiate this remarkable assertion, Hapgood died. Together with fellow author Colin Wilson, Flem-Ath set out to track down the truth behind the scholar's statements. Their study of the world's most... (more)
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  The Assault on Truth

  Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory

  by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Astonishing and controversial--garnering front-page headlines when first published--this classic book examines why Freud concealed the truth about child sexual abuse. Filled with illuminating facts that call into question the very foundations of psychoanalysis, this is important reading for laymen and professionals in the field.
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  Ecopoetry: Critical Introduction

  In his comprehensive introduction, Bryson (Mount St. Mary's Coll., Los Angeles) traces the trajectory of nature as a theme in Western poetry, noting how it dominated in the centuries between Beowulf and Blake, took a dive in the age of Darwin, suffered at the hands of Frost and the other anti-Romantics, and eventually made a comeback thanks to Gary Snyder and the Beats. A subset of nature poetry, ecopoetry... (more)
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  Leaves from the notebooks of a Tamed Cynic

  by Reinhold Niebuhr

  Renowned theologian Reinhold Niebuhr began his career as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, where he served from 1915-1928. "Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic" is Niebuhr's account of the frustrations and joys he experienced during his years at Bethel. Addressed to young ministers, this book provides reflections and insights for those engaged in the challenging yet infinitely... (more)
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  Complete Novels of George Orwell

  by George Orwell

  This title contains the complete novels of George Orwell: "Animal Farm", "Burmese Days", "A Clergyman's Daughter", "Coming up for Air", "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".