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Monkeyluv

And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

by Robert M. Sapolsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005

How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one’s behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine’s list of America’s “50 Most Beautiful People” teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another?...
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So Sad Today

Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous." Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012,...
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by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016

Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman.   Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery...
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Collected Essays

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and After Henry

by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by “one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers” (The New York Times). In these masterpieces of razor-sharp reportage, the National Book Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author proves herself one...
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Invisible 3

Essays and Poems on Representation in SF/F

by Jim C. Hines, Mary Anne Mohanraj
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

18 essays and poems on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author K. Tempest Bradford. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust.
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by Marilynne Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable,...
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Stalking the Nightmare

Stories and Essays

by Harlan Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

With a foreword by Stephen King: Provocative and entertaining pieces from the multiple award-winning author. Pure, hundred‑proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four‑part ‘Scenes from the Real...
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by Joseph Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a peak of perfection. There were many 19th century masters, not so many after that. Who is the greatest...
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by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012

The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for which he is most known. In this collection of...
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by Camille Paglia
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011

A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
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How to Tell a Story

And Other Essays

by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

A small collection of essays by Mark Twain, including How to Tell a Story, The Wounded Soldier and the Golden Arm. I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one. It will be hard for you to believe that I, who am...
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by Albert Camus
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims,...
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by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others. The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed...
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by Chelsea Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

"I had a real romance with this book." —Miranda July A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect. From graffiti gangs...
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