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English
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From the author of Composing a Life (first published in 1991 and still in print), an inspiring exploration of a new stage of the life cycle, “Adulthood II,” created by unprecedented levels of health, energy, time, and resources—of which we have barely begun to be fully conscious.
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an “improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn,” and in...
Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an “improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn,” and in...
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Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Edition
First Dalkey Archive edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another...
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote tropical coast. Among mango trees, hot sands and everlasting sunshine, they plan to live the Good Life, self-sufficient and close to nature.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1043
Language
Italiano
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An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi discovers an Italy he never knew existed.
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Language
English
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The author examines not only the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also the incentives and constraints under which their views have emerged. One of the surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society--and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters...
16) Russian thinkers
Author
Series
Selected writings volume 1
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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