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An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom.
Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally paralyzed by anxieties over threats like nuclear war. Though we may stare at different...
Social psychologist Erich Fromm observed the spread of alienation in the 1960s, arguing that humans who were once dynamic, creative beings were reduced to fixating on TV screens, emotionally paralyzed by anxieties over threats like nuclear war. Though we may stare at different...
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Grantchester mysteries volume 5
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English
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Collects six new stories featuring the priest and part-time detective Sidney Chambers, in which he helps a youth in a hippie commune, a student who is divested of a family heirloom, and his former curate, who has been tied to an arson attack.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A memoir details the haunting and redemptive events of the author's life, covering such topics as his con-man father's betrayal, the murder-suicide of a houseguest, and his decade spent in the Arctic as a translator of Inuit tales.
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English
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Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere as she dreams of going to art school. But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years, their values are severely put to the test. Can Elinor remain stoic knowing that the man she likes has been ensnared by another girl? Will...
13) Cathedral
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English
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Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.
14) The Before Columbus Foundation poetry anthology: selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 429 pages ; 22 cm
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English
19) The B poems
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Poets Wear Prada
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Mass Market paperback edition.
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71 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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