Tag: Essays

November 25, 2024

Nobody Cares Essays

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Free Download Nobody Cares: Essays by Anne T. Donahue
English | September 18, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07DWD5V52 | 202 pages | PDF | 1.47 Mb
Witty and painfully honest essays about perfection vs. reality: "Hilarious…[an] incredibly distinctive voice." -Emma Gannon, bestselling author ofOlive

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November 25, 2024

My Affair with Art House Cinema Essays and Reviews

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Free Download My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews by Phillip Lopate
English | July 2, 2024 | ISBN: 0231216408, 0231216394 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.97 MB
Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling―and sometimes disappointing or frustrating―through his keen eyes.

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November 25, 2024

Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics

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Free Download Georg Simmel, "Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 022662109X | 2020 | 392 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today.

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October 5, 2024

Who Is Sherlock Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations

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Free Download Lynnette Porter, "Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations"
English | ISBN: 0786499079 | 2016 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way.

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October 5, 2024

The Transgressive Iain Banks Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders

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Free Download Martyn Colebrook, "The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders"
English | ISBN: 0786442255 | 2013 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies. The essays are divided into four thematic areas-the Scottish context, the geographies of his writing, the impact of genre and a combined focus on gender, games and play-and will be of particular interest to scholars of contemporary literature, Scottish literature and science fiction.

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October 5, 2024

Social Justice and Activism in Libraries Essays on Diversity and Change

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Free Download Su Epstein, "Social Justice and Activism in Libraries: Essays on Diversity and Change"
English | ISBN: 1476672032 | 2019 | 228 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library’s role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The question for many is: how?

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