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Get the Summary of Bell Hooks's Teaching to Transgress in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Bell Hooks' "Teaching to Transgress" is a profound exploration of education as a path to liberation, challenging traditional teaching methods and advocating for an engaged pedagogy that nurtures intellect and spirit. Drawing from Paulo Freire's critique of the "banking system" of education, Hooks promotes a participatory classroom...
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Get the Summary of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Doppelganger" by Naomi Klein is a deep dive into the author's unsettling experience of being mistaken for her ideological opposite, Naomi Wolf. Klein's journey is sparked by her own mistaken identity during Occupy Wall Street and leads her to investigate the rise of anti-democratic forces and the cultural dynamics of doubling, where...
3) So to speak
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"These wondrous poems are lyric germinations of the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Terrance Hayes shapes language into figures of music and music into figures of language"--
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"In nine lively essays, critc Aisha Harris invites us into the wonderful, maddening process of making sense of the pop culture we consume. Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape...
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A waitress discovers an unknown illness infecting the food industry and attempts to spread awareness along with the cure.
If there were ever a time to recommend a special of the day, this book is the red, white, and blue-plate special Americans want to order. This diary reveals the cause, diagnosis, and remedy for "VIP Syndrome," a condition coined by the author as a food server's greatest occupational hazard. Learn the symptoms of VIP Syndrome,...
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Get the Summary of Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Get the Picture" chronicles Bianca Bosker's immersive journey into the art world, beginning with her determination to understand and appreciate art by infiltrating a premier New York City art gallery. Despite being an outsider, Bosker secures a position at Jack Barrett's 315 Gallery, where she learns the ropes of the art industry...
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Get the Summary of Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Identity Trap" by Yascha Mounk examines the cultural and political impact of identity politics in post-World War II Europe and its evolution into a dominant ideology. Mounk explores the skepticism towards universal truths and societal progress that emerged among intellectuals influenced by Marxism and postmodernism, leading...
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Can't stand online dating? You're not the only one Join me as I rant, moan and complain about the brutal world of online dating. I hate it and find it loathsome at times, yet like so many others, it's something I need. In Frogs and Ghosts, I don't hold back. I share my honest, uncensored opinions about this modern frustration. So many of us resort to using the internet to improve our love lives, but there's never a guarantee of success. You're lonely...
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My uncle Eddie Parker, though he worked in engineering for most of his life, was a talented amateur artist with a keen interest in Shropshire history. After his death, his daughter Eve and I agreed to publish a book featuring his drawings of old Shrewsbury buildings, with historical background and some photographs, where appropriate, of the same sites as they are today. The main difference between this edition and the first edition is that the photographs...
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Con el paso de los años, John Waters se ha convertido en una de las figuras de referencia no solo del cine underground estadounidense, sino de la cultura pop en general. En su larga trayectoria, que abarca desde clásicos de la inmundicia como Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos o Cosa de hembras hasta títulos más mainstream como Hairspray o Los asesinatos de mamá, el cineasta de Baltimore ha ido repitiendo una serie de obsesiones temáticas y formales...
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Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question. Telle est la démarche qui prévaut dans ce livre conçu comme un dialogue entre un père et son fils. Il a trait au populisme, concept ambigu par excellence, tiré à hue et à dia au gré des positionnements politiques. Le mot est aussi le signe d'un vocabulaire idéologique en mal de précision, voire une arme de combat pour clouer au pilori un opposant ou réduire au silence une constestation...
13) French Touch: Comment les Français ont façonné le monde de la mode, de la gastronomie et de l'art
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Les Français sont connus pour leur mode de vie unique, leur histoire fascinante et leur culture riche et variée. Dans ce livre, nous explorerons la France d'une manière amusante et humoristique en examinant les nombreux clichés et stéréotypes associés aux Français.Nous découvrirons comment les Français ont inventé de nombreuses choses qui ont façonné le monde, de la mode à la gastronomie, en passant par l'art et la littérature. Nous...
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The sea shanties, YOLO's, and red bandanas aren't even half of the GameStop story.
Did you know Robinhood didn't initiate their infamous trading halt?
Did you know why Redditors refer to 2021 as the "sneeze" rather than the squeeze?
Did you know that shares in your brokerage account might be counterfeits?If not, buckle up.
Witness firsthand the real and utterly ludicrous hivemind that brought Wall Street to its knees in January 2021, and...
15) Not So Spooky
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Sick and tired of Halloween? Me too A brief series of rants about Halloween, the most frightening day of the year, or so they say. I don't get too excited about it and am far from its biggest fan – in Not So Spooky, you'll discover why. These days, Halloween is a celebration of all things chilling and macabre. It shines the spotlight on people, creatures and beings that instil terror and leave you petrified. Though it sounds thrilling, there are...
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When tradition twists with popular culture and lands on "people's oral humor," idealistic Reuben Lamberth finds himself in a mess. He is a young, progressive, inspired scholar teaching at a prestigious northeastern university, but his other unique self has another foot planted secretly in the world of standup comedy as Josh Sandburg. His stage name is a composite of 'joshing' and the renowned American poet Carl Sandburg.
Neither his fully tenured...
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"By filling one's head instead of one's pocket, one cannot be robbed."
The appeal of Chinese proverbs is profound and universal. With brevity, clarity, and simplicity, these carefully chosen words help pass wisdom and insight throughout the ages. This timeless, eloquent collection of proverbs offers fundamental truths about the natural world and the human condition, on subjects such as:
Ability • Adversity • Beauty • Character • Conflict...
18) Viral
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The COVID-19 pandemic: uncensored observations, mini stories and more A collection of writings about the catastrophe that was the COVID-19 pandemic. The pieces of writing in this collection are presented in three categories: – 'Lockdown'. Restricted movement, common activities banned and socialising outlawed. These are three key aspects of the brutal, draconian rules we had to live by. 'Lockdown' looks at life under severe, often debilitating restrictions.–...
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Rock Paper Scissors (RPS), the ultimate decision-making tool, is played the world over. By the late twentieth century, however, the sport's illustrious governing body, the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, had fallen on hard times. It was then that brothers Douglas and Graham Walker boldly took up the challenge to restore the World RPS Society to its former glory, and now they bring you the ultimate strategy guide to this time-honored game.
The...
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