Essay genre books (84)
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Reflections from Prison: 20 Years and 20 Days by Shin Young-bok EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Reflections from Prison is the collected letters and essays written by renowned Korean thinker Shin Young-Bok during his 20 years and 20 days as a political prisoner on a life tariff under Korea's military dictatorships. The letters range from postcards, to tiny characters squeezed onto his daily ration of two sheets of toilet paper. The writings themselves are not overtly political since all the letters went through censorships Yet he does not hide the harshness of prison life at the rock bottom of society. They provide a window onto his personal suffering during imprisonment a life sentence,... continue
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Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus EN
AlgeriaDescription:
Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.
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Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Via a collection of science fiction and fantasy tales, an outspoken author uses fictional characters and situations to comment on race and gender issues. Original.
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Resisting Paradise : Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture by Angelique V. Nixon EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of "... continue
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Ronduit : overpeinzingen van een possibilist by Caroline Pauwels NL
BelgiumDescription:
Als kind was ik bedreven in het laten opspringen van keien op het water. Dan verschenen er op het wateroppervlak uitdijende kringen. Dat fascineerde me mateloos.Õ Als een beweging van kringen ziet Caroline Pauwels het leven. Van de kleine intieme cirkels van de persoonlijke levenssfeer tot de almaar grotere cirkels van de universiteit, de samenleving en de wereld. Cirkels hebben geen begin en geen einde. Hun ronde vorm is een remedie tegen hokjesdenken. Dat is ook hoe Caroline Pauwels zichzelf ronduit. Cirkels hebben een eigen dynamiek, ze zitten vol mogelijkheden. Als possibilist geloo... continue
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Sand Talk : How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta EN
AustraliaDescription:
Originally published as 'Sand Talk' in Australia in 2019 by The Text Publishing Company.
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Selected Poems by Octavio Paz, G. Aroul EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Octavio Paz, asserts Eliot Weinberger in his introduction to these Selected Poems, is among the last of the modernists "who drew their own maps of the world." For Latin America's foremost living poet, his native Mexico has been the center of a global mandala, a cultural configuration that, in his life and work, he has traced to its furthest reaches: to Spain, as a young Marxist during the Civil War; to San Francisco and New York in the early 1940s; to Paris, as a surrealist, in the postwar years; to India and Japan in 1952, and to the East again as his country's ambassador to India from 1962 t... continue
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Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani EN
MoroccoDescription:
Gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex
Peru60.
Sociedade do cansaço by Byung-Chul Han PT
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Os efeitos colaterais do discurso motivacional, O mercado de palestras e livros motivacionais está crescendo desde o início do século XXI e não mostra sinais de desaquecimento. Religiões tradicionais estão perdendo adeptos para novas igrejas que trocam o discurso do pecado pelo encorajamento e autoajuda. As instituições políticas e empresariais mudaram o sistema de punição, hierarquia e combate ao concorrente pelas positividades do estímulo, eficiência e reconhecimento social pela superação das próprias limitações. Byung-Chul Han mostra que a sociedade disciplinar e repressora do século XX des... continue