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Ice melt; sea level rise; catastrophic weather; flooding; drought; fire; infestation; species extinction and adaptation; water shortage and contamination; intensified social inequity, migration and cultural collapse. These are but some of the changes that are not only predicted for climate changing futures, but already part of our lives in Canada. Although these transformations are global and dramatic, they are also experienced locally and particularly...
62) La Metamorfosis
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Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...
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International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 6 Number 2 (July 2016) ISSN 2231-6248 Highlights include: "Portrayal of Man-Woman Pairs in the Fictional World of D. H. Lawrence: An Analysis" --S. Chelliah "Feminism and Feminist Literary Theory: A Brief Note" --C. Ramya "Portrayal of Feminine Spaces and Sensibilities in the Short-fiction of Alice Munro" --Syed Mir Hassim & M. Revathi "Violence, Memory and Identity in Indian English...
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First published in 1900, "The Strenuous Life" is a collection of essays and speeches by American President Theodore Roosevelt. The title comes from his famous 1899 speech, also called "The Strenuous Life", which is included in this collection. In this well-known address, Roosevelt argues that the application of great effort in all our work and the striving to overcome hardship were ideal characteristics to be embraced by Americans for the betterment...
68) Over the Teacups
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Published in 1890, Over the Teacups is the last of Oliver Wendell Holmes's fabled "table talk" books. A collection of charming and witty essays, written in the form of a novel, with Holmes's characteristic engaging voice, this is a tour de force from Holmes, who was nearly eighty years old when he began composing these pieces.
69) Dreaming of Love
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DREAMING OF LOVE is a collection of Gil's poems which all have a theme of love in one way or another.
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Published in 1919, this volume is a change of pace from an author best known for his classic ghost stories. It is a history of the transmission of manuscripts from one area, culture, or age, to another. The author's moral: "Be inquisitive. See books for yourself, do not trust that the cataloguer has told you everything.”
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This 1896 book was assembled for a private printing when it was discovered that the author, a distinguished critic and novelist, had written nine anonymous pieces for the English newspaper. Here are "English Literature," "Browning," "Wordsworth," "Amiel's 'Journal Intime," "Robert Elsmere," "Their Majesties' Servants," "Ferdinand Fabre," and two more.
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Renowned steel magnate and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, immigrated to America from Scotland as a boy in 1848, and at the age of thirteen began his first job as a bobbin boy, earning $1.20 a week. By the 1870s, the successful entrepreneur had founded the Carnegie Steel Company, later U.S. Steel, which would eventually establish Carnegie as the second wealthiest man in history, after John D. Rockefeller. He published "The Gospel of Wealth" in 1889...
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Published in 1825, this collection of twenty-five sketches of famous or otherwise notable men of the time ranged widely across the political and artistic spectrum and included such subjects as Jeremy Bentham, Lord Byron, and his acquaintances William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, well known to posterity, as well as others since forgotten.
74) El velo alzado
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En El velo alzado hay un narrador que descubre algo anormal; en su caso, la habilidad para leer el futuro y también los pensamientos ajenos. Aunque claro: lo que al principio puede ser una maravilla, luego se vuelve una pesadilla. Eliot parece decirnos, en esta novelita, que necesitamos un velo para poder interactuar con los demás; de otra forma, todos seríamos como Latimer, a quien le repugna lo que ve en las mentes ajenas. (...) «Podía ver...
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The Outside In View of Uncommon Bostonian: What an Autistic Black Woman Sees is the creative non-fiction book that shows the writings and art of Yvonne Christian, a Black woman who was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2002. A few years after her diagnosis, she became a volunteer blogger of a daily newspaper that often published her posts in their printed editions. Unfortunately, the newspaper folded after their investors decided not to keep...
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With the goal of describing man with complete frankness and using himself as his most frequent example, Michel de Montaigne first published his "Essays" in 1580. This collection of 107 chapters encompasses a wide variety of subjects, originally inspired by his study of Latin classics, and later by the lives of the leading figures of his time. Michel de Montaigne saw the most basic elements of man as variety and unpredictability, and this idea permeates...
77) Just for Fun
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Grace and Claudia own a deluxe, lesbian, hotel resort on a nude beach, 30 from Barcelona Spain. For our description purposes, we will call it, "The Hotel of Romance."
It took years years for Grace and Claudia to find their own true lesbian sexuality. It came naturally. But then they were both introduced to affluent intelligent, beautiful, world traveled lesbians from all over the planet. They decided to create an environment where lesbian could come...
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First published in 1653, Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" is a classic and much-loved treatise on the art of fishing. Immediately popular after its publication, "The Compleat Angler" was reprinted and updated numerous times by Walton. Written as a conversation between the fictional characters of the experienced angler Piscator and his student Viator, which was changed to a hunter named Venator in later editions, the treatise is part an instructional...
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A controversial figure in the history of race relations around the world, Marcus Garvey amazed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, including "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."
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