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Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on humanity and American life, is best known for his classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's body of work, however, is expansive; from Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to the travelogue The Innocents Abroad and essays on human nature, religion, science, and literature, no aspect of life is left untouched...
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¿Qué es la etnomusicología? ¿Por qué es relevante hoy en día? ¿Cómo ha cambiado esta área de estudios a lo largo del tiempo y qué potencial tiene para arrojar luz sobre temas complejos relacionados con la música, el sonido, la cultura y la sociedad? Los temas de este libro varían ampliamente, y la colección no rehúye la contradicción ni pretende pintar un cuadro nítido y cohesivo de la etnomusicología en otras latitudes. Más bien,...
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«Un fragmento», escribió Friedrich Schlegel, «ha de estar aislado del mundo que lo rodea y ser completo en sí mismo como un erizo». A eso aspiran las formas breves –el aforismo, el apunte, el fragmento– de la literatura: recogidas en sí mismas, como si se apartasen del mundo, sorprenden a quien las encuentra con esa sensación de aislamiento y, a la vez, de fragilidad. Emparentadas por igual con la precisión de la filosofía y la iluminación...
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Kitchen gardens, moss gardens, botanical gardens, landscape gardens: there are as many varieties of gardens as there are gardeners, and the way we tend to our gardens is just as vast. Every gardener discovers a new world every year-regardless of whether they cultivate heirloom vegetables, specialize in wild herbs, create a small permaculture garden on the city balcony, or maintain a garden designed for self-sufficiency.
In these informative personal...
45) Culinary Tourism
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue that the sensory experience of eating provides people with a unique means of communication. Editor Lucy explains how and why interest in foreign food is expanding...
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Esta obra editada por el Dr. Sergio González Rodríguez pretende abrirse a una conversación desde la psicología social sobre las profundas transformaciones que han ocurrido en los últimos 30 años en nuestro país y en América Latina sobre la relación individuo-sociedad. Cuyos mayores efectos son los cambios culturales producidos por los procesos de modernización y modernidad que hemos enfrentado.
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This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States – have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine....
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"Food writing is stepping out," legendary food writer Ruth Reichl declares at the start of this, the inaugural edition of Best American Food Writing. "It's about time...Food is, in a very real sense, redesigning the world." Indeed, the twenty-eight pieces in this volume touch on every pillar of society: from the sense memories that connect a family through food, to the scientific tinkering that gives us new snacks to share, to the intersections of...
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Trail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the Outdoors is a collection of quotes, poetry, and passages from classic books that provide outdoor inspiration to those in the woods, on the mountain, beside the water, or at home. Featured throughout the book is a pantheon of outdoor lovers, nature writers, and environmental conservationists, including John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley Powell, George Perkins Marsh, and many more whose love and respect for...
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In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.
Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able to touch or experience touch, or to have to go without...
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Beginning in 1847, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the mostly unexplored Maine woods. Along the way he recorded his observations on the wildlife (flora and fauna), the weather, terrain, and on the nature of the people he met along the way, including loggers, rivermen, and his Abnaki guides. In Thoreau's Maine Woods, photographer Dan Tobyne captures the essence of the Maine Thoreau discovered and described in his book. The combination of short...
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Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.
The book will take a look at the cricket world, with stories from Australia, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand and the sub-continent, and go on to cover many other sports, with contributions from the world of rugby,...
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Much has been written on the centenary of the First World War; however, no book has yet explored the tragedy of the conflict from a theological perspective. This book fills that gap. Taking their cue from the famous British army chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, seven central essays--all by authors associated with the cathedral where Studdert Kennedy first preached to troops--examine aspects of faith that featured in the war, such as the notion...
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A collection of military history essays examining the philosophical side of war and the meaning of "victory."
What does it mean to win a war? How does this differ from a simple military victory? How have different cultures and societies answered these questions through history, and how can we apply these lessons?
When considering how a war might be "won," there are three big ideas that underpin how success can be measured: ownership, intervention...
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Pensar la salud es una tarea que jamás se ha emprendido en Occidente. Hasta la fecha, la preocupación fue siempre negativa, así: el rechazo de la enfermedad, la superación de la pobreza y otras expresiones semejantes. Es posible decirlo en términos fuertes y directos: el llamado a la salud coincide con un auténtico giro civilizatorio. Mientras que Occidente siempre supo solo de la enfermedad y cómo vencerla, asistimos a los albores de una nueva...
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Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the tenth in that series, The Best Women's Travel Writing, presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures...
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The eleventh issue of a digital journal created to alleviate the malaise of social distancing with exceptional writing and artwork.
The Quarantine Review celebrates literature and art, connecting readers through reflections on the human condition-our lived experiences, afflictions, and dreams. Through The Quarantine Review, Dupuis and Sarfraz give voice to the swirling emotions inside each of us, to create a circuit of empathy between the reader,...
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Gardening enthusiasts and those who love to read about gardening will be delighted by this new collection of Elizabeth Lawrence's work. A gifted landscape architect and writer, Lawrence (1904-85) chronicled her experiences with plants in a voice treasured for its distinctive blend of horticultural expertise and stylistic elegance. Through her six books, all still in print, Lawrence continues to inspire an ever-widening circle of dedicated readers...
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For much of the country's post-Independence history, Indian politics was, dominated by a single towering figure: Jawaharlal Nehru. A leading figure of the Independence movement, and Mahatma Gandhi's chosen successor, Nehru, as India's first prime minister, from 1947 until his death in 1964, was the architect of its birth as a modern nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic.
In this volume, some of our foremost thinkers...
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The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment.
"This book-like most that have found their way into the world this fall-began life in the Before Times," writes editor Sarmishta Subramanian. Written and first published by leading magazines and journals in 2019, the essays selected here speak with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. From health concerns both global and individual;...
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