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Literature and Evil (Penguin Modern Classics) by Bataille Georges
epub |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:Bataille, Georges [Bataille, Georges]

THE POETRY OF SADE’S DESTINY We can hardly be surprised that such a strange and difficult truth was first revealed in a splendid and astonishing manner. The possibility of consciousness ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
Assuming a Body by Gayle Salamon
epub |eng | 2011-11-17 | Author:Gayle Salamon

WAVE OF MUTILATION? The New York Times article is accompanied by two pictures of Shane Caya, a transman discussed in the article. The first is a shot of Shane, his ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-12-24 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

historical creatures, we look as though we are going somewhere – so that it is easy to misread this movement in teleological terms and forget that it is all for ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 26,2014 )
Age of Revolution 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

III However, the economic development of this period contains one gigantic paradox: France. On paper no country should have advanced more rapidly. It possessed, as we have seen, institutions ideally ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:John Berger

THE AMBASSADORS BY HOLBEIN 1497/8–1543 It is painted with great skill to create the illusion in the spectator that he is looking at real objects and materials. We pointed out ...
( Category: Medieval March 26,2014 )
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
epub |eng | | Author:Slavoj Zizek

* * * 1 Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood, London: Verso 2007, p. 13. 2 If the basic underlying axiom of the Cold War was that of MAD (Mutually Assured ...
( Category: Utopian March 26,2014 )
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

Irène Reweliotty comments: To be accepted by men, you have to think and act like them; if you don’t, they treat you like a black sheep, and solitude becomes your ...
( Category: Existentialism March 26,2014 )
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Eduardo Galeano [Galeano, Eduardo]

THE BLACK CURSE OF PETROLEUM Along with natural gas, petroleum is today the chief fuel that keeps our world in motion; it is a raw material of rising importance for ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
Straight by Hanne Blank
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hanne Blank

DATING AND RATING Around 1914, it became possible to go out on a date.[20] As the Victorian era drew to a close, and the cult of true love trickled down ...
( Category: LGBT March 26,2014 )
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-08-17 | Author:Judith Butler [Butler, Judith]

7. Quandaries of the Incest Taboo I would like to address two issues that have not only caused some discontent for psychoanalysis, but that emerge as internal to psychoanalysis as ...
( Category: Feminist March 26,2014 )
How To by Francesca Lia Block
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Francesca Lia Block [Block, Francesca Lia]

for valentina value your musical name your fashion sense your strength your light and dark your uncanny ability to appear resurrected from the dead believe him when he tells you ...
( Category: Social & Family Issues March 26,2014 )
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jesse L Byock
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-03-25 | Author:Jesse L Byock

7. Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
Why We Write by Meredith Maran
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Meredith Maran [Maran, Meredith]

I got sober twenty years ago. I wrote my first two books of poetry while I was still drinking. I revised the second one in the loony bin. I knew ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Michael Frayn

POSTSCRIPT Where a work of fiction features historical characters and historical events it’s reasonable to want to know how much of it is fiction and how much of it is ...
( Category: Drama March 25,2014 )
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Matt Ridley

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...
( Category: Organic March 25,2014 )

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