Essay genre books (152)
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Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques EN
PortugalDescription:
A moving exploration of families facing death, in the voices of those affected in one rural corner of Portugal.
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O cameră doar a ei by Virginia Woolf RO
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Eseul „O cameră doar a ei” reprezintă una dintre cele mai valoroase contribuții la literatura feministă din secoluln XX. A fost publicat inițial în 1929 și constituie o argumentare spumoasă, urbană și convingătoare împotriva subminării intelectuale a femeii, cu precădere a scriitoarelor.
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O mundo é bárbaro by Luis Fernando Verissimo PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Passados 508 anos, o ser-humano parece inviável, segue ateando fogo à Terra e nada indica que um superbombeiro se aproxima para a apagar o incêndio. Do meio ambiente à política, passando pela economia e pelo comportamento bárbaro das pessoas no dia-a-dia, sobram argumentos para os pessimistas. Mas nem tudo está perdido. O planeta é habitado pelo humor de Luis Fernando Verisimo e sua salvação está nas crônicas reunidas no livro O Mundo é Bárbaro. Escolhidas num universo de 500 textos, entre os melhores que o autor escreveu nos últimos oito anos, elas discutem a ascensão chinesa, a guerra contra... continue
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On the Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche EN
GermanyDescription:
In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures.
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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hi... continue
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Pa-Liwanag: Writings by Filipinas in Translation by Gantala Press EN
Country: Asia / 
Philippines
Philippines
Description:
It includes writings by an arrested food factory worker; an urban poor community leader; a lesbian migrant worker; a former domestic helper; indigenous and peasant women; teachers and professionals. Discussing topics like sexuality, romance, motherhood, the domestic, the body, the environment, history, state repression, and women's involvement in the Filipino people's long struggle for justice and peace, Filipinas explain, illuminate – paliwanag – the darkness of our times. Through translation they bring these stories to light, liwanag, and emerge. Translating Feminisms showcases intimate coll... continue
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Plainwater : Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern traditions. Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Ovid. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Ital... continue
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Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi EN
IranDescription:
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. "[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Remarkable. ... Audacious." —The Progressive "Stunningly beautiful and perceptive." —Los Angeles Review of Books What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? Wh... continue