Book type: non-fiction (1975)
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Appalachian Elegy : Poetry and Place by Bell Hooks EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
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Aquí no es Miami / This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor ES
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sórdidos. Lo que su libro hace es manifestar la ignominia en toda esta rudeza. Aquí no es Miami es un libro de crónicas devastador, luminoso y emotivo. Con facilidad nos lleva de la mano por toda una gama de sentimientos que van de la compasión al asombro, de la dulzura a la impiedad. Parece que está escrito por un sobreviviente, o, digamos, por un exconvicto. El ojo de Fernanda Melchor es implacable. Mira por nosotros. Nos ahorra el trabajo de desplazarnos a Veracruz y de atisbar en las oquedades m... continue
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Arab Fairy Tale Feasts : A Literary Cookbook by Karim Alrawi EN
EgyptDescription:
An entertaining, multifaceted, and delicious way to explore Arab culture Arab Fairy Tale Feasts is the latest title in the highly-praised Fairy Tale Feasts Collection, a creative series that folds enchanting folk tales into cookbooks of kid-friendly recipes. Award-winning writer and storyteller, Karim Alrawi, draws on his deep knowledge of Arab culture to create original stories that are a feast for young imaginations. Told with intriguing details, the tales take young readers on a delicious cultural journey and invite them to consider an Arab perspective. Each tale symbolically incorporates f... continue
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Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger EN
EthiopiaDescription:
"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." —The Daily Telegraph Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life—"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European... continue
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Archipel des passions by Charlotte Casiraghi, Robert Maggiori FR
MonacoDescription:
Une élève, un professeur, une rencontre, une infinité de discussions. Et l'idée est venue à Charlotte Casiraghi et Robert Maggiori de mettre par écrit ce qui germait de leurs dialogues, lesquels allaient souvent tous azimuts mais revenaient toujours à la question du sensible, de ce qui nous affecte, des frontières ou de l'absence de frontière entre les émotions, de leur logique, de leur confusion parfois. Il leur est alors apparu que tous nos états d'âme formaient un ensemble d'îlots solidaires, reliés par le courant magnétique du désir, qui tisse entre eux d'invisibles chaînes. C'est cet arch... continue
176.
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage fr... continue
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Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian EN
ArmeniaDescription:
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. Armenian Golgotha is Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the firs... continue
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Arta simplităţii by Dominique Loreau RO
FranceDescription:
Dominique Loreau vă propune o subtilă alianţă a eticii cu estetica, inspirată din filosofiile orientale, o apologie a simplităţii, care nu înseamnă, în ruptul capului, simplificare.
„Spaţiu, lumină şi ordine, iată de ce are nevoie omul ca să trăiască, pe lângă o farfurie cu mâncare şi un pat.“ Le Corbusier
Dominique Loreau, eseistă franceză, trăieşte de peste treizeci de ani în Japonia. A devenit cunoscută în întreaga lume odată cu bestsellerul său Arta simplităţii, vândut în sute de mii de exemplare.... continue
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As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth : And Other Poems by Alain Mabanckou EN
Country: Africa / 
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Description:
A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou. These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou's poetry is frank and forthright, urging his compatriots to no longer be held hostage by the civil wars and political upheavals that have ravaged their country and to embrace a new era of self-determination where the village roosters can sing again. These music-infused texts, beautifully translated by Nancy Naomi Carls... continue