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In Praise of Forgetting
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s …
Myanmar/Burma
"Burma had the brightest prospects of any Southeast Asian nation after World War II. In the years since, however, it has dropped to the bottom of the world's socioeconomic ladder. …
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience--does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful--I shall …
Myanmar/Burma
Burma had the brightest prospects of any Southeast Asian nation after World War II. In the years since, however, it has dropped to the bottom of the world's socioeconomic ladder. …
Twenty-Eight Days on a Freighter: A Guide for Those with an Interest in Freighter Voyages
This book is everything you want to know about a voyage on a container ship. It answers many of the questions to which the author wanted answers before he took his first container …
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
A Financial Times Best Book of 2012 From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 …
The Lawless Roads
The author describes his travels through Mexico during 1937 and 1938 and his impressions of its changing culture, detailing his odyssey through the tropical states of Chiapas and …
Elogio de las aves de paso
"La observación de las aves es, innegablemente, un estado de poesía. La práctica de la ornitología es un placer sencillo, accesible a todos. Para mí fue una forma de iniciación, y …
General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
In fifteen essays, sigmund freud explains his most controversial theories exposing the darkest corners of the human psyche. Best known for his research into the unconscious …
The Worldwide History of Dress: Arabic Edition
Now available in Arabic. Here is the definitive costume book, embodying a wealth of research that is unlikely ever to be superseded. From the plant-fibre skirts of the Neolithic, …