A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe [1. pbk. ed] 9780813926636, 0813926637

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English Pages XI, 162 Seiten Year 2010;2004

A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe [1. pbk. ed]
9780813926636, 0813926637

A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in

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On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the w

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Much has been written about Natsume Soseki (1867–1916), one of Japan’s most celebrated writers. Known primarily for his

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"In Member of the Club. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in t

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We are all 'glass consumers'. Organisations know so much about us, they can almost see through us. Governments

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A memoir by L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr., about Sunset, the extraordinarily influential western magazine he guided fo

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On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier’s confrontation with Rousseau’s Rêveries, the philosoph

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