The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future 9780857053671, 9780857053688, 0857053671

The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future [Paperback ed.] 0857053698, 9780857053695

The story of a search for a new art of living. How can one escape from work colleagues who are bores and from organisati

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The Politics of Sentiment: Imagining and Remembering Guayaquil 9780292795907

Between 1890 and 1930, the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, experienced a liberal revolution and a worker's movemen

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Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West 9781472129826

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Frontiers of Boyhood: Imagining America, Past and Future 080616476X, 9780806164762

When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country,” the frontier wa

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A New Frontier : The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life [1 ed.] 9781499463002

We are on the brink of a new age of exploration, and this title is sure to pique the interest of anyone interested in th

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The Future of the Past 9780199938070, 9780195069037

The late C. Vann Woodward was one of America's most prominent historians. His books have won every major history aw

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The science-music borderlands: reckoning with the past and imagining the future 9780262373043, 9780262373036, 9780262047647

Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in tran

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Biography of the Earth - Its Past, Present and Future (The Astonishing Life Story of Our Planet)

How did the birth of the Earth come about? How was the Moon, Earth's offspring, born? What good are earthquakes? Ho

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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life 0691178712, 9780691178714

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an ov

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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

"Delightful." —Mary Norris, The New Yorker A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the

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