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Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell, George
For anyone who has ever tried to be an artist, or harboured dreams of breaking free from convention, or looked at an advert and felt slightly sick, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is ...
America 1900 Crichton, Judy
'One of the most enlightening results of reading this tome is to realize how many topics of discussion and concern Americans share with their predecessors of 100 years ago - from racism to drugs, ...
Raising Reds (The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States) Mishler, Paul C.
'Raising Reds remains an intriguing and insightful text on a fascinating and little explored area of early western communist party activity. Mishler succeeds in isolating the central dilemmas and ...
The Weight of the World Bourdieu, Pierre
This book can be read like a series of short stories: the story of a steel worker who was laid off after twenty years in the same factory and who now struggles to support his family on ...
Crime and Punishment Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich
Raskolnikov shows us that we can punish ourselves better than anyone else. Conversely, one can say that all peace needs to be generated from within. Yes, indeed Dostoevsky should have named this ...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence, T.E.
Lawrence of Arabia's narrative of his involvement in the Arab Revolt during WWI.
L'intrus Nancy, Jean-Luc
In this personal autopathography, Jean-Luc Nancy provides a philosophical and poetic reflection on the experience of a heart transplant followed by lymphatic cancer. His highly evocative text ...
When Pain Strikes Busby, Cathy et al
When Pain Strikes presents thirty diverse, interdisciplinary responses to pain, whether physical, spiritual, psychological or moral. The book amalgamates eclectic perspectives ranging from ...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors Sontag, Susan
The first essay, 'Illness as Metaphor', written in the late 1970s, presents a cultural history of illness and its social representations. It explores the processes by which diseases acquire ...
Al Sakka Mat or The Water Carrier is Dead Al Sibay, Youssef
This 332 page novel is one of the best pieces of writing I have ever read. I enjoyed reading it for its fine style, plot, characters and language. I saw real Egyptian people walking, talking, ...
Animal farm Orwell, George
Just when one gets confused with the Russian revolution and its historical distortions, swayed under a cascade of information and ambiguity, here comes George Orwell unraveling all historical ...
The Reader Schlink, Bernhard
There are a few topics that only some novelist venture to write about. One of them is trying to answer the question: whey did the people who had participated in exterminating six million Jews do ...
On Beauty Smith, Zadie
How do I love this book? So much that I read it twice within a six-month period and dreamt about one of its protagonists. It is one of the best novels I've ever read. Zadie Smith skewers academic ...
Sri Brahma Samhita Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja,
Lord Brahma's prayers of devotion to Krsna These prayers offered at the dawn of creation by Brahma, the secondary creator of the universe, contain all the essential truths of Vaisnava philosophy.
RETOUR A PARIS Quesnay, Daniel
Retour à Paris might look like just another pretty photo book about Paris, but if you look closer you'll discover that it's an amazing little book about time. The concept behind it is simple: ...
Oscar And The Lady In Pink Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel
Oscar And The Lady In Pink looks like a children's book, but it defies the idea of what a children's book is supposed to be like, and if I were a librarian I wouldn't know how to categorize it ...
THE TAO OF POOH Hoffman, Benjamin
The Tao of Pooh is one of those books that makes you wonder about many things, and one of them might be the question: if everybody read this book and started applying its philosophy to their ...
Indian Nocturne Tabucchi, Antonio
Indian Nocturne is a strange little book that's easy to read but very hard to explain. The moment you turn the last page, you want to start reading the story again, in the hope that maybe the ...
Bonjour Tristesse Sagan, Françoise
Cécile is 17 and spending the summer at the French seaside with her lovable playboy father, who has rented a big house for Cécile, himself and his young girlfriend Elsa. Cécile spent several ...
New media culture in Europe Boyd, Frank (Hrsg. u.a)
art research, innovation, participation, public domain learning, education policy Papers on the topics of new media and art, research, innovation, participation, public domain, learning, ...
ZEROS+ONES Plant, Sadie
digital woman and the new technoculture Distinctions between the main bodies of texts and all their peripheral detail - indices, heading, prefaces, dedications, appendices, illustrations, ...
Writing on Drugs Plant, Sadie
In this exhilarating literary exploration, Sadie Plant traces the history of drugs and drug use through the work of some of our most revered, and infamous, writers. Rather than exploring drug use ...
