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Why Adults Need to Play Terr, Lenore PHD
'Most of us think of adult play as respite or indulgence, but having fun is no trivial pursuit. In fact, it's crucial to put mental creativity, health and happiness. 'But there is also ...
The Cluetrain Manifesto (The End of Business as Usual) Levine, Rick Locke, Christopher , Searls, Doc & Weinberger, David,
This book is a seminal work that was so forward thinking that we are only getting closer to implementing the main tenets in 2007. This description represents my viewpoint: "IMHO, The ...
Father Greg & the Homeboys Fremon, Celeste
'Father Greg requests, 'Hold my calls'. But when a prison inmate gets a chance to phone, the priest reneges, 'Well, let me take just this one.... A young man comes by, dressed for success, to ...
Smart Mobs Rheingold, Howard
Rheingold writes a seminal work, describing a process involving social networking we have only really begun to apply. Howard was one of the original members of the WELL and is considered to ...
The Future of Ideas Lessig, Laurence
This is it: 'Tragedies occur when resources held in common get overused. If everybody's cattle consume a pasture, at some point the cattle will overuse the pasture, so there will not be ...
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 ...
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 ...
l'art médecine Davila, Thierry et al
This excellent catalogue assembles a vast collection of images and essays which elucidate the persistent links between art and medicine in the Western world. The authors present an iconographic ...
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 ...
A tale of two cities Dickens, Charles
One never feels the importance of a period in history unless he is confronted not only with facts but emotions that stimulate the desire to impose light upon an era. It is then the job of a ...
The Brooklyn Follies Auster, Paul
This is another wonderful book by Auster. And what’s more, it is EXCITING. After having read a lot of serious stuff, Brooklyn Follies takes off with a slow and sad start. An elderly man moves ...
After Dark Murakami, Haruki
What happens when the sun sets and night falls? This is a novel about the mysteries and unrealities of the night that happen to those people who
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 ...
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 ...
Jesus Lived In India Kersten, Holger
Maybe you picked up The Da Vinci Code , just to know what the big fuss was about. And maybe you read it and realized that the whole thing was pretty intriguing, and you couldn't help but think: ...
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 ...
Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Keresztesi József writes about the Hungarian edition of Utazás az éjszaka mélyére Céline's classical work from 1932 is considered to be one of the wildest novels of the 20th century. ...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Kundera, Milan
Original publication in Czech: Kniha smichu a zapomneni, 1978.
The Catcher In The Rye Salinger, J-D
The Catcher In The Rye is the teen-angst novel of all times, which is why it belongs in all libraries on the globe, public or private - and even if you only have one silly little bookshelf at ...
Popular Music Niemi, Mikael
The story in Popular Music takes place in the 60s, more specifically in the Swedish town of Pajala, located above the arctic circle, close to the Finnish border. With approximately 7 months of ...
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Haddon, Mark
'Pretty good book,' I thought, after having read The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime . It was only when I started thinking about what to read next, and realized that I only wanted to ...
Naive. Super. Loe, Erlend
Erlend is a 25 year-old Norwegian guy who has somehow wandered a little off track in life. He doesn't really know where he's going and nothing seem to excite him anymore. When his brother ...
The Ringmaster's Daughter Gaarder, Jostein
Think about what it's like coming home from a long trip: that moment when you step in the door and look around. You know you're home, but because you have been away for so long, you suddenly see ...
