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Rocket and lightship
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Adam Kirsch |
"A collection of essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last seven years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and el… |
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Senior moments
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Willard Spiegelman |
"A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid hum… |
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Pleasure
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David J. Linden |
Award-winning neuroscientist David Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brains, and why ecstatic activities can easily become addictive. On this trip into cuttin… |
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Sex, drugs & chocolate
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Paul Martin |
"In Sex, Drugs & Chocolate, Paul Martin looks at changing attitudes to pleasure over the centuries, including religious and legal attempts to control it, together with the biological and psychologica… |
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Pétunia, princesse des pets
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Dominique Demers |
Un roi et une reine ont une fille unique parfaite, enfin presque. Son seul défaut est que depuis quelques temps, elle pète. Ses flatulences, au début inodores et discrètes, deviennent peu à peu gênan… |
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Fire & Ice
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Anne Avery |
**''GRAND HOUSE''**... *It was a huge old mausoleum, a place where p's and q's mattered more than people did.* **Kate had escaped it once, though it still haunted her dreams, along with bitter memori… |
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