The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

Author	Kōbō Abe
ISBN	0679733787

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit....

Author	Ali Smith
ISBN	0241207053

From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...

Author	André Aciman
ISBN	0374155011

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature...

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Victoria A. Fromkin

Oh my holy interesting!!! Everything you ever wanted to know about language, and much, much more! Keep in mind that this is a text book, so it's going to be dry. But for a text book, it wasn't so bad. If this is an area of interest to you, why not try looking up Steven Pinker's book "The Language Instinct" which...

Author

Tom Phillips

An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...

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Jorge Bucay

Demián es un muchacho inquieto y curioso: desea saber más sobre sí mismo. Esta búsqueda le conduce hasta Jorge, el Gordo, un psicoanalista muy peculiar que le ayuda a enfrentarse a la vida y a encontrar las respuestas que está buscando con un método muy personal: cada día le cuenta un cuento. Son...

Author	Auguste Rodin
ISBN	0486244873

The greatest sculptor of the nineteenth century discusses his philosophy of life with a close friend in this fascinating and informative artistic testament. Auguste Rodin spoke candidly to his protégé, Paul Gsell, who recorded the master's thoughts not only about the technical secrets of his...