Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker
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Category: REM Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
Over the years, the companies have deployed an arsenal of schemes in an attempt to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing ideas, poaching employees, planting spies, ripping off characters or launching price wars. Sometimes the feud has been vicious, at other times, more cordial. But it has ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
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Category: REM Cultural Studies | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by VAROUFAKIS YANIS
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
The 40s - The Story of a Decade - The New Yorker by New Yorker Magazine Editors; David Remnick (Introduction by); J. D. Salinger (Contribution by); Zadie Smith (Contribution by); E. B. White (Contribution by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor)
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Category: REM Cultural Studies | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals. In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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Category: REM Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was `Goodbye, Charlie ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
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Category: REM Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Close to Home: Selected Writings by Alice Pung
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S LEADING WRITERS Close to Home brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best - an irresistible pleasure for fans and n ...Show more
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. This book charts the progress of a relationship between a man and a woman, from their first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work’s genius lies in the way it minutely analysis emotions we’ ...Show more
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
Oh, how the French love love! For hundreds of years, they have championed themselves as guides to the art de l'amour through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema. A French man or woman without amorous desire is considered defective, like someone missing the sense of smell or taste. Now revered ...Show more