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This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics. While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge.

Uncover the inspiring stories of bravery and activism in the face of war with this powerful collection of essays and poems. Written by the front-line protestors at the Russian Embassy in Dublin, this book takes you on a journey of hope and courage as fifty determined individuals come together to stand against Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

¿Quién es el verdadero Vladímir Putin? ¿Qué es lo que quiere? ¿Qué hará a continuación? A pesar de los millones de palabras que se han escrito sobre la Rusia de Putin, Occidente sigue sin comprender realmente a uno de los políticos más poderosos del mundo, cuya influencia se extiende por todo el planeta y cuyas redes de poder llegan al corazón mismo de nuestra vida cotidiana.

Las historias moldean lo que somos, desde nuestro carácter hasta nuestra identidad cultural, nos impulsan a realizar nuestros sueños y ambiciones y dan forma a nuestra política y nuestras creencias. Las utilizamos para construir nuestras relaciones, para mantener el orden en nuestros tribunales, para interpretar los acontecimientos en nuestros periódicos y medios de comunicación social. Contar historias es una parte esencial de lo que nos hace humanos.

Cámaras secretas se compone de lecturas, anécdotas y testimonios que buscan ahondar en la manera en que el cuerpo doliente nos ofrece una forma de narrarnos, de redescubrir la identidad aun a pesar de las pérdidas. En este lúcido ensayo, tan erudito como personal, Luis Jorge Boone nos ofrece una aproximación a diversos aspectos de la enfermedad y del dolor en la literatura para desvelarnos su enorme potencial transformador.

Este es un recorrido por los derechos humanos en la vejez y, concretamente, por los derechos de las mujeres, sintetizados en tres principios que a Anna Freixas le parecen fundamentales en la edad mayor: la libertad, la justicia y la dignidad. Por tanto, estos apuntes de supervivencia están pensados para la nueva generación de viejas que van estrenando libertades, para las que mantienen su dignidad, para las ancianas que mientras se desplazan por el calendario son capaces de escudriñar la vida y las relaciones cotidianas con perseverancia y agudeza.

In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.

As a young intern at Pride magazine, Diana Evans was catapulted into the role of culture editor, and so began her career as a journalist, writing about musicians, dancers and artists, interviewing the likes of Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful. Crafted over twenty-five years, with the intelligence and sensitivity that Diana Evans is known for, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art, identity, and everything in between.

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.

ほんとうに大切な話、だけ！　ゲッターズ飯田の原点エッセイ集、登場！　紙で読むからわかる占いよりも大切な話。五星三心占いを編み出したゲッターズ飯田が、10年以上の間、日課にしてきたブログの執筆。

ロングセラー『水中の哲学者たち』で話題沸騰！対話する哲学者・永井玲衣、待望の最新刊！見ることは、わたしを当事者にする。共に生きるひとにする。

積読・ジャケ買い当たり前女子に贈る　飾りたくなる読書エッセイ。読めば本がもっと好きになる——Instagramで人気急上昇中の読書インフルエンサー大島梢絵さんの初著書となる読書エッセイ。

A life is made up of many shocks - the shock of birth, of death; the shock of love, of happiness; the shock of car crashes and finding yourself in a teenage body; the shock of surviving each of these shocks, and of what might bloom in their wake. In this incredibly beautiful book, Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the shocks she has experienced.

Творчество Рюноскэ Акутагавы пользуется заслуженной популярностью как в нашей стране, так и во всем мире, а его самые известные повести и рассказы, такие как "В стране водяных", "В чаще" и "Ворота Расёмон", регулярно переиздаются. Но собранные в этом издании письма школьным друзьям, учителям и коллегам-писателям позволяют взглянуть на известного японского литератора с другой, не столь известной стороны и показывают нам Акутагаву-человека, со всеми его надеждами, мечтами и разочарованиями.

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously informed her ideas on social issues such as colorism, feminism, war-induced PTSD, homophobia, marriage, and “the n-word,” among other things.

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.”

Emerson's enduring reputation, however, is as a philosopher, an aphoristic writer (like Friedrich Nietzsche) and a quintessentially American thinker whose championing of the American Transcendental movement and influence on Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William James, and others would alone secure him a prominent place in American cultural history. Emerson is often characterized as an idealist philosopher and indeed used the term himself of his philosophy, explaining it simply as a recognition that plan always precedes action. Contents:. History. Self-Reliance. Compensation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction.

SOR JUANA fue la figura más importante del Barroco hispanoamericano. y una pionera en la defensa del acceso de las mujeres al conocimiento y la autonomía intelectual. En una época en la que estas se veían limitadas a elegir entre el matrimonio o el convento, ella se decidió por la vida religiosa para satisfacer su insaciable sed de saber. Su pluma, afilada e incisiva, fue su mejor arma para defender su derecho a estudiar, expresarse libremente y responder con valentía a las críticas que buscaban silenciarla. Considerada.