Essays
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5,00 €by Preti Taneja
Blurring genre and form, Aftermath is a profound attempt to regain trust after violence and recapture a politics of hope among the lives that many think have forfeited the right to be mourned.
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17,50 €by David Damrosch
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books.
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14,90 €by John O’Connell
Imagine a beloved friend sharing their favorite books with you—the ones that shaped them, made them who they are, and inspired them to achieve their dreams. Now imagine that friend is David Bowie.
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18,00 €by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer tackles everything from sustainable agriculture to pond scum as a reflection of her Potawatomi heritage, which carries a stewardship ‘which could not be taken by history: the knowing that we belonged to the land.’ . . . It’s a book absorbed with the unfolding of the world to observant eyes—that sense of discovery that draws us in.” —NPR
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Original price was: 16,50 €.14,85 €Current price is: 14,85 €.by Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Çongar (Translator)
A resilient Turkish writer’s inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism.
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15,00 €by David Sedaris
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French.
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5,00 €by Lena Dunham
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls —as one of the most original young talents writing today.
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5,00 €by Alastair Bonnett
A tour of the world’s hidden geographies—from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts—and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
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4,00 €by David Shields
Reality Hunger questions every assumption we ever made about art, the novel, journalism, poetry, film, TV, rap, stand-up, graffiti, sampling, plagiarism, writing, and reading. In seeking to tear up the old culture in search of something new and more authentic, it is the most vital book of the new century. -
5,00 €by Hannah Jane Parkinson
Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days.
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Original price was: 16,00 €.14,40 €Current price is: 14,40 €.by Olivia Laing
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we’re not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
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15,50 €by The School of Life
The Sorrows of Work offers an invigorating and optimistic perspective on our working lives – and presents the skills and tools we need to overcome any professional challenge.
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17,90 €by Wendell Berry
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities
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16,50 €Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
Rich with humour, insight, compassion – and absolute honesty – Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, Wild.
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Original price was: 19,50 €.15,60 €Current price is: 15,60 €.by Daniel Jones (Editor), Miya Lee (Editor), Stacey Paterson (Contributor)
An illustrated collection of 175 mini love stories from the New York Times’s Tiny Love Stories column, by the editors of Modern Love.
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11,70 €by Jay Griffiths
‘If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does’ John Berge