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On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

A part of Harper Perennial’s special “Resistance Library” highlighting classic works that illuminate the “Age of Trump”: A striking reissue of Erich Fromm’s classic work on the existential importance of resisting the forces of...

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That Was the Millennium That Was

By: John Scalzi

A decade ago, John Scalzi wrote a series of blog entries which he called “That Was The Millennium That Was,” chronicling what he thought were some of the best, worst and weirdest things of the last millennium. Originally...

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Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

By: Jennifer Crusie

In the fall of 2000, OC Gilmore GirlsOCO premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter best friends Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. With the show...

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Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (Collected Works, Vol 3)

By: C.G. Jung

This third volume of Jung's Collected Works contains his renowned monograph “On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox” (1907), described by A. A. Brill as indispensable for every student of psychiatry–“the work which...

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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (Collected Works 15)

By: C.G. Jung

Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures....

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The Best American Food Writing 2019

By: Samin Nosrat

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times best-selling author and James Beard Award winner Samin Nosrat collects the year’s finest writing about food and drink. “Good food writing evokes the senses,” writes Samin Nosrat, best-selling...

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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

By: Marina Keegan

An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan’s...

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Living by the Word: Essays

By: Alice Walker

The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to...

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