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Author: Robert Sklenář
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780472113101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author explores the nihilistic view of the cosmos expressed by the poet and relates this perspective to the philosophical system of the Stoics
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1951627377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-12-03
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0547348789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis retrospective collection of verse from the former US poet laureate and National Medal of Arts winner spans six decades of celebrated work. Throughout his writing life Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, culminating in 2006 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, and includes poems published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New York Times. Those who have come to love Donald Hall's poetry will welcome this vital and important addition to his body of work. For the uninitiated it is a spectacular introduction to this critically acclaimed and admired poet.
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Yen
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0593117530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao. To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. But when Liza arrives on the first day of the bake-off, she realizes there's a catch: all of the contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for Liza to date. The bachelorette situation Liza has found herself in is made even worse when she happens to be grudgingly attracted to one of the contestants; the stoic, impenetrable, annoyingly hot James Wong. As she battles against her feelings for James, and for her mother's approval, Liza begins to realize there's no tried and true recipe for love.
Author: Bieke Vandekerckhove
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0814647731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA the taste of silence t the youthful age of nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove was diagnosed with ALS (a degenerative neurological disease, aka Lou Gehrig's disease). Unexpectedly, three years later her disease went into remission and, even though partially paralyzed, she has lived with ALS now for more than twenty years. In twenty-seven short chapters, written at various points in her life, the author shares her search for meaning and strength. Much to her own surprise, she found both in the stillness of contemplation, in the richness of silence. The practice of Benedictine spirituality and Zen meditation became, as she says, the two lungs through which she breathes. Along the way of her painful but illuminating journey, she shares insights learned from artists of all stripes, whether poets, painters, sculptors, or moviemakers, and from great contemplatives and thinkers. The result is a work that offers a deep trove of spiritual wisdom for every reader, whether affl icted with debilitating illness or in perfect health.
Author: Magica Quartet
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0316389129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKazumi is determined to continue to battle witches alongside the Pleiades Saints, a group of Magical Girls who were Kazumis companions prior to losing her memory. But it turns out that the witches aren't her only enemy... Yuuri, a Magical Girl, has turned against her own kind and targeted the Pleiades Saints for destroying what was precious to her. What better way for Yuuri to exact her revenge than to destroy what the Saints hold dear?! Abducted by Yuuri, Kazumi knows she has to help the Pleiades Saints...but does she have what it takes to fight one of her sisters-in-arms?!
Author: Joanne Chen
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: 2008-03-18
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0307409805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved by all, the taste of sweet has long been at the center of both controversy and celebration. For anyone who has ever felt conflicted about a cupcake, this is a book to sink your teeth into. In The Taste of Sweet, unabashed dessert lover Joanne Chen takes us on an unexpected adventure into the nature of a taste you thought you knew and reveals a world you never imagined. Sweet is complicated, our individual relationships with it shaped as much by childhood memories and clever marketing as the actual sensation of the confection on the tongue. How did organic honey become a luxury while high-fructose corn syrup has been demonized? Why do Americans think of sweets as a guilty pleasure when other cultures just enjoy them? What new sweetener, destined to change the very definition of the word sweet, is being perfected right now in labs around the world? Chen finds the answers by visiting sensory scientists who study taste buds, horticulturalists who are out to breed the perfect strawberry, and educators who are researching the link between class and obesity. Along the way she sheds new light on a familiar taste by exploring the historical sweetscape through the banquet tables of emperors, the pie safes of American pioneers, the corporate giants that exist to fulfill our every sweet wish, and the desserts that have delighted her throughout the years. This fabulously entertaining story of sweet will change the way you think about your next cookie.
Author: John Keats
Publisher:
Published: 1818
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
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