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61) The authority gap: why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize,...
63) Home and exile
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work.
Author
Publisher
Basic
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Ford Madox Ford declared Samuel Johnson "the most tragic of all our major literary figures." Blessed with a formidable intellect and a burning passion for ideas, Johnson also struggled throughout his life with mental instability and numerous physical defects. One of the most illustrious figures of the English literary tradition, Johnson made his fame as poet, essayist, critic, dictionary-maker, conversationalist, and all-around larger-than-life personality....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
68) The deadly sisterhood: a story of women, power, and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the famous and infamous women of the late Italian Renaissance, tied together by political marriages and bloodlines, and reassesses the reputations of such celebrated figures as Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story. Just as important, and just as valid a contribution...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger. The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of...
72) A small place
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua's colonial past, Kincaid compels us to think about the people behind the beautiful landscape of this tiny island.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author's friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire...It is the fable of a shared journey and a portrait of an abiding friendship--a fitting tribute to the Penny Poet of Portsmouth."--Dust jacket, page [2]
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
76) Here we all are
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children's author-illustrator Tomie dePaola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors who established a place for Native literature in literary...
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
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