The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
Lock In (Lock In #1)
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get...
Jessi Bone (48 KP) rated A Call To Haiti's Awakening in Books
Mar 25, 2019
Ernst Etienne in his a very small ninety pages book takes on the Nation of Haiti. Haiti is actually one of two nations on the Island of Hispaniola. He covers from the beginning of the nation when it was a set of different tribes all the way to what Haiti is today and what the nation can look like in the future. Mr. Etinne in his search of the past even covered the five different chiefdom's of the Taino Indians and their culture, beliefs, and values with unequally distinctive tribes. The actions he took on covering the history both negative and positive with slavery, pirates and struggling of the countries past and. His bravery with being willing to show all of it both positive and negative is unique in today's world where we want to forget the parts of our pasts we do not like. He is kind of bad stuff and shows how people will a lot of times make bad decisions when striving for betterment. The photographs and photographic documents were a wonderful bonus to accompany the text throughout. The information he gives is historical in nature but is in by no means boring. I found it interesting and fun and at parts quit surprising. I had no interest in Haiti but with the help of Mr. Etienne, I want to learn more about this small nation.
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
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Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its...
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Part of the TED series: Judge This! First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something...
French Impressions - The Loire Valley: the Valley of the Kings
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Yes, we know you know the Loire is the longest river in France. But did you know that one in every...
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Ambre Gauthier and Meret Meyer
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- Accompanying text for the exhibition at the Montreal Beaux-Arts Museum, from 28th January to 11th...
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The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world,...
Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England
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Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood...
Dead Boys 1977: The Lost Photographs of Dave Treat
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In the mid 1970s, photographer Dave Treat was a friend and neighbor to members of the nascent...
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