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China at the Center: Ricci and Verbiest World Maps

Natasha Reichle, M. Antoni j ucerler, Theodore N Foss and Mark Stephen Mir

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China at the Center focuses on two masterpieces of seventeenth-century map-making that illustrate...

Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191-1571

Adam Hook and David Nicolle

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Crusader castles and other fortifications in Cyprus, the south-western coast of Turkey and Greece...

Adventureland (2009)

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Teen comedy set in the 1980s, starring Jesse Eisenberg as uptight, over-educated, recent college...

Rev Run recommended The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) in Movies (curated)

"My favorite movie is The Talented Mr. Ripley. “Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy — Tommy.” Philip Seymour Hoffman was crazy. Jude Law was just great. I don’t like what he did, but it was just the whole running-around-Europe-loving-jazz [thing]. That was very interesting to me. He didn’t want to do his father’s business. He just wanted to love jazz. He was free enough to do it and be content. I think Matt Damon was very interesting. Just to be so conniving and to steal identities and money. Jude Law was so naive for a while and then he realized Damon was a moocher. It was kind of weird how quickly someone could be deceived when they’re caught up in their own world."

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Natalie Portman recommended A Tale of Love and Darkness in Books (curated)

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz | 2005 | Biography, Religion

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"Essentially an autobiography tracing the author’s own family’s move from Europe to what is now Israel and the disappointment of immigration. His mother killed herself, and he’s spent much of his life creating scenarios of why that happened. The process of meditating on her life makes him into a writer. The book is also about the birth of a language. He talks about his great-uncle, who was one of the architects of modern Hebrew, and how there didn’t used to be a word for shirt until he created it, because Hebrew had been a biblical language. It’s so interesting to think about what comes before the process of naming something—how you struggle when you don’t have the words to say what you feel."

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