Playing for Time: Making Art as If the World Mattered
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This timely book explores the pivotal role that artists play in rethinking the future in a time of...
MoMoBookDiary (20 KP) rated Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life in Books
Oct 1, 2018
I found this book very helpful in raising questions based on faith as opposed to other books on the subject that have been more medical based.
Certainly a book worth reading and contemplating even if you yourself are not actively concerned about your own end of life. It helps the reader see other considerations that someone facing the end of life will be thinking about.
International Norms, Normative Change, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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This edited volume uses a theoretical framework that centers on norm evolution and change to study...
Maigret's Revolver
Georges Simenon and Sian Reynolds
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When Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young...
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
Adriana Hunter, Frank Wynne and Claude Lanzmann
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Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of...
The Regulars
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A fierce and feisty debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have...
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup
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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices,...
David McK (3361 KP) rated Raising Steam: (Discworld Novel 40) in Books
Jan 28, 2019
This one is to do with the introduction of the railway to the Discworld, and also offers many a reference to previous characters and situations in the series as a whole: indeed, at times, it almost feels as if Pratchett is trying to squeeze as many in as possible.
Unfortunately, it's also not his best: I have to admit, in general, I've found most of his Industrial Revolution novels to not be as good as, say, those based around either The City Watch or those based around The Witches. Like the locomotive on which it is based, I found this one to take a fair bit of time to gather steam, and to feel a wee bit ponderous and unwieldy - this, I have to say, is not a novel I would use to introduce somebody new to the delights of the Discworld. :-(
How to Draw Almost Everything: An Illustrated Sourcebook
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Learn to draw pretty much EVERYTHING. With over 2,000 images, this visual reference book offers...
Tokyo Cult Recipes
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The third book in the Cult Recipes series, following New York and Venice, Tokyo Cult Recipes...