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  • Volatile Texts: Us Two

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    The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe—a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes. Volatile Texts is Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ironic and prescient meditation on a Europe that is ... Leer más

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  • The Cowshed

    Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    de Ji Xianlin ...
    Traducido por Chenxin Jiang ...
    A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental memoir is one of the few surviving recordings of the movement’s oppositionThe Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme ... Leer más

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  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

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  • How Smart Machines Think

    de Sean Gerrish ...
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  • Dangerous Ideas

    A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

    This “engrossing history of censorship” is an urgent, timely read for our era of social media trolls, fake news, and free speech debates (The Economist).How restricting speech continuously shapes our culture, props up authorities, and maintains class and gender disparitiesThrough compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More ... Leer más

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  • Quantum Strangeness

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