en-US Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:37:35 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 62873378 One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world＊s most prolific art thief, St谷phane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser＊s strange world〞unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief St谷phane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years〞in museums and cathedrals all over Europe〞Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.

In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser＊s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart＊s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict＊s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend＊s pleas to stop〞until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.

This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.]]> 224 Michael Finkel 0525657320 Kamakshi 0 currently-reading 3.92 2023
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Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways每there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.

Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.]]> 384 Chanel Miller 0735223718 Kamakshi 0 currently-reading 4.69 2019
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]]> 10833971 Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea--that have become the stuff of parody--become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a cataclysm extending beyond mankind's understanding of horror as it had previously been known. The world is falling apart because things are out of joint at the quantum level, about which of course there's never been any guarantee that everything has to remain stable.

Koji Suzuki returns to the genre he's most famous for after many years of "not wanting to write any more horror." As expected from Suzuki, the chills are of a more cerebral, psychological sort, arguably more unsettling and scary than the slice-and-dice gore fests that horror has become known in the U.S. Never content to simply do "Suzuki"--as it were--but rather push the envelope on what horror is in general and for which readers have come to know him, Edge borders on being cutting-edge science fiction. The author himself terms this novel, which he has worked on for some years, a work of "quantum horror."]]> 382 K身ji Suzuki 1934287385 Kamakshi 3 3.22 2012
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]]> 30763882
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She＊s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.

Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.]]> 183 Samanta Schweblin 0399184597 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.62 2014
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]]> 130062280 854

Introduction
1.1 In the religious tradition of India sruti (Vedas) and'
smrti (what is remembered by human teachers) are the two-
main branches of Sanskrit literature which are considered to
be the source and authority of the age old religion. Both of
them are described as the two commandments of God
(sruti.smrti mamaivajne).
Manu, while declaring two more in addition to these two
as the direct sources of dharma assigns the Vedas the first
place, which is to be regarded as superior to all others.
Smrti in the widest acceptance of the term "includes the
six vedangas, the sutras, both srauta and grhya, the law books
of Manu and others, the itihasa; i.e, the Mahabharata, and the.
Ramayana, the puranas, and the nitisastras,"
As the puranas come under smrti they are next only to
the Vedas in their authority to dharma. The puranas are also
regarded as the soul of the Vedas. (atma puranam vedanam).
Both itihasa and puranas are the supplement and complement
to the Vedas, and as such', the real meaning of .be Vedas is to
be interpreted With the help of itiasa and purana, without
the knowledge of which the meaning of the Vedas might
be lost.



Historically speaking all the puranas are of later origin,
i.e. latter than the Vedas, and developed on what have been
adumbrated in the Vedas. Thus, 'he Puranas, in-a"Wide sense,
are the elaborate commentaries on the vedic tenets. It is why
itihasa and puranas are recommended for proper understand-
ing the meaning of the saying of the Vedas.
However, we come across with another traditional view
which holds that the puranas are older than the Vedas, .and]]> 0 Prof. B.N. Shastri Kamakshi 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 51381002 320 Amy Bucher 193382042X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.17
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]]> 207006355 What do you want, when no one is watching?
What do you want, when the lights are off?
What do you want, when you are anonymous?

When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons 每 some complicated, some not 每 so many of us don't talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here's the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter). Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous.]]> 372 Gillian Anderson 1419777297 Kamakshi 0 currently-reading 3.43 2024
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]]> 13601144 240 Jerry Pinto 8192328023 Kamakshi 0 4.20 2012
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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity〞and our flawed responses to it〞shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they are all are examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity and the strategies it imposes, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus.

Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.

]]> 304 Sendhil Mullainathan 0805092641 Kamakshi 5 3.92 2013
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]]> 51475366 Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people〞an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.

Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth〞a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother＊s death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of her ability begins to spread, and soon desperate members of her community beg for her help, anxious to uncover the truth about their own loved ones.

Surreal and haunting, spare yet complex, Earth-eater is a dark, emotionally resonant tale told from a feminist perspective that brilliantly explores the stories of those left behind〞the women enduring the pain of uncertainty, whose lives have been shaped by violence and loss.]]> 224 Dolores Reyes 0062987739 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.53 2019
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]]> 27241057
C谷sar, a lonely Mexican actor working in a call centre, receives the opportunity of a lifetime: a role as a serial killer on a French TV series. But as he prepares for the audition, he starts falling in love with the psychopath he is to play. B谷atrice and C谷sar are drawn deeper into a city populated with visions and warnings, taunted by the chorusing of a group of young women, trapped in a windowless room, who all share the same name ... Natasha.

A startlingly original novel that recalls the unsettling visual worlds of Cindy Sherman and David Lynch and the writing of Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami, The Natashas establishes Yelena Moskovich as one of the most exciting young writers of her generation.]]> 240 Yelena Moskovich 1781254583 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.50 2016
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]]> 40097951
Alicia＊s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations〞a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman＊s act of violence against her husband〞and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.17 2019
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]]> 342573 264 John D. Marks 0393307948 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.09 1979
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]]> 19075746 My Secret Garden ignited a firestorm of reactions across the nation--from outrage to enthusiastic support. Collected from detailed personal interviews with hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds, this book presents a bracingly honest account of women's inner sexual fantasy lives. In its time, this book shattered taboos and opened up a conversation about the landscape of feminine desire in a way that was unprecedented.

Today, My Secret Garden remains one of the most iconic works of feminist literature of our time--and is still relevant to millions of women throughout the world.]]> 282 Nancy Friday 0795335407 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.64 1973
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]]> 75571342 'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John Higgs

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen and the nineteenth-century spiritualist Georgiana Houghton to the pioneering Hilma af Klint, these women all - in their own unique ways - shared the same to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions.

Weaving in and out of their myriad lives, Jennifer Higgie considers the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art.]]> 264 Jennifer Higgie 1474623352 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.05
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]]> 180465 Every now and then, we all second-guess ourselves. If you have low self-esteem, or are constantly comparing your successes and failures with those of the people around you, it's time to take a step back and re-evaluate how you treat you.

The Self-Esteem Workbook is based on the author's original new research, which has shown that self-esteem can be significantly improved through the use of self-help materials. Now psychologist and health educator Glenn Schiraldi has shaped these tested resources into a comprehensive, self-directed program that guides readers through twenty essential skill-building activities, each focused on developing a crucial component of healthy self-esteem.

This classic is still the most comprehensive guide on the subject and the only book that offers proven techniques for talking back to your self-critical voice. Learn step-by-step techniques to help you:


Handle your mistakes and respond well to criticism
Foster compassion for yourself and others
Set up and achieve goals that will enrich your life
Use visualization for self-acceptance

If you are ready to stop being hard on yourself, and start showing compassion and understanding, this workbook can help you get started.]]> 183 Glenn R. Schiraldi 1572242523 Kamakshi 0 to-read, psych 4.00
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]]> 305826
"In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both experience and institution. The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed in its many variations on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.

One of our most distinguished poets, ADRIENNE RICH was born in Baltimore in 1929. Over the last forty years she has published more than seventeen volumes of poetry and five books of nonfiction prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Blood, Bread, and Poetry; and What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. She has received numerous awards, including the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Lambda Book Award, the National Book Award, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in California.]]> 322 Adrienne Rich 0393312844 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.23
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]]> 488644 Dear Mr. Manson...

It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy.

Dear Mr. Dahmer...

Posing as their ideal victim, Jason seduced them with his words. One by one they wrote him back, showering him with their madness and violent fantasies. Then the game spun out of control. John Wayne Gacy revealed all to Jason -- and invited his pen pal to visit him in prison...

Dear Mr. Gacy...
It was an offer Jason couldn't turn down. Even if it made him...

The book that has riveted the attention of the national media, this may be the most revealing look at serial killers ever recorded and the most illuminating study of the dark places of the human mind ever attempted.]]> 330 Jason M. Moss 0446608270 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.86 1999
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]]> 42779062 464 Sam Kean 0316381683 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.33 2019
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]]> 63035186 Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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Library of Congress

W015228

Engraved portrait of Patrick Lyon 'Graved by J. Akin.

Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, 1799. 76p., [1]leaf of 1 port.; 8]]> 84 Patrick Lyon 1170848028 Kamakshi 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 7783191
旭肋? 米羽羊老汍? ?糸汐? 汐考而耒糸羊米牝百?? 糸汐 羽汍老?考汍牝 而老?聿羊糸而汐? 米羽老羊考而? 汐羽? 米?汐 考百灰糸? 汕?汐牝灰? 汍羽?牟汍考灰? 聿肋老?? 糸汐 而灰 汛汍牝;

忙牝汐而? 汕老汐汕汍耒米?糸汍? 而汐牝糸?汍? 汍?糸汐牝 污汍米?而汍? 竹?牟灰 考而羊 米羊糸而?汎;

有? 百羊牝糸? ?聿羊耒糸 羊牝 汍污百竹灰米汐而?汍? 米汍 而羊耒? 百羊老耒耳汐?羊耒? 考百汐百牝考而??;

忙牝汐而? 灰 牝竹汐老? 百汐牝 ?竹竹汍? 羽汐牝汛牝百?? 汐考牟?糸汍牝汍? 汍羽牝考而老?耳羊耒糸;

忙牝汐而? 羊牝 羊牝百羊糸羊米牝百羊? 汛牝汍耒牟耒糸而?? 米羽羊老羊?糸 糸汐 米?牟羊耒糸 羽羊竹竹? 汐羽? 而羊耒? 米汍而汍肋老羊竹?污羊耒?;

旬 "式?老汐而羊? 污羊老?竹竹汐?" 汐羽羊百汐竹?羽而汍牝 而羊耒? 羽羊竹耒?老牝牟米羊耒? 而老?羽羊耒? 米汍 而羊耒? 羊羽羊?羊耒? 灰 汛牝汐?考牟灰考? 米汐? 米羽羊老汍? 糸汐 米汐? 羽汐老汐羽竹汐糸?考汍牝, 汐竹竹? 汍?糸汐牝 羽羊竹? 羽汍老牝考考?而汍老汐 汐羽? ?糸汐? 百汐而?竹羊污羊? 汐糸牟老肋羽?糸肋糸 汍竹汐而而肋米?而肋糸. 旬牝 有考?米羽老牝? 百汐牝 曳?牝米羊糸? 汍缶灰污羊?糸 污牝汐而? 耒羽羊百?羽而羊耒米汍 考汍 汐耒而?? 而牝? 百汐牟灰米汍老牝糸?? 肉汍耒汛汐牝考牟?考汍牝? 百汐牝 而牝 米羽羊老羊?米汍 糸汐 百?糸羊耒米汍 污牝汐 羽老羊考而汐而汍耒而羊?米汍 汐羽? 而牝? 汍羽牝汛老?考汍牝? 而羊耒?. 戎糸而?竹汍牝, 而羊 汕牝汕竹?羊 羽老羊考耳?老汍牝 ?糸汐 汍?汛羊? ?老汐考灰? 米汍 汐百而?糸汍? 朱, 汛牝汐羽汍老糸?糸而汐? ?而考牝 而羊 羽?羽竹羊 而肋糸 肉汍耒汛汐牝考牟?考汍肋糸 羽羊耒 牟羊竹?糸羊耒糸 而牝? 考百?肉汍牝? 米汐?, 百汐牝 污牝汐 羽老?而灰 耳羊老? ?考肋? 糸汐 考百汍耳而羊?米汍 百汐牟汐老?.]]> 320 Christopher Chabris 0307459659 Kamakshi 0 3.90 2010
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]]> 123207191 An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise.

In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime〞seeing an iceberg for the first time; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites〞alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for and protecting human life in a place that is inhospitable to it. Along the way, she takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to bring a child into the world at this time of radical change?

What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. The Quickening teems with their voices〞with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush＊s shipmates〞in a thrilling chorus.

Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, The Quickening is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush.]]> 424 Elizabeth Rush 1571313966 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.06 2023
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]]> 15793708
Miriam Katin has the light hand of a master storyteller in this flowing, expressive, full-color masterpiece. A Holocaust survivor and mother, Katin's world is turned upside down by the news that her adult son is moving to Berlin, a city she's villainized for the past forty years. As she struggles to accept her son's decision, she visits the city twice, first to see her son and then to attend a museum gala featuring her own artwork. What she witnesses firsthand is a city coming to terms with its traumatic past, much as Katin is herself. Letting It Go is a deft and careful wry, self-deprecating anecdotes counterpoint a serious account of the myriad ways trauma inflects daily existence, both for survivors and for their families.
Katin's first book, We Are On Our Own , was a memoir of her childhood, detailing how she and her mother hid in the Hungarian countryside, disguising themselves as a peasant woman and her illegitimate child in order to escape the Nazis. The stunning story, along with Katin's gorgeous pencil work, immediately garnered acclaim in the comics world and beyond. With Letting It Go , Katin's storytelling and artistic skills allow her to explore a voice and perspective like no other found in the medium.]]> 160 Miriam Katin 1770461035 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.57 2013
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]]> 88077
The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.]]> 706 Thomas Mann Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.12 1924
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]]> 233221 Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or "Man the player" through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come.

"A happier age than ours once made bold to call our species by the name of Homo Sapiens. In the course of time we have come to realize that we are not so reasonable after all as the Eighteenth Century with its worship of reason and naive optimism, though us; "hence moder fashion inclines to designate our species asHomo Faber Man the Maker. But though faber may not be quite so dubious as sapiens it is, as a name specific of the human being, even less appropriate, seeing that many animals too are makers. There is a third function, howver, applicable to both human and animal life, and just as important as reasoning and making--namely, playing. it seems to me that next to Homo Faber, and perhaps on the same level as Homo Sapiens, Homo Ludens, Man the Player, deserves a place in our nomenclature. "--from the Foreward, by Johan Huizinga]]> 220 Johan Huizinga 0807046817 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.01 1938
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]]> 251838 284 Rainer Maria Rilke 086547477X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.36 1906
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]]> 456977 Niels Lyhne, a naturalist work, was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style."]]> 146 Jens Peter Jacobsen 1598183451 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.96 1880
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]]> 251180 296 Fredy Perlman 0934868255 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.18 1983
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]]> 695009
His starkly beautiful, musical poems are rightly regarded as being among the early twentieth century's most original poetry. From a life marred by drug addiction and breakdowns, he created work of great depth and power, brought hauntingly to life in Margitt Lehbert's close and sympathetic versions.

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was born in Salzburg, Austria, where he lived apart from spells in Vienna. After qualifying as a pharmacist he spent his year of military service in the Innsbruck garrison hospital pharmacy. In the wake of the Battle of Grodek, he died of a drug overdose in a military hospital in Krakow.

Margitt Lehbert was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to German parents in 1957. She grew up in the United States and Germany, studied in Konstanz and Iowa City, and translates into German as well as English. In 2006 she founded Edition Rugerup, which publishes mostly poetry in translation. She lives in south Sweden.]]> 190 Georg Trakl 0856462853 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.31 1914
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]]> 57287787
Based on her personal experience, and on textual and empirical evidence, she offers an intimate account of caste practices, and argues that patriarchy and Brahminism are integral to Hinduism. As such, it is misogynist and casteist, and its exclusionary imperatives are essential to both its practice - and to Hindutva, which extends this imperative to Muslims.

She reiterates that discrimination and inequality have been so internalised that their daily observance segues seamlessly into social interactions, thus crystallising and entrenching them deeply in society.]]> 169 Wandana Sonalkar 938560631X Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.75
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]]> 356171 Summa technologiae fasst die zur Zeit greifbaren Ergebnisse der futurologischen Wissenschaft zusammen und entwickelt neue, bei uns bis dahin noch nicht bekannte Konzeptionen.

Das Buch handelt von einigen m?glichen "Zuk邦nften" der menschlichen Zivilisation. Die Futurologie ist keine Wissenschaft, sondern Schlachtfeld widerstreitender Interessen. Wenn k邦nftige Entwicklungen eng mit k邦nftigen wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungen zusammenh?ngen, kommt ihre Prognose der Antizipation dieser Entdeckungen gleich. Das ist logisch unm?glich. Wir k?nnen allein die Invarianten unserer Welt aufdecken und mit ihnen die Grenze abstecken, die das M?gliche (Erlaubte) vom Unm?glichen (Verbotenen) trennt.

Was k?nnen wir aus der Welt machen, was ist m?glich? Fast alles - nur das nicht: dass sich die Menschen in einigen zigtausend Jahren 邦berlegen k?nnten: "Genug - so wie es jetzt ist, soll es von nun an immer bleiben. Ver?ndern wir nichts, erfinden und entdecken wir nichts, weil es besser, als es jetzt ist, nicht sein kann, und wenn doch, dann wollen wir es nicht".]]> 608 Stanis?aw Lem 3518371789 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.37 1964
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]]> 7573911 318 Patrick McNamara 0521889588 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.65 2009
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]]> 327051 543 Derek Parfit 019824908X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.29 1984
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]]> 206235 From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film).

When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he＊s pretty much a dead man. That＊s until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own, who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin. Knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison, Kearney accepts, and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord＊s lavish compound. To his surprise he meets Bobby Z's old flame, Elizabeth, and her son. At first, it＊s a short vacation by the pool, but when things turn bloody, the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives, with drug lords, bikers, Indians, and cops furiously chasing after them. Whether he pulls it off, whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life, makes this compelling novel a hilarious, fast-paced thriller about a con caught in a devil＊s bargain.]]> 259 Don Winslow 0307275345 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.88 1997
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]]> 20261970
"Grave of the Fireflies (鳶晶月及贏 Hotaru no Haka) is a 1967 semi-autobiographical novel by Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945."]]> 18 Akiyuki Nosaka Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.27 1967
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]]> 77538 A republic of insects and grass
The second death
The choice
Index]]> 244 Jonathan Schell 0380613255 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.92 1982
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]]> 704439 An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness.

In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium.

Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called "The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.]]> 349 J. Allan Hobson 0262582201 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.63 2001
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]]> 452150
J. Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science, while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams. He reveals how dreaming maintains and develops the mind, why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake, and why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life.]]> 176 J. Allan Hobson 0192802151 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.34 2005
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]]> 886113 978 Alexander Shulgin 0963009605 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.41 1990
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]]> 55250628 An examination of the global economic crisis from the perspective of care

Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further.

In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.

As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another〞in short, to care more〞become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by a simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.

The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? And what would it mean to seriously value care?]]> 256 Emma Dowling 1786630346 Kamakshi 0 currently-reading 3.82 2021
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]]> 51933 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 每 from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the ※insane§ and the rest of humanity.]]> 299 Michel Foucault 067972110X Kamakshi 0 currently-reading 4.08 1961
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]]> 55230100
Featuring clinical vignettes, exercises and reflexive practices, this is an accessible and intersectional guide for professionals to develop their understanding of gender-derived trauma for supporting clients. Highlighting the importance of applying a trauma-informed approach in practice, this book provides insights as to how we can work towards collective healing, for future generations and for ourselves.]]> 224 Alex Iantaffi 1787751066 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.02 2020
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]]> 35290631 'For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most excellent book is that kind of friend'. - Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw


Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confused when people talk about gender diversity?


This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a role in our relationships and interactions with family, friends, partners and strangers. It looks at practical ways people can express their own gender, and will help you to understand people whose gender might be different from your own. With activities and points for reflection throughout, this book will help people of all genders engage with gender diversity and explore the ideas in the book in relation to their own lived experiences.]]> 284 Alex Iantaffi 1785927469 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.21 2017
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]]> 51265181 An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and trauma survivors who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals〞and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with whom they organize. Trauma healing and social change are, at their best, interdependent. ? Somatics has proven to be particularly effective in addressing trauma, but in practice it typically focuses solely on the individual, failing to integrate the social conditions that create trauma in the first place. Staci K. Haines, somatic innovator and cofounder of generative somatics, invites readers to look beyond individual experiences of body and mind to examine the social, political, and economic roots of trauma〞including racism, environmental degradation, sexism, and poverty. Haines helps readers identify, understand, and address these sources of trauma to help us bridge individual healing with social transformation.]]> 449 Staci Haines 1623173884 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.25 2019
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]]> 5841632 "At the end of the show the hypnotist told his subjects, ※Awake.§

Something unusual happened."

In the short story that inspired the classic 1988 movie They Live, George "wakes up" to find that there is a great secret being kept from the world... and he's the only human to have found out the truth.

Ray Faraday Nelson is an American science fiction author and cartoonist. He was born in 1931 in Schenectady, New York (USA). His most famous work is arguably the short story Eight O'Clock in the Morning due to the film that was produced based on it, however he has also written many other critically-acclaimed works, such as Blake's Progress (1975) as well as Then Beggars Could Ride (1976).]]> 5 Ray Faraday Nelson Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.94 1963
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]]> 22609341
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a ※pink pill§ for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never exist〞but as a result of the research that＊s gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women＊s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all.

The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others＊ experiences. Because women vary, and that＊s normal.

Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman＊s arousal, desire, and orgasm.

Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman＊s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.

And Emily Nagoski can prove it.]]> 400 Emily Nagoski 1476762090 Kamakshi 0 to-read, psych 4.28 2015
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]]> 371437 Condensed Chaos provides a practical introduction to Chaos Magic, one of the fastest growing areas of Western Occultism. Through it you can change your circumstances, live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility, effect change around you, and stop living as a helpless cog in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magic leads us into exhilaration and ecstasy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate. Through magic we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.]]> 192 Phil Hine 156184117X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.01 1995
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]]> 60969 All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to be the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die...

A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico - the writer-to--be Susannah; her sister Magdalena; their father and mother. There, amid indigenous people called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they ever could have dreamed. This is a deeply sensual novel that explores the richness of female sexuality as a celebration of life, affirming the belief 'that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that forgives. And that love is both timeless and beyond'.]]> 221 Alice Walker 0753819511 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.92 1998
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]]> 391281 Murder Was the Least of His Crimes＃

The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs＃

From Harold Schechter, ※America's principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers§ (The Boston Book Review), comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, whose ghoulish crimes stunned an unsuspecting nation.

The year is 1957. Photographs would show him across the country: a slight, Midwestern man with a twisted little smile, a man who had lived for ten years in his own world of murder and depravity.

Here is the grisly true story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's ※Psycho§〞the mild-mannered farmhand bound to his domineering mother, driven into a series of gruesome and bizarre acts beyond all imagining. In chilling detail, Deviant explores the incredible career of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of American crime〞and how he turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into his own private playground of ghoulishness and blood.

From the Heartland of America comes a true story more horrifying than any movie or novel＃Harold Schechter's acclaimed true-crime chronicle＃

DEVIANT]]> 242 Harold Schechter 0671025465 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.92 1989
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]]> 397483
Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison.

The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims.

Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. - John Moe]]> 464 Erik Larson 0609608444 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.02 2003
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]]> 3176865 On the Farm.

Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killer gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police - and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton - such as from Pickton's long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. You will now learn what was behind law enforcement's refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was February 2002 before Robert William Pickton was arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime can be told.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 726 Stevie Cameron 0676975844 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.10 2010
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]]> 92553 Collected Works; letters; the autobiographical Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and transcripts of seminars, Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal sets out clearly his seminal contribution to our understanding of this controversial area.


In his introduction, Roderick Main discusses Jung's encounters with and observations of the paranormal, the influences that contributed to his theory of synchronicity, and the central ideas of the theory itself. The selections include Jung's writings on mediumistic trance phenomena, spirits and hauntings, anomalous events in the development and practice of analytical psychology, and the divinatory techniques of astrology and the I Ching. The book also features Jung's most lucid account of his theory in the form of his short essay "On Synchronicity," and a number of Jung's less-known writings on parapsychology, his astrological experiment, and the relationship between mind and body.



Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal addresses subjects that were fundamental to Jung's personal and professional development. Probing deeply into the theory of synchronicity, Roderick Main clarifies issues that have long been a source of confusion to Jung's readers.]]> 177 C.G. Jung 0691058377 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.24 1997
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]]> 6968772
McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent research in neuroscience and psychology to reveal that the difference is profound: the left hemisphere is detail oriented, while the right has greater breadth, flexibility, and generosity. McGilchrist then takes the reader on a journey through the history of Western culture, illustrating the tension between these two worlds as revealed in the thought and belief of thinkers and artists from Aeschylus to Magritte.


Emisfero destro ed emisfero sinistro: una delle poche cose che tutti sanno 豕 che il nostro cervello 豕 anatomicamente diviso in due met角. Gi角 gli antichi greci speculavano sulla possibile esistenza di un cervello bipartito, ma oggi siamo ormai al luogo comune, che tutti hanno sentito o letto da qualche parte, secondo il quale l'emisfero destro, quello "femminile", sarebbe adibito alla creativit角 e alla sensibilit角, mentre quello sinistro, pi迄 "maschile", sarebbe predisposto alla logica e alla praticit角: due modi inconciliabili di vedere il mondo. Ma qual 豕 la vera natura di questa dicotomia? Quanto c'豕 di scientifico e quanto di impreciso o fuorviante? Lo psichiatra, neuroscienziato e studioso di letteratura Iain McGilchrist ha dedicato una vita di studi a questo problema, ricavandone una tesi tanto affascinante e profonda quanto rigorosa e solida, basata su un approccio interdisciplinare che spazia da Platone a Freud, da Shakespeare a Roger Sperry, neuroscienziato vincitore del Nobel per le sue ricerche sulla specializzazione emisferica. Secondo McGilchrist, ciascun emisfero decifra la medesima realt角 in un modo coerente, ma incompatibile con quello dell'altro: l'emisfero destro fa esperienza del mondo nella sua interezza e complessit角 tralasciando i dettagli, mentre l'emisfero sinistro 豕 analitico ma per forza di cose frammentario. Quale delle due modalit角 guida il nostro comportamento? In Il padrone e il suo emissario, McGilchrist racconta l'inevitabile lotta per il potere di cui i due emisferi sono protagonisti. I segni di questo confronto sono rintracciabili nella storia della nostra civilt角, e ancora ben visibili nei contrasti che animano la cultura occidentale contemporanea. Oggi, in un mondo sempre pi迄 disincarnato e dominato dalle tecnologie digitali, sembrerebbe che l'emisfero sinistro stia prendendo pericolosamente il sopravvento su quello destro, forse cambiando per sempre il nostro modo di pensare e di comprendere la realt角 in cui viviamo.]]> 608 Iain McGilchrist 030014878X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.34 2009
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]]> 17978134 Questioning〞deeply, imaginatively, "beautifully"〞can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game-changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities. So why are we often reluctant to ask "Why?"

Berger's surprising findings reveal that even though children start out asking hundreds of questions a day, questioning "falls off a cliff" as kids enter school. In an education and business culture devised to reward rote answers over challenging inquiry, questioning isn't encouraged〞and, in fact, is sometimes barely tolerated.

And yet, as Berger shows, the most creative, successful people tend to be expert questioners. They've mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking〞and finding powerful answers. The author takes us inside red-hot businesses like Google, Netflix, IDEO, and Airbnb to show how questioning is baked into their organizational DNA. He also shares inspiring stories of artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, basement tinkerers, and social activists who changed their lives and the world around them〞by starting with a "beautiful question."
Berger explores important questions, such as:

- Why aren't we nurturing kids' natural ability to question〞and what can parents and schools do about that?

- Since questioning is a starting point for innovation, how might companies and business leaders begin to encourage and exploit it?

- And most important, how can each of us re-ignite that questioning spark〞and use inquiry as a powerful means to rethink and reinvent our lives?

A More Beautiful Question outlines a practical Why / What If / How system of inquiry that can guide you through the process of innovative questioning〞helping you find imaginative, powerful answers to your own "beautiful questions."]]> 272 Warren Berger Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.93 2014
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]]> 27311743
"What Works" is built on new insights into the human mind. It draws on data collected by companies, universities, and governments in Australia, India, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zambia, and other countries, often in randomized controlled trials. It points out dozens of evidence-based interventions that could be adopted right now and demonstrates how research is addressing gender bias, improving lives and performance. "What Works" shows what more can be done often at shockingly low cost and surprisingly high speed.]]> 385 Iris Bohnet 0674089030 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.16 2016
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]]> 203220 Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

In Spleen et id谷al," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. Tableaux Parisiens condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. Le Vin centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of Fleurs du Mal while rebellion is at the heart of 賊谷措棗梭喧梗.]]> 365 Charles Baudelaire 0879234628 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.23 1857
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]]> 26577009
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.]]> 446 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1297591798 Kamakshi 0 to-read 2.67 1836
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]]> 783310 Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical modes of discourse. The sections on C谷line, for example, are indispensable reading for those interested in this writer and place him within a context that is both illuminating and of general interest." -Paul de Man]]> 219 Julia Kristeva 0231053479 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.07 1980
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]]> 395435 The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.

With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist and Psycho, Creed analyses the seven `faces' of the monstrous-feminine: archaic mother, monstrous womb, vampire, witch, possessed body, monstrous mother and castrator. Her argument that man fears woman as castrator, rather than as castrated, questions not only Freudian theories of sexual difference but existing theories of spectatorship and fetishism, providing a provocative re-reading of classical and contemporary film and theoretical texts.]]> 216 Barbara Creed 0415052599 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.08 1993
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]]> 150999 464 Fritjof Capra 0553345729 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.14 1982
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]]> 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.39 1946
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]]> 5439288 167 Ren谷 Dubos 0231024932 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.00 1961
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]]> 694929 352 Heinz R. Pagels 0553347101 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.16 1988
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]]> 54218 The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutions, or score on extremely narrow tests. How did scientists decide that intelligence was unipolar and quantifiable? Why did the standard keep changing over time? Gould's answer is clear and simple: power maintains itself. European men of the 19th century, even before Darwin, saw themselves as the pinnacle of creation and sought to prove this assertion through hard measurement. When one measure was found to place members of some "inferior" group such as women or Southeast Asians over the supposedly rightful champions, it would be discarded and replaced with a new, more comfortable measure. The 20th-century obsession with numbers led to the institutionalization of IQ testing and subsequent assignment to work (and rewards) commensurate with the score, shown by Gould to be not simply misguided--for surely intelligence is multifactorial--but also regressive, creating a feedback loop rewarding the rich and powerful. The revised edition includes a scathing critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve, taking them to task for rehashing old arguments to exploit a new political wave of uncaring belt tightening. It might not make you any smarter, but The Mismeasure of Man will certainly make you think.--Rob Lightner

This edition is revised and expanded, with a new introduction]]> 446 Stephen Jay Gould 0393314251 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.06 1982
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]]> 101882
※When Women＊s Studies is joined with the study of girls development it becomes clearer why adolescence is a critical time in girls＊ lives求a time when girls are in danger of losing their voices and thus losing connection with others, and also a time when girls, gaining voice and knowledge, are in danger of knowing the unseen and speaking the unspoken and thus losing connection with what is commonly taken to be ＆reality.＊ This crisis of connection in girls＊ lives at adolescence links the psychology of women with the most basic questions about the nature of relationships and the definition of reality. Girls questions about relationships and about reality, however, also tug at women＊s silences.§]]> 334 Gilligan 0674540417 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.00 1989
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]]> 241823
In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.]]> 537 Clarissa Pinkola Est谷s 0345409876 Kamakshi 5 4.12 1992
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]]> 13592023 312 Liz Sanders 9063692846 Kamakshi 0 4.18 2012
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]]> 78287 356 Rebecca Solnit 1859843816 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.91 2001
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]]> 13582856
Nach dem Sturz der Mauer stehen 邦berall in Berlin ungenutzte Fl?chen und Geb?ude bereit, mit neuem Leben gef邦llt zu werden. Die Besitzverh?ltnisse sind ungekl?rt, und so erobert die Szene aus beiden Teilen der Stadt die neuen Freir?ume. Clubs, Galerien, Ateliers und Studios entstehen 每 oft nur f邦r wenige Wochen. Bald schon ist Berlin Epizentrum einer neuen Kultur, lockt mit Clubs wie dem Tresor und dem E-Werk Tausende Anh?nger aus aller Welt an. Sie tanzen in Gasmaske oder Schwei?erbrille die Nacht hindurch zum Pre?lufthammersound bisher unbekannter DJs aus Detroit. Unter ihnen auch Schriftsteller, K邦nstler, Fotografen und Designer. Schnell w?chst Techno zu einer Bewegung der Massen, die in der Loveparade ihre schillerndste Bl邦te treibt.

DJs, Clubmacher, Musikproduzenten, T邦rsteher und Szenegestalten, Menschen aus der Mitte der Bewegung und von ihren R?ndern, sie alle kommen in Klang der Familie zu Wort und lassen eine Zeit lebendig werden, in der alles m?glich schien.]]> 423 Felix Denk 3518463209 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.26 2012
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]]> 202701 107 Doug Richmond 0806515597 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.28 1986
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]]> 36347874 Miss Subways is one woman＊s trippy, mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love. On the way, Emer will battle natural and supernatural forces to find her true voice, power, and destiny. A fairy tale of love lost and regained, Miss Subways is also a love letter to the city that enchants us all: New York.]]> 309 David Duchovny 0374210403 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.66 2018
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]]> 34460583 New York Times?bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Donald Miller＊s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides readers with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching readers the seven universal story points all humans respond to; the real reason customers make purchases; how to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.]]> 228 Donald Miller 0718033329 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.25 2017
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]]> 6369945 320 Alina Wheeler 0470401427 Kamakshi 0 design-and-graphics 4.13 2003
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]]> 55145257
To what depths is a man willing to go to hold on to a dream? The Clerk tells a story that happened yesterday, but that still hasn＊t happened, and yet is happening now. A story we didn＊t even notice because we＊re too tied up in our own jobs, salaries, appearances. This novel embraces an anti-utopia, a world of Ballard but also of Dostoyevsky.]]> 138 Guillermo Saccomanno 1948830256 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.67 2010
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]]> 15808089
Early chapters explain how to draw accurate perspective grids and ellipses that in later chapters provide the foundation for more complex forms. The research and design processes used to generate visual concepts are demonstrated, making it much easier for you to draw things never-before-seen!

Best of all, more than 25 pages can be scanned via a smartphone or tablet using the new Design Studio Press app, which link to video tutorials for that section of the book!

With a combined 26 years of teaching experience, Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling bring you the lessons and techniques they have used to help thousands of their students become professional artists and designers.

This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to learn, or teaches others, how to draw.]]> 208 Scott Robertson 1933492732 Kamakshi 0 to-read, design-and-graphics 4.56 2012
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]]> 53398908
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world

In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.

Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.]]> 272 Frank Wilczek 0735223793 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.85 2021
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]]> 9245232


Russ Harris offers a surprising solution to low self-confidence, shyness, and insecurity: rather than trying to "get over" our fears, he says, the secret is to form a new and wiser relationship with them. Paradoxically, it's only when we stop struggling against our fearfulness that we begin to find lasting freedom from it.



Drawing on the techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a cutting-edge form of cognitive-behavioral therapy, The Confidence Gap explains how to



? Free yourself from common misconceptions about what confidence is and how to build it
? Transform your relationship with fear and anxiety
? Clarify your core values and use them as your inspiration and motivation
? Use mindfulness to effectively handle negative thoughts and feelings
]]> 292 Russ Harris 1849016887 Kamakshi 0 to-read, psych 4.01 2010
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]]> 56465 Unwarranted fear is a curse.
Learn how to tell the difference.

A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust〞and act on〞our gut instincts.

In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger〞before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love, including how to act when approached by a stranger, when you should fear someone close to you, what to do if you are being stalked, how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls, the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person, and more. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss. It might just save your life.
]]> 352 Gavin de Becker 0747538352 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.16 1997
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]]> 566083 ?
In this engaging commentary, the distinguished analyst and author Marie-Louise von Franz shows how the Feminine reveals itself in fairy tales of German, Russian, Scandinavian, and Eskimo origin, including familiar stories such as Sleeping Beauty , Snow White and Rose Red, and Rumpelstiltskin . Some tales, she points out, offer insights into the psychology of women〞while others reflect the problems and characteristics of the anima, the inner femininity of men.
?
Drawing upon her extensive knowledge of Jungian psychology, Dr. von Franz discusses the archetypes and symbolic themes that appear in fairy tales as well as dreams and fantasies, draws practical advice from the tales, and demonstrates its application in case studies from her analytical practice.]]> 240 Marie-Louise von Franz 157062609X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.32 1972
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]]> 272642 RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is a celebration of what happened next.

Post-punk bands like PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Fall and The Human League dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution. The post-punk groups were fervent modernists; whether experimenting with electronics and machine rhythm or adapting ideas from dub reggae and disco, they were totally confident they could invent a whole new future for music.]]> 752 Simon Reynolds 0571215696 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.06 2005
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]]> 22616 A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.

The System of Objects is a tour de force〞a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the ※new technical order§ as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts ※modern§ and ※traditional§ functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or ※marginal§ objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the ※schizofunctional.§ Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.

The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of ※expenditure§ and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the ※technological society§ of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle.]]> 224 Jean Baudrillard 1844670538 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.06 1968
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]]> 380994 A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves.]]> 234 Roland Barthes 0374521611 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.43 1977
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]]> 23070 304 Umberto Eco 0253208696 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.15 1990
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]]> 22613 Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra〞the copy without an original〞and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.

Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Sheila Glaser is an editor at Artforum magazine.]]> 164 Jean Baudrillard 0472065211 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.01 1981
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]]> 6341066
The authors have traveled thousands of miles in a country they know intimately to gather information and photographs of tribal and folk textiles woven for use within the family, as well as of workshop production in villages and towns. They first examine the cultural background to the the history, from the earliest civilizations to Post-Independence; the materials, including silks, cottons, and wool; and the techniques of weaving, printing, painting, and tie-dye.

The second part of the book comprises a detailed region-by-region account of traditional textile production, including western India, famous for its dyed and printed cloth, appliqu谷, and beadwork, plus other centers in the north, south, and east, and in Sri Lanka. An array of 365 photographs, 335 in color, including over one hundred new images, provides an unrivaled visual presentation of the textiles. The reference section includes information on technical terms, a list of museums and galleries, and an updated bibliography. 365 photographs, 335 in full-color]]> 208 John Gillow 0500514321 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.38 2008
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]]> 2455517
Invaluable resource for textile designers, historians, and specialists as the book gives detailed analysis on every aspect of the Sari.

Based entirely on the knowledge of the weavers and what they have carried as an inheritance from past generations.

Tells you where to go to purchase a particular sari and who to go and see
The sari is the most representative apparel of India, worn in a variety of ways. The sari is a fabric-length of varying densities in its body, borders and end pieces often woven by combining a range of cottons and silks in colours and patterns that are constantly evolving. Saris is an exhaustive overview of this fascinating unstitched garment and a cutting-edge documentation of design and all that supports it socially, culturally and economically. Traveling district-by-district, village-by-village, the book explores an entire spectrum of traditional weaver and printer settlements in fourteen sari-producing states of India. Thus emerges the first comprehensive compilation of the whole range and scale of the the structures, designs, colours, the format and technology that make up the lingua of the sari. For the first time, this book offers a step-by-step guide for at least 108 ways of draping the sari, through a series of line drawings and colour photographs. A vivid account of how saris come into being for the lay reader and the specialist - be they textilists, designers, scholars or developers who will find this book equally engaging.

Preface; Credits; The An Introduction; Kerala; Karnataka; Goa; Maharashtra; Gujarat; Madhya Pradesh; Chhattisgarh; Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand; Bihar; Jharkhand; West Bengal; Orissa; Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu; Glossary; Bibliography.]]> 276 Rta Kapur Chishti 8174363742 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.08 2007
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]]> 40958
There isn't a business in America that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products, and processes. At many companies, being first with a concept and first to market are critical just to survive. In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, general manager of the Silicon Valley based design firm IDEO, takes readers behind the scenes of this wildly imaginative and energized company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

IDEO doesn't buy into the myth of the lone genius working away in isolation, waiting for great ideas to strike. Kelley believes everyone can be creative, and the goal at his firm is to tap into that wellspring of creativity in order to make innovation a way of life. How does it do that? IDEO fosters an atmosphere conducive to freely expressing ideas, breaking the rules, and freeing people to design their own work environments. IDEO's focus on teamwork generates countless breakthroughs, fueled by the constant give-and-take among people ready to share ideas and reap the benefits of the group process. IDEO has created an intense, quick-turnaround, brainstorm-and-build process dubbed "the Deep Dive."

In entertaining anecdotes, Kelley illustrates some of his firm's own successes (and joyful failures), as well as pioneering efforts at other leading companies. The book reveals how teams research and immerse themselves in every possible aspect of a new product or service, examining it from the perspective of clients, consumers, and other critical audiences.

Kelley takes the reader through the IDEO problem-solving method:

> Carefully observing the behavior or "anthropology" of the people who will be using a product or service

> Brainstorming with high-energy sessions focused on tangible results

> Quickly prototyping ideas and designs at every step of the way

> Cross-pollinating to find solutions from other fields

> Taking risks, and failing your way to success

> Building a "Greenhouse" for innovation

IDEO has won more awards in the last ten years than any other firm of its kind, and a full half-hour Nightline presentation of its creative process received one of the show's highest ratings. The Art of Innovation will provide business leaders with the insights and tools they need to make their companies the leading-edge, top-rated stars of their industries.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 320 Tom Kelley 0385499841 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.95 2001
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Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions.

Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.]]> 382 Emma Tarlo 0226789764 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.88 1996
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]]> 4979 A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut＊s passions.]]> 145 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 081297736X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.10 2005
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What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work〞images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more〞to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics.

In answering the question of what it means to be Black and alive, Black Futures opens a prismatic vision of possibility for every reader.]]> 544 Kimberly Drew 039918113X Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.58 2020
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]]> 13406893 244 Rahul Jain 8189738801 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.00 2012
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]]> 3726230 202 Nicholas Saunders 0950162809 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.36 1970
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]]> 19026536 Writing Under the Raj is the first study to challenge the long-held critical assumption that the rape of colonizing women by colonized men was the first, or the only, rape script in British colonial literature.? Nancy Paxton asks why rape disappears in British literature about English domestic life in the 1790s and charts its reappearance in British literature about India written between 1830 and 1947. Paxton displays the hybrid qualities of familiar novels like Kipling＊s Kim and Forster＊s A Passage to India by situating them in a richly detailed cultural context that reveals the dynamic relationship between metropolitan British literature and novels written by men and women who lived in the colonial contact zone of British India throughout this period.
Drawing on current feminist and gender theory as well as a wide range of historical and cultural sources, Paxton identifies four different ※scripts§ about interracial and intraracial rape that appear in novels about India during the period of British rule.? Surveying more than thirty canonized and popular Anglo-Indian novels, Paxton shows how the treatment of rape reflects basic conflicts in the social and sexual contracts defining British and Indian women＊s relationship to the nation state throughout the period.? This study reveals how and why novels written after the Indian Uprising of 1857 popularized the theme of English women victimized by Indian men.? Paxton demonstrates how all these novels reflect unresolved ideological and symbolic conflicts in British ideas about sex, violence, and power.?]]> 356 Nancy L. Paxton 0813560454 Kamakshi 0 to-read 5.00 1999
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]]> 119688 87 Susan Sontag 0374520739 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.98 1978
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"If we could truly depict women's desire, we might come to understand how it secretly rules the world." 求 Erica Jong, A Woman's Right To Pleasure

Iconic and never-before-published works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Marlene Dumas and Alice Neel run alongside original essays by New York Times best selling authors Erica Jong and Roxane Gay, and contributions from photographers like Cindy Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems, Marilyn Minter and Nan Goldin, as well as by emerging talent such as Mickalene Thomas, Martine Gutierrez and Harley Weir in this groundbreaking art book that sees the most critical female voices of the last century explore the idea of pleasure 求 and empowerment 求 in all its forms.

Artwork by: Nina Chanel Abney, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Cass Bird, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Arvida Bystrom, Amanda Charchian, Judy Chicago, Maisie Cousins, Renee Cox, Vaginal Davis, Tamara De Lempicka, Annique Delphine, Suzy Kellems Dominik, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Leonor Fini, Monica Kim Garza, Nan Goldin, Martine Gutierrez, Andrea Hasler, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Ilsley, Natalie Krim, Friedl Kubelka, Dani Lessnau, Natalia LL, Sarah Lucas, Sally Mann, Lena Marquise, Andrea Mary Marshall, Marilyn Minter, Sophia Narrett, Alice Neel, Reka Nyari, Georgia O'Keeffe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Meret Oppenheim, Signe Pierce, Alexandra Rubinstein, Faith Ringgold, Jenny Saville, Carolee Schneemann, Tschabalala Self, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Sonia Sieff, Penny Slinger, Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, Mickalene Thomas, Betty Tompkins, Ellen Von Unwerth, Sophia Wallace, Carrie Mae Weems, Harley Weir and Luo Yang, with an exclusive coloring book by RIP Bambi.

Forewords by: Roxane Gay and Erica Jong]]> 270 Blackbook Publications 0578613832 Kamakshi 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 349614 88 Herbert Marcuse 0807015199 Kamakshi 0 to-read 3.98 1977
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]]> 253076 110 Ivan Illich 0714509744 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.05 1973
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Throughout this book, Alla Kholmatova, previously a lead designer at FutureLearn, will share an approach and the key qualities of effective, enduring design systems. It＊s based on Alla＊s experiences, case-studies from AirBnB, Atlassian, Eurostar, TED, and Sipgate, plus 18 months of research and interviews 〞 all attempting to figure out what works and what doesn＊t work in real-life products. It may not answer every question, but it will help you figure out just the right strategy for establishing and evolving a design system in your organization.]]> 288 Alla Kholmatova Kamakshi 0 to-read, design-and-graphics 4.14
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Thinking with Type is divided into three sections: letter, text, and grid. Each section begins with an easy-to-grasp essay that reviews historical, technological, and theoretical concepts, and is then followed by a set of practical exercises that bring the material covered to life. Sections conclude with examples of work by leading practitioners that demonstrate creative possibilities (along with some classic no-no's to avoid).]]> 176 Ellen Lupton 1568984480 Kamakshi 0 to-read 4.09 2004
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