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Book Club Journal

Author : Sanne Vliegenthart

Publisher : Mitchell Beazley

Page : 81 pages

File Size : 25,72 MB

Release : 2021-05-06

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1784727741

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Book Description

Books connect us: we rave about our favourites to anyone who will listen, pass on our well-thumbed copies to friends and get together in book clubs to chat through our opinions This ebook will allow you to gather your thoughts on the books you have read, with 50 templates to download and fill in. You will also find advice on how to organize a successful book club, pick your discussion topics and make the most of your reading time, plus 200 book recommendations arranged into 20 themed reading lists, carefully curated by Sanne Vliegenthart, book reviewer and creator of hugely popular book videos at Books and Quills. Find Sanne on Twitter, Instagram and Youtube @booksandquills This ebook is not an exact replica of the physical book. All templates from the book are available as downloadable pdfs to print and fill in.



The Kite Runner

Author : Khaled Hosseini

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 29,29 MB

Release : 2011-09-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 140882485X

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Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.



A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author : Khaled Hosseini

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 20,72 MB

Release : 2008-09-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 074758589X

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A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love



The Mass Ornament

Author : Siegfried Kracauer

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 23,35 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780674551633

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The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.



Tactical Biopolitics

Author : Beatriz Da Costa

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 535 pages

File Size : 16,11 MB

Release : 2010-08-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0262514915

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Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences. Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorizing, and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, contributions to this volume focus on the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences and explore the possibility of public participation in scientific discourse, drawing on research and practice in art, biology, critical theory, anthropology, and cultural studies. After framing the subject in terms of both biology and art, Tactical Biopolitics discusses such topics as race and genetics (with contributions from leading biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins); feminist bioscience; the politics of scientific expertise; bioart and the public sphere (with an essay by artist Claire Pentecost); activism and public health (with an essay by Treatment Action Group co-founder Mark Harrington); biosecurity after 9/11 (with essays by artists' collective Critical Art Ensemble and anthropologist Paul Rabinow); and human-animal interaction (with a framing essay by cultural theorist Donna Haraway). Contributors Gaymon Bennett, Larry Carbone, Karen Cardozo, Gary Cass, Beatriz da Costa, Oron Catts, Gabriella Coleman, Critical Art Ensemble, Gwen D'Arcangelis, Troy Duster, Donna Haraway, Mark Harrington, Jens Hauser, Kathy High, Fatimah Jackson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan King, Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin, Rachel Mayeri, Sherie McDonald, Claire Pentecost, Kavita Philip, Paul Rabinow, Banu Subramanian, subRosa, Abha Sur, Samir Sur, Jacqueline Stevens, Eugene Thacker, Paul Vanouse, Ionat Zurr



Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse

Author : Donna J. Haraway

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 25,56 MB

Release : 2018-06-27

Category : Art

ISBN : 1351399233

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One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg Manifesto," she received the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000, a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science. Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts.



Staying with the Trouble

Author : Donna J. Haraway

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 10,34 MB

Release : 2016-08-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0822373785

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.



Cultural Spaces and Design

Author : Regine Halter

Publisher :

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 30,42 MB

Release : 2019-10

Category : Art

ISBN : 9783906897318

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Throughout the discussions about globalisation and design, what has been missing until now are deliberations regarding necessary changes towards a design education which puts conceptual acting in the context of global movements and problem situations. This publication pleads for a revision of design education. It addresses students, teachers, and design practitioners. On the basis of concrete examples, concepts, methods and tools are presented for discussion. They can open up new directions and possibilities of design education. Consequently, this book focuses on design students experiences and reflections as contributions to a design education understood as a school for differentiated perception. The local level the respective Cultural Space is appreciated as the actual hot spot of globalisation. The book offers reports, case studies, analyses, and reflections by lecturers, artists, and students about their working experiences in Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Nigeria, Botswana, South Sudan, India, Canada, Albania, the USA and others.



Wooden Eyes

Author : Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 46,82 MB

Release : 2001

Category : History

ISBN : 9780231119603

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Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.



Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Author : Sandro Mezzadra

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 28,67 MB

Release : 2013-08-07

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0822355035

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Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various geographical scales, illustrating their theoretical arguments with illuminating case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and elsewhere. Mezzadra and Neilson approach the border not only as a research object but also as an epistemic framework. Their use of the border as method enables new perspectives on the crisis and transformations of the nation-state, as well as powerful reassessments of political concepts such as citizenship and sovereignty.