14 May, 2012
by rgonzalezr
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will witness the making of history from its edge, dressing in the flamboyant fashions of each day, following passing customs, and socialising with celebrated artists and writers. Orlando’s journey will also be an internal one – he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation, Orlando is a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
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11 April, 2012
by rgonzalezr
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes‘s thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still.
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14 October, 2011
by rgonzalezr
The Fourth Way is the most comprehensive statement thus far published of the ideas taught by the late P.D. Ouspensky. Consisting of verbatim records of his oral teaching from 1921 to 1946, it gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of G. I. Gurdjieff’s teachings, which Gurdjieff presented in the form of raw materials, Ouspensky’s specific task having been to put them together as a systematic whole. Just as Tertium Organum deals with a new mode of thinking, so The Fourth Way is concerned with a new way of living. It shows a way of inner development to be followed under the ordinary conditions of life — as distinct from the three traditional ways that call for retirement from the world: those of the fakir, the monk, and the yogi.
The Fourth Way is a guide for those who seek a true way of inner growth under conditions open to the men and women of today. The Fourth Way is a guide for those who seek a true way of inner growth under conditions open to the men and women of today.
Publisher: Vintage (February 12, 1971)
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15 August, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: CCV (June 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099541882
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly pursued by ‘demons’. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is almost unrecognisable. Lindman, a police officer on extended sick leave, hears of the death of his former colleague and, to take his mind off his own problems, decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers, to his horror and disbelief, is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district, and one which seems impossible to link to Molin’s death.
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15 August, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 704 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 1st PAPERBACK edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099741512
John Pilger, like Noam Chomsky, is one of the few writers and public figures who have the tenacity, courage and intelligence to see the world beyond the comfort zone of CNN, the mall and the racist sterotype. As with his previous book Heroes Pilger takes his readers around the world and in each of the countries he visits he calmly and rationally exposes the self serving hypocracy of power. He his book moves from Australian double standards, to the undermining of the progressive English media, the devastating brutality of SLORC in Burma and Suharto in Indonesia and on to the failure of Suharto’s friend, Nelson Mandela, to get to grips with the appalling legacy of apartheid.But Pilger also tells us some great stories about the best of the human spirit. He celebrates the courage and integrity of people like the nobel prize winning Aung San Suu Kyi and the four working class English women who heroically destroyed a British war plane which was about to be transported to Indonesia.
This book is not only a call to an authentic consciousness that has the courage to sees things the way they really are. It’s also an inspiring call to action. Read it.
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10 August, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (May 7, 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679732276
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Wojnarowicz is a controversial contemporary artist who drew national attention when the NEA withdrew a grant for the artist’s gallery, Artist’s Space, in response to the lacerating essay he wrote about AIDS to accompany the show. He later sued the Reverend Donald Wildmon for copyright infringement and misrepresentation for using excerpts from his works when testifying before Congress. The book deals with subjects that arouse varied responses but rarely indifference. This very angry young man, the product of a lifetime of abuse inflicted by himself as well as others, is a traveler on the road to emotional and physical disintegration. Neither an autobiography nor essays, the work consists of segments, of incidents and images, some outrageous, some moving. It is an attempt to afford the reader a glimpse into outsider society but does so in a way that seems to aim more at alienation than amity. There is great pain here and a plea for compassion, but the rage and fear of which he accuses the establishment seems as much an echo of his own voice as it is of outside reality.
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20 July, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 1st Thus. edition (July 11, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375708278
Torqued by drama and taut with suspense, this absorbing narrative of the 1900 hurricane that inundated Galveston, Tex., conveys the sudden, cruel power of the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Told largely from the perspective of Isaac Cline, the senior U.S. Weather Bureau official in Galveston at the time, the story considers an era when “the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.” As barometers plummet and wind gauges are plucked from their moorings, Larson (Lethal Passage) cuts cinematically from the eerie “eyewall” of the hurricane to the mundane hubbub of a lunchroom moments before it capitulates to the arriving winds, from the neat pirouette of Cline’s house amid rising waters to the bridge of the steamship Pensacola, tossed like flotsam on the roiling seas. Most intriguingly, Larson details the mistakes that led bureau officials to dismiss warnings about the storm, which killed over 6000 and destroyed a third of the island city. The government’s weather forecasting arm registered not only temperature and humidity but also political climate, civic boosterism and even sibling rivalries. America’s patronizing stance toward Cuba, for instance, shut down forecasts from Cuban meteorologists, who had accurately predicted the Galveston storm’s course and true scale, even as U.S. weather officials issued mollifying bulletins calling for mere rain and high winds. Larson expertly captures the power of the storm itself and the ironic, often catastrophic consequences of the unpredictable intersection of natural force and human choice.
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20 July, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 8th edition (1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0676971393
Many have praised the opening of this novel, and rightfully so, but that is only the first step in Ian McEwan’s masterful creation. Told from the perspective of Joe Rose, a frustrated scientist turned journalist, the story captures our attention and never lets go. We share Joe’s despair as the balloon rocks in the wind in the opening scene; we shiver as he finds himself being stalked by a delusional, obsessive intruder who thinks Joe is the love of his life. But Joe doesn’t seem to trust himself entirely, and McEwan gives us plenty of reasons to distrust him even more, creating a tension in the narrative that makes us read on with a growing sense of impending calamity. In-between, McEwan explores the dichotomy of science and religion, logic and intuition, sanity and delusion. The writing is beautiful, as sharp and witty as we’ve come to expect of McEwan, but far more intricate and thoughtful. All that and a page-turner? It’s a near-perfect read.
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31 March, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Vintage (May 2, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099286750
‘Tim Flannery’s account of North America from the end of the dinosaurs to the rise of Hollywood makes a thrilling, beautifully written story. It will fascinate Americans and non-Americans alike.’ Jared Diamond
An account of the ecological history of North America over the last 65 million years, from the arrival of the largest asteroid ever to hit the Earth, through the evolution of North America’s landscape, mountains, forests, prairies, volcanoes, and rivers, its climate and flora and fauna, and the Burgess shale, through the story of the Native Americans to the arrival of the European invaders.
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