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Hatred is typically characterized as ugly, destructive and, above all, the political tool and dominant emotion of intransigent right-wingers. But is something important lost in this simplistic depiction? Don’t those engaged in anticolonial, feminist, or class struggles—the very people who, in mainstream narratives, are usually portrayed as victims and objects of hate—have just reasons for feeling hatred?

Jean Maillet connaît ses classiques ! Il part à la recherche des origines parfois surprenantes des expressions préférées de nos grands-mères. Celles qui ont bercé notre enfance et qui nous charment encore aujourd'hui par leur désuétude et leur originalité. Ethnologue de la langue française, il mène l'enquête au fil des pages pour nous révéler ce qu'était un patachon, un as de pique ou de la gnognotte. Malicieuses, imagées, ces expressions sans âge font encore notre bonheur quotidien et témoignent de la richesse de notre langue.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band “By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have known for years: that...

Vous êtes persuadé que Jésus est né un. 25 décembre, que l’eau bout à 100 °C, que les baleines crachent de l’eau, que les chats retombent systématiquement sur leurs pattes, que Cléopâtre était Égyptienne, que le soleil se. lève à l’est ?... Tout cela est parfaitement FAUX ! Ce livre vous offre un tour d’horizon complet des idées reçues les plus ancrées dans nos esprits. Attendez-vous à être surpris par ces multiples révélations et démentis qui dépoussièrent allègrement notre grenier des fausses vérités. Lydia Mammar nous ouvre les yeux avec précision et conviction.

Que vous ayez déjà vu treize fois chacune des dix saisons, ou bien que vous l’ayez découverte récemment et soyez encore dans votre premier visionnage des 236 épisodes qui constituent cette série culte, ce livre est fait pour vous ! Car oui ! Les vies apparemment ordinaires de nos six héros new-yorkais regorgent de questionnements philosophiques.

Por este libro pasan aproximadamente unos trescientos personajes. Sin duda son muchísimos más los que han pasado por el histórico Café Gijón del Paseo Recoletos. Pero no todos tienen méritos suficientes para aparecer en este relato memorial del autor que es, probablemente, arbitrario y a merced de los designios no siempre objetivos ni neutrales del mismo. Para pertenecer a la tribu del Gijón hay que haber sido un bohemio cuando todavía existía la bohemia, tener detrás a la policía o, por lo menos, a la dueña de la pensión en que habitabas y que no veía la forma de cobrar.

Cuando el profesor Amit Ray quiso convencer a su decano para que le permitiera incluir "Los Simpson" en sus clases argumentó: "Las ideas ya no se escriben en papel. Se escriben en pantallas". Sobre todo en pantallas de televisión, cabría apostillar, ya que son las series de televisión, sobre todo las estadounidenses, las que han propiciado un debate y un diálogo a través de los medios de comunicación, en particular foros, webs y blogs de Internet, en el que se plantean cuestiones tan candentes como la reforma del sistema de pensiones ("El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca"), las relaciones entre padres e hijos ("Los Simpson").

Llegar a pisar la Luna, alcanzar el Polo Sur, ser capaces de captar y reproducir la voz o poder mandar un correo electrónico desde Barcelona hasta un bar remoto en la selva de Borneo en pocos segundos son logros de la humanidad que tienen un denominador común: la voluntad del Homo sapiens para cruzar fronteras que a muchos congéneres les habían parecido infranqueables. La idea de frontera implica que hay un más allá de ella; también sugiere una diferencia entre lo conocido y lo ignoto, entre la seguridad de lo cierto y el miedo de la incertidumbre.

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life. This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in...

How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

Michael Crawley immerses himself in various endurance cultures and asks what makes enduring together meaningful to people. He learns how Nepalese runners face different challenges depending on their location up a mountain, from those in the lowlands and ‘middle hills’ to Sherpas from the Solu Khumbu, and observes Tarahumara ultrarunners’ ability to cover extreme distances on highly technical terrain. But he also delves into the history of Dance Marathons, six-day pedestrianism races in Madison Square Gardens and the unique Enhanced Games.

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria’s Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe “good looks” were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse?

At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours.

Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an...

"Talk to the hand, ’cause the face ain’t listening," the saying goes. When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society become so thoughtless? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says it’s now reached the boiling point. Taking on the boorish behavior...

El orientalismo, considerado en su generalidad, nos enfrenta a problemas que conciernen directamente a la identidad de Occidente, más allá de cualquier discurso estereotipado, en particular al deseo latente de retornar a los dominios de la irracionalidad o a la pulsión jerárquica, entrevistos en el Oriente. Al fin y al cabo, como demuestra el «orientalismo doméstico», el Oriente es parte de nosotros mismos, de nuestra imagen reflejada en el espejo de lo imaginario a través de diferentes medios expresivos, que todos han tomado la perspectiva como forma de contemplarlo en la distancia.

Dal primo avventurarsi su due gambe nelle pianure africane alla produzione di pitture rupestri, piramidi, bastimenti, parlamenti e molto altro: tanto si è scritto sul cammino evolutivo dell'umanità grazie al lavoro di paleontologi, archeologi e genetisti. Ciascuno di loro ha messo un tassello a formare un quadro generale della nostra storia.

Il nostro corpo racconta molte cose se può manifestarsi con libertà. I pantaloni con cui Marlene Dietrich arrivò a Parigi nel 1930 fecero gridare allo scandalo perché non solo parlavano di una sessualità dominatrice, ma di una donna che attingeva agli stereotipi del potere maschile diventando una vampira di energie invece che una donatrice devota. Il seno turgido che sbocciava dall'abito di Marilyn Monroe mentre cantava al suo amante "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", alludeva a una seduzione di nuovo conio, ribelle alle convenzioni del matrimonio, della ragion di Stato e della donna per bene.

A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms - what they are, why they’re such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they’re headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google's search algorithm is now a more closely guarded commercial secret than the recipe for Coca-Cola.

Elements of Wit is an engaging audiobook that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone - introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants - can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort... or at least be a little bit more interesting.