John Smith, Echos, Paris, Les Curies, 1972 The book presents the story story of an old lady who – left alone by her son who was at work – felt the spleen and turned on the radio. John Smith offers to the reader a detailed account on the two hours that the old lady (her [...]
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Stanislav Grof, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, Sunny Albany, 2000 Stanislav Grof is a big naive. In a monist and materialist world, he seems convinced that the consciousness exists. In the history of philosophy, consciousness was defined as the thing that makes us aware. For Descartes – the most authorized voice [...]
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Guy de Maupassant, Our Heart, Baltimore, The Johns H Press, 2006 The book is an account of the sensations and feelings of a pair of siamese twins. The plot is placed in France, during the 1740s. The story’s heroes are Philomène and Elodie, the children of a baker – Paupine – from Rue du Faubourg [...]
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Rose Perault, The History of Texas by a Texan, Paris, Livres de Moche, 1996 Monograph The book begins in 1619, in virginia, and ends in 1985, when NBC was proposing an universally successful show, namely Dallas.
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Tom Hodgkinson, How to be idle We can say, without fearing of being accused of exaggeration, that Tom Hodgkinson’s is a genuine celebration of the spirit. After having been taught, from Engels on, that work turned the monkey into man, we joyfully discover that someone has the guts to make an eulogy of the afternoons [...]
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