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Five Books 10 h
NEW interview: Marking the 75th anniversary of liberation, Mary Fulbrook, historian and winner of the prize, recommends essential reading for understanding the crimes against humanity that occurred at Auschwitz and its aftermath.
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Five Books 4 h
“How will we solve anything, in the world of people, if all we can do is point, sneer and ostracise?”
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Five Books 8 h
“Somebody complained Picasso’s picture of Gertrude Stein didn’t look like her, the response was ‘It will’.” Philosopher Noël Carroll chooses the best books on the philosophical questions posed by art.
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Five Books 10 h
NEW interview: Marking the 75th anniversary of liberation, Mary Fulbrook, historian and winner of the prize, recommends essential reading for understanding the crimes against humanity that occurred at Auschwitz and its aftermath.
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Five Books 12 h
Aha! Here's a fun one. What book would you never want to see recommended on Five Books? Must be one that you've actually read and hated. Reasons why encouraged.
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Five Books 12 h
"Google you can also think of as a form of mass collaboration – there is a kind of underlying wisdom of crowds that gives us all information."
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Five Books 13 h
"In fact, just thinking happy thoughts is quite dangerous a lot of the time." Professor Elaine Fox, one of the world’s leading experimental psychologists, picks the five best books on optimism.
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Five Books 16 h
“It’s been suggested that Gertrude Stein might have been stoned when she wrote Tender Buttons”, says. Happy birthday to Stein, born in 1874
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Five Books 17 h
From a brave account by the Stanford rape case survivor Chanel Miller to New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow's gripping tale of investigating the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it's been a golden year for autobiography
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Five Books 19 h
The best books on the history of science, a by scientist and historian Matthew Cobb ()
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It’s America’s favourite sport—at its best, a wonderful, thrilling spectacle; at its worst, legitimised violence exacting a terrible price on players. The Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter takes us inside the dark heart of American football.
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“I often say when I’m teaching logic, ‘Don’t use this at home or you’ll end up unhappily single.’”
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @IamDarrenD
A very good book!
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Darren D'Addario 2. velj
When I consider the darkness of American football, I immediately think of Frederick Exley's novel "A Fan's Notes." More about the scary side of masculinity in the U.S. than the sport itself, it's a harrowing reading experience.
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“In football, beauty, violence and sex are mixed. The game is beautiful to watch in replay—there is violence in every play and then they cut to half-naked dancing girls shaking pom-poms. It’s a uniquely American television spectacle.”
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“What’s interesting about the claustrophobia [in Ferrante's Days of Abandonment] is that it’s a claustrophobia of disintegration. It’s like being in someone’s mind while that mind is totally falling to pieces.”
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The best books on American football and its dark side
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'If you go to Palermo and say, “I’m researching the Mafia,” they laugh a lot. First of all they laugh a lot, and then they kill you.' The best books on The Sicilian Mafia, a by Professor Diego Gambetta:
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The samurai, Japan's warrior caste, have been embraced by popular culture and made their way into films, comic books and video games. But who were they really?
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“The term ‘strategy’ dates from the Greco-Roman period but then it doesn’t come back into vogue until the 18th century or so” Uncovering the fascinating history of military strategy:
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