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Surprised by Laughter
Surprised by Laughter looks at the career and writings of C. S. Lewis and discovers a man whose life and beliefs were sustained by joy and humor. All of his life, C. S. Lewis possessed a spirit of individuality. An atheist from childhood, he became a Christian as an adult and eventually knew international acclaim as a respected theologian. He was known worldwide for his works of fiction, especially the Chronicles of Narnia; and for his books on life and faith, including Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and Surprised by Joy. But perhaps the most visible difference in his life was his abiding sense of humor. It was through this humor that he often reached his readers and listeners, allowin...
Flaw
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile to the disruption and chaos, and eventually take matters into their own hands... Flaw is Tulli’s most intense and personally motivated work to date, while still retaining the signature mind-and word-play so admired by critics and her growing readership.
Annihilation
A day in the life of a small Polish-Jewish town shortly before World War II.
The Black Seasons
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A Thousand Peaceful Cities
In the last days of the post-Stalinist thaw in 1963 Poland, Jerzyk becomes involved with an assassination plot arranged by his father, uncle, and their friend Mr. Traba in an attempt to take back their lives.
Us, Relatives
Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals’ horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. Drawing on her long-term research with a community of South Asian foragers, Nurit Bird-David provides a scale-sensitive ethnography of these people as she encountered them in the late 1970s and reflects on the intellectual journey that led her to new understandings of their lifeways and horizons. She elaborates on ...
Ci z Dziesiątego Tysiąca
Przygodowa powieść dla młodzieży w konwencji science-fiction. Solidna, radosna, pełna normalnego humoru i ciepła, pozytywna powieść na dobre i gorsze dni. Bohaterami jest trójka nastolatków: Ion Soggo oraz bliźniacy Alka i Alek Roj, którzy spotykają się podczas wakacji na stacji badawczej „Pierwszy Zwiadowca” – sztucznej planetoidzie, gdzie pracują ich rodzice. Rojowie są Ziemianami, zaś Ion Saturnianinem. Opiekuje się nimi android Robik. Mechanoplaneta ma przetestować możliwość lotu wielkiego statku kosmicznego poza granice Układu Słonecznego. Pewnego dnia w kolejną misją badawczą startują dwa kosmoloty, których załogi stanowią wszyscy naukowcy pracując...
