“Nothing short of astonishing.” ― New Yorker
“A thing of beauty―lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations.” ― Los Angeles Times
For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope. 
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.

Unless: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

SHIELDS, Carol

Literary

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Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. London, Fourth Estate, 2012. 13 cm x 20 cm. 527 pages. With several illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some underlining by preowner on several pages. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding. Includes the following chapters: Drums That Talk / The Persistence of the Word / Two Wordbooks / To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work / A Nervous System for the Earth / Information Theory / Into the Meme Pool / New News Every Day etc. Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In 'The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. (Amazon) James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called 'one of the great science writers of all time'. Gleick's books include the international bestsellers Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (2011). Three of his books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists; and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and ..

Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

Reference

A student of Freud, psychoanalyst William Reich developed a theory in the 1930s that proposed sexual permissiveness as a means to alleviate repression and improve health. His ideas prepared the way for the sexual revolution of the 1960s and his machine to focus 'orgone energy' was ultimately lampooned by Woody Allen as the orgasmatron in Sleeper. Christopher Turner's much-praised book tells the story of the radical and influential thinker and his extraordinary life.

Adventures in the Orgasmatron

Politics & Social Sciences

Christopher Turner

Social Sciences

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