Sill Everybody's Business: The Enlightening Truth About AIDS

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Medicine

METROPOLITAN

Better

ATUL GAWANDE

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff.\nWhen we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes―war, famine, pandemic―we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic.\nHow do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works―from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi―esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.

On Consolation

IGNATIEFF, Michael

Religion & Spirituality

American Way of Repression

History

Corey, Robin

Americas

Untitled

Yitzhak Laor

Literature & Fiction

Untitled Novel

christoph-hein

Untitled On Hurricane Katrina And U.s. Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

James K. Galbraith

Social Sciences

City Formerly Known As New Orleans

Mike Davis

From the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America's waning power 
In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."
Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, bad behavior in other countries, ill-fought wars, and capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle America's empire of bases before the Pentagon dismantles the American dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and a crucial prescription for a remedy.

Aep: Dismantling The Empire (American Empire Project)

Johnson, Chalmers

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

Biographies & Memoirs

EMMANUEL CARRÈRE

Arts & Literature

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