LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james swearingen

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  • Maladies of the Soul
    James Swearingen
    In The Valmont, a posh condo development in New Orleans, once an Ursuline convent, seven residents-a real estate developer, a Russian ballerina, a legal secretary, a TV personality, a US Attorney, a French professor, and a Jesuit priest embody the classical vices. Their intertwined lives pass through bedroom and theatre, carnival and courtroom, exorcism and suicide, as the narr...
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  • Starship Galatea
    James Swearingen
    What happens to the once and future creatures who escaped the death of Planet Ulro and embarked on a generational starship to find a new home in the galaxy? Ishmael Kahn, historian and a ninth-generation survivor, tells the story of problematic collective life on this sacred and profane time machine. Two and a half centuries after its launch, anxiety, boredom, and despair provi...
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  • History of a Dying Planet
    James Swearingen
    Why did the only planet 'known to evolve a species capable of bringing nature-if not itself-under rational control destroy itself? What wasn’t done that might have been done differently? For readers, the problem has two faces: archeological and teleological. In this narrative history, Opeyemi Adawale, Nigerian-American political historian, and UN official Wu Mai Bao participate...
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  • Extreme Beauty
    James Swearingen
    What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy in order to illuminate how the concept and experie...
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    144,08 €