LIBROS DEL AUTOR: yunita simmons

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  • The Still Runway
    Yunita Simmons
    What happens when a machine built entirely for motion becomes perfectly still? In 1999, a gleaming new airport opened with grand ambitions. By 2008, it was abandoned-a fully intact infrastructure frozen in time. For seventeen years, a single caretaker tended this silent cathedral of departure and arrival, learning lessons no operational airport could teach. Using this specific,...
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  • The Still Runway
    Yunita Simmons
    What happens when a machine built entirely for motion becomes perfectly still? In 1999, a gleaming new airport opened with grand ambitions. By 2008, it was abandoned-a fully intact infrastructure frozen in time. For seventeen years, a single caretaker tended this silent cathedral of departure and arrival, learning lessons no operational airport could teach. Using this specific,...
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    61,77 €

  • Liquid Courage and Fictional Lives
    Yunita Simmons
    An investigation into the human tendency to escape into altered states and fabricated identities. It argues that both alcohol and self-invention function as technologies of the self - methods through which individuals negotiate the tension between the unbearable weight of authenticity and the necessity of performance. ...
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    61,67 €

  • The Heart Knows Before the Mind
    Yunita Simmons
    On a crisp autumn evening in 2016, Clara Bennett, a veteran firefighter in a small Ohio town, stood outside a smoldering two-story house. Flames licked the upstairs windows, smoke billowing into the twilight sky. Her team had evacuated the family, but Clara’s radio crackled with a neighbor’s plea: a pet dog was still inside, trapped on the second floor. Protocol screamed cautio...
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    11,80 €

  • Why We Do What We Do
    Yunita Simmons
    There is no single truth about why we do what we do. There are only layers-peeling, aching, and revealing us to ourselves.Why does a child lie about breaking a cup? Why does a man return to the same kind of heartbreak again and again? Why do we chase success even when it hollows us?I do not claim to have answers with clean edges. Instead, i seek to witness, gather, and illumina...
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    12,25 €