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Mieko Kawakami, "J’adore"

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Mieko Kawakami, "J’adore"

Mieko Kawakami, "J’adore"
2020 | ISBN: 2330133650 | Français | EPUB | 222 pages | 0.4 MB

Deux enfants d'une douzaine d'années, l'un et l'autre de famille monoparentale, deviennent amis. Ensemble ils apprennent à formuler ce qu'ils ressentent. Ainsi s'imposent à eux les nuances du langage, la nécessité de nommer au plus près du sens les sentiments envahissants qui bousculent la fin de leur enfance et les peines enfouies dans leur mémoire. Sans compter la violence que leur impose l'incapacité de leurs parents à leur parler de la mort ou de l'abandon qui ont façonné insidieusement leur jeune existence. …

Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

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Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
English | December 3rd, 2019 | ISBN: 1620974207 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1.83 MB

A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system

Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, and the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession

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Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, and the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession

Coupon Crazy: The Science, the Savings, and the Stories Behind America's Extreme Obsession by Mary Potter Kenyon
English | June 18th, 2013 | ISBN: 1942672268, 1938301889 | 224 pages | EPUB | 16.60 MB

Coupon Crazy examines the phenomena of avid coupon use and the socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors that construct it. By delving into the history of couponing, refunding, the science of shopping, and the dark underbelly of a coupon world the average American doesn't even know existed, author Mary Potter Kenyon manages to both fascinate and educate the reader. Readers will meet today's "Coupon Queens" (and Kings) and learn about an era when trash really was cash. Not just an observer of this ethnographic research, Mary lived it for over 30 years.

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession, UK Edition

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This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession, UK Edition

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession, UK Edition by Daniel Levitin
English | July 4th, 2019 | ISBN: 0525949690, 0241987350 | 293 pages | EPUB | 1.98 MB

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.