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1) Nostalgia
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How can a thought, feeling, sound, or smell so quickly whip us back into a memory? Why do these seemingly insignificant moments bubble to the surface? Are they to remind us that we are an accidental collection of experiences or an intentional gallery of actions?
The poetry of Nostalgia highlights the memories of the melancholy, the struggle, and the joy of a single life, Melissa's life. Memories that evoke feelings we all share either as the star...
2) Nostalgia
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Timeon has been arrested but Big Tom and Adrian are nowhere to be found. Will is nostalgic and wishes to return to the ranch. He proposes that he and Evelyn's family should return to the ranch and stick together. Bill does not think he is worthy of their love and acceptance. So, he leaves the group when they get to the ranch. Evelyn and Will then go to live on the ranch with Lisa and little Jamie. The sheriff has sent some men to guard them should...
3) Nostalgia
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Poetry that reflects my mood at the time, poems about life and love and relationships ending. Poems and stories that everyone can relate to. Situations that can happen to any of us in every day life and also the "not so common" variety of stories like murder mysteries and scandals of every nature. Characters that "come alive" as you read.
My autobiography begins when my father, age 12 and his sister age 11 and their parents, (my grandparents)...
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The Tango phenomenon today is a reality for the whole world, involving people from all walks of life on three continents: Asia, America, and Africa.
The author has asked herself the reason for this 'retrieval' of the Tango, in particular, the dance. Why are people from all over the world going to the 'milongas'? A question that leads her into an interior journey, an experience of awareness, in search of the essence, the "spirit of Tango that expresses...
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"I run my hands over the cover of the diary. Possibly, this was the last thing my father wrote in.Sure, he wrote academic papers and presentations and lectures. But this, this might be the last thing he has ever written for himself. This might be the last thing connecting him to the life he left behind." Victoria has discovered a diary her father used to keep. Many questions remain unanswered. What happened the night Sophia disappeared?What happened...
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Ein Familienroman zwischen Sizilien und Berlin und eine bittersüße Liebeserklärung an den italienischen Süden
Tita, eine Berliner Grafikerin, erhält einen Anruf aus Sizilien, der sie zurück in die Vergangenheit führt: Ihr Vater Gianni verließ einst den Südosten der Insel, um als einer der ersten Gastarbeiter in Berlin sein Glück zu finden. Er verliebte sich, gründete eine Familie und wurde erfolgreich, indem er die Tiefkühlpizza in Deutschland...
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Mi libro Nostalgia de Juventud es un pequeno y ameno recorrido por esas calles de antano de mi querida ciudad de Santiago, Republica Dominicana. Con sus perezosos atardeceres llenos de quietud a finales de los anos 50 e iniciando los anos 60. Llenos de la vibrante musica norteamericana, por un lado, y aquella emotiva musica de Nueva Ola, por el otro lado. Asi voy transitando en el recuerdo de mis primeros anos escolares. Relatando aquellos tiempos...
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia.
Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age.
In this profound reflection,...
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When we can't call to mind the name of someone we've known for years, or walk into a room and forget what we came for, we start worrying. Are these lapses just "senior moments," or something serious like dementia? In this book, a renowned specialist explores the topic of memory in later life-not only the problems but the surprisingly unexpected pleasures it can offer, such as the "reminiscence effect."
Avoiding jargon, Douwe Draaisma explains neurological...