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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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The price of his son's life ...is just a few enhanced memories. Eddie Dowler's 12-year-old son is dying. There are treatments available, but none he can afford. His son is going to die simply because he isn't rich. And then his doctor offers a ray of hope. There's a way to pay for his son's procedure. An unorthodox way. And so Eddie calls Nostalgia Inc., an advertising agency unlike any he's ever known. He soon learns that the price of his son's impossibly...
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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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Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute...
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Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory. Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of...
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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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Esta obra constituye una oportuna contribución a los estudios literarios del Caribe colombiano. Si bien no todos los escritores examinados proceden de este espacio cultural, ni han tenido el mismo reconocimiento, la preeminencia del Caribe queda fuera de toda sospecha con estudios sobre Gabriel García Márquez, Germán Espinosa, Alberto Duque López, Alejandro Álvarez y Efraim Medina Reyes. Sus páginas, que complementan artículos sobre William...
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Con el paso de los años, todos desarrollamos un cierto grado de nostalgia por nuestros días de juventud. Los juegos que jugamos, la comida que comimos, la música que escuchamos, las películas que vimos, ciertos olores o sabores... todo ello nos hace sentir algo. A todos nos gusta la cálida sensación de revivir un tiempo pasado que recordamos como mejor o más simple. Pero la nostalgia no se limita a nuestras vidas personales. Como cultura, somos...
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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...