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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 10th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition
Celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by #1 New York Times bestselling and Stonewall Honor-winning author Becky Albertalli with this stunning DELUXE LIMITED PAPERBACK EDITION, while supplies last.This limited special edition includes gorgeous specs, making the package as beautiful as the read, and features new bonus content from Becky herself, including emails between Simon and Blue and Oreo recipes from Simon!Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: If he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing with, will be jeopardized.With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon's junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated.Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out--without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.
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Simone Rocha
Rocha graduated from the prestigious Central Saint Martins M.A. program and, upon the presentation of her first collection in 2010, quickly garnered an instant following among fashion insiders and taste-makers; Adrian Joffe of Dover Street Market was an early fan. Born from the deep and lush nature of her native home in Ireland as well as the dynamism of her upbringing in Hong Kong, her designs are highly feminine, captivating, and infinitely provocative. Her vision is one that seems to have no bounds her highly singular designs have since reached a new set of followers that have grown to include stylishly rebellious A-listers like FKA twigs, Billie Eilish, and Chloe Sevigny along with a devoted set of fashion darlings who don Rocha s platform brogues, voluminous, almost gothic dresses, and egg-shaped pearl handbags handbags in cities across the globe. This book is a long, pensive gaze into Rocha s subversive world, one heavily inspired by art, nature, and her dual heritage. A natural bookmaker (Rocha has published an impressive number of collectible zines), this tome is insightfully edited, designed, and crafted, gathering catwalk images, shadowy editorials, and backstage documentation in a manner that stays true to the nature of the world she s created. An absolute essential for any fashion-lover s bookshelf, this monograph is highly anticipated and set to follow in the footsteps of successful authors Rizzoli has published in the past including Ann Demeulemeester, Rick Owens, Jun Takahashi, and Maison Martin Margiela.
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Routledge Companion to Simone Weil
The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the 'only great spirit of our times'. Although contemporaneous with the rise of existentialism, and educated alongside contemporaries such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the creative and restless nature of Weil's thought set her apart. Equally adept at thinking across politics, philosophy, theology, ethics, literature, and science, Weil stands distinct in the canon of twentieth-century Western thought as a highly unique and controversial figure.The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an outstanding survey of her thought. Thirty-seven chapters by an international team of expert contributors are divided into six clear parts:Contextualising WeilPhilosophical SourcesKey ConceptsPolitics and SocietyInteractions with ReligionConversations.Within these sections key thinkers and topics central to Weil’s philosophy are addressed, including Plato, Kant, Marx, God, attention, love, beauty, labour and work, the body, slavery, rootedness, colonialism, fascism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indic thought, phenomenology, existentialism, feminism, literature, and many more.The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching Weil's thought, whether in philosophy and religious studies or related disciplines such as political theory, French literature and Jewish studies.
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Simone de Beauvoir
« Simone de Beauvoir: Sa vie, sa philosophie, ses oeuvres » retrace le parcours remarquable de cette figure emblématique du XXe siècle. Née à Paris, Beauvoir surmonte son éducation conservatrice pour devenir une pionnière de l'existentialisme aux côtés de Jean-Paul Sartre. Son oeuvre majeure, Le Deuxième Sexe, dénonce les constructions de la féminité et marque le début d'une nouvelle ère de pensée féministe. Ce livre plonge au coeur de sa philosophie, explorant sa transition de jeune catholique à libre penseuse, et dresse un portrait de sa vie personnelle et intellectuelle. Ses relations, ses luttes et ses triomphes dans un milieu dominé par les hommes révèlent une femme engagée à questionner les dilemmes de la liberté, de l'éthique et de l'existence humaine. Beauvoir a non seulement défié le statu quo à travers ses écrits, mais a aussi incarné sa philosophie avec force. Son héritage continue de résonner, inspirant ceux qui cherchent à dépasser les limites imposées par la société.
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Nina Simone
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has continued to be revered as a cultural icon and role model for scores of fans and fellow musicians. Much of her fame derives from her association with the civil rights movement, for which she wrote such classic songs as 'Mississippi Goddam', 'Four Women' and 'Young, Gifted and Black'. The defiance and affirmation of such anthems was accompanied by an equal dedication to songs of melancholy, yearning and spiritual questing. Placing Simone and her music firmly within the socio-historical context of the 1960s, this book also argues for the importance of considering the artist's entire career and for paying greater attention to her music than is often the case in biographical accounts. Simone defied musical categories even as she fought against social ones and the result is a body of work that draws upon classical and jazz music, country blues, French chanson, gospel, protest songs, pop and rock tunes, turning genres and styles inside out in pursuit of what Simone called "black classical music". The book begins with a focus on the early part of Simone's career and a discussion of genre and style.Connecting its analysis to a discussion of social categorization (with particular regard to race), it argues that Simone's defiance of stylistic boundaries can be seen as a political act.From here, the focus shifts to Simone's self-written protest material, connecting it to her increasing involvement in the struggle for civil rights. The book also provides an in-depth account of Simone's 'possession' of material by writers such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Sandy Denny and Judy Collins, while exploring the relationship between the personal and the political. In considering material from the Simone's lesser-known work from the 1970s to the 1990s, the study proposes a theory of the "late voice" in which issues of age, experience and memory are emphasised. The book concludes with a discussion of Simone's ongoing legacy.
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Simone Weil
How can we articulate the intimate demand of the spiritual life and the struggle for solidarity? These two issues have often been treated separately; in Simone Weil: Attention to the Real, however, Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil (1909–1943) and demonstrates how she brought them together in a single movement of thought. "Our time has a unique mission, calling for the creation of a civilization based on the spirituality of work," she wrote near the end of her short life. Her experience as a militant and the call of the divine nurtured in her writing an intense and unwavering defense of this new civilization, backed by her personal sense of intellectual, moral, and political responsibility. Originally published in French in 2009, Simone Weil: Attention to the Real leads the reader through her earliest writing as a perceptive social critic to her work on spirituality and materialism, and finally to her extraordinary concept of decreation, produced before her death at the age of thirty-four. "To an exceptional degree," Chenavier says, "the life of Simone Weil, her personality, her commitment, and her reflection form one single whole." Chenavier argues that Weil's vocation took on a very original form in the history of philosophical thought. He is especially concerned with Weil's philosophical writings on the concept of work, which remain relevant today, and which provide an important key to her thinking throughout her life. Bernard Doering's superb translation brings to English readers Chenavier's succinct account of Simone Weil's life and an illuminating introduction to her philosophical thought.
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