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The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Nietzsche launches a bold investigation into the origins of Greek tragedy and what it reveals about art, culture, ...  Show more

About Orchids, a Chat by Frederick Boyle audiobook. Genre: science In About Orchids, a Chat, Victorian writer and enthusiastic gardener Frederick Boyle invites listeners into his small 'bungalow' garden and orchid houses for a candid, witty, and practical conversation about one o ...  Show more

Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (New York University Press, 2021) is a leap toward this direction by offering the field nine distinct díalo ...  Show more

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, Stephen Davies's Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are (Bloomsbury, 2020) takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-f ...  Show more

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Emily Wallace, author and illustrator of the new book Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South (University of Texas Press, 2019). Road Sides pays homage to popular travel guides with its shor ...  Show more

What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2024) Beth Driscoll, an Associate Professor in Publishing, Communications and Arts Management at the University of Melbourne, explores this question by situating reading in a var ...  Show more