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A collection of short stories by one of the great American authors of the twentieth century Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains the following fourteen stories: The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit...
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"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball...
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"Men Without Women" is Ernest Hemingway's second collection of short stories and his first publication since the blockbuster debut of "The Sun Also Rises." Here, Hemingway revisits and explores several of his familiar genres and locales (including the bullfighting and boxing rings) and adds two stories involving his favorite protagonist, Nick Adams. Hemingway's punchy, sparse style is on full display in these tales and a few of these stories have...
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Because of the fame The Sun Also Rises brought Ernest Hemingway, when Men Without Women was published just one year later, in 1927, it commanded popular and critical attention. Even reviewers who objected to a masculine emphasis and a sometimes harsh realism identified stories in the collection that could not be ignored. Close commentary, with special attention to allusions, demonstrates that Men Without Women merits a place among the best story collections...
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Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men is an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel of the same name. Nominated for Golden Lion Award, it chronicles the intertwining lives of 4 Iranian women during the summer of the 1953 coup d état, a cataclysmic moment in history when an American led, British backed mission led to the over throw of Prime Minister and reinstalled the Shah to power.
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The 25+ Ernest Hemingway Collection is a comprehensive compilation of the acclaimed author's most prominent works, including novels, stories, and poems. Among the featured titles are The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Spring, and Men Without Women, each offering a unique glimpse into Hemingway's celebrated style and storytelling prowess. From tales of love and war to explorations of the human condition, this collection showcases the breadth and depth...
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This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living...
10) How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
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Chapters include, among others, "9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women," "How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It," and "Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?" It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they're saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of "inaction items" designed to challenge women to be less challenging. And, when all else fails, a set of...
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Women without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood-frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts-became taken for granted in the New Russia. While most Russians, including single mothers, believe that two-parent families are preferable, many also contend that single...
13) Effortless Fat Loss: Simple Approach for Men and Women to Lose Fat Without Dieting (Healthy Weigh Lo
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Effortless Fat Loss is a simple approach for men and women to loose fat, without dieting. This book demystifies fat loss, and explains why so many other approaches fail. We live in a world where we are continually bombarded with ads for fitness gimmicks, fad diets, and pills and potions, yet humans are more obese than ever. Effortless fat loss uncomplicates the process of food, fats, eating and how to use our own body to maximize hormones, and burn...
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A couple's future hangs in the balance as they wait for a train in a Spanish café in this short story by a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
At a small café in rural Spain, a man and woman have a conversation while they wait for their train to Madrid. The subtle, casual nature of their talk masks a more complicated situation that could endanger the future of their relationship. First published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women,...
16) Two Syllable Men
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In the tradition of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Ernest Hemingway's Men Without Women, Two Syllable Men presents the male psyche in all its fragmented glory. From William, who finds his immigrant girlfriend's English language translation notebook, and in it the words that define their growing relationship, to Steven, who is comforted whenever he spies trees or shrubs peeking out from the roofs of urban buildings, and who can't walk through the...
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) fue un gran novelista y escritor de cuentos cortos estadounidense, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1954. Fue conocido tanto por la intensa masculinidad de sus escritos como por su vida aventurera ampliamente publicitada. Hemingway fue un hombre consumadamente contradictorio y alcanzó una fama superada por pocos autores estadounidenses del siglo XX. Hombres sin Mujeres, "Men Without Women", (1927) es la...
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David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five decades as one of America's most honored journalists. These are dazzling portraits of some of the most compelling sports figures of our era,...
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This is the dramatic, uninhibited account of the human side of the air war in the Pacific and of the men who flew the Superforts, the B-29s of General Curtis LeMay's XXI Bomber Command, straight to the heart of Japan. Earl Snyder was a navigator on the B-29 Umbriago-Dat's My Boy, and took part in the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. But, he recalls nervously, his crew didn't drop their bombs on the Japanese capital, because at 29,000 feet the air was so...
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There are reasons the IT Department of Reynholm Industries is kept in the building's basement. Bitter slacker Roy, über-nerd Moss, and technically clueless Jen attend a night of theater, befriend a German cannibal, disrupt their boss' funeral, throw a dinner party, design the ultimate bra, and commit further acts of personal and professional irresponsibility.