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🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction et de fiction, de poésie, des classiques, du spéculatif, du réalisme magique, etc.
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Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2023 - Catégorie roman francophone
Grâce à ce roman mordant, Marguerite Imbert est une révélation pour …
En 2213, dans un monde où règnent décadence américaine, pandémie sanglante, massacres génétiques, conquêtes planétaires et montée de l'extrémisme vaudou, …
"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le génie, c'est l'incompréhension."En juin 2021, un …
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only …
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no …
This was a really quick but fun read. I'd watched Haven (it's not ...good, do not recommend) a very long time ago and was expecting The Colorado Kid to have more of a sci-fi angle than it did, at least a more overt one, so it was cool to see what the book actually did. I liked the ending, though I understand why it's apparently pretty polarizing.
(I will say — what the fuck is up with the cover...)
Gwendolyn Leick: Mesopotamia (2002, Penguin Books, Limited)
Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is …
Le privilège de dénoncer cherche à savoir pourquoi les femmes et les filles noires sont largement absentes du débat public …
Popier Popol: L'étoile de mer (Paperback, Français language, Éditions grévis)
Ballottée entre un studio miteux, des relations affectives inconsistantes et un travail morne, l’héroïne, trentenaire, s’empêtre avec étonnement dans des …
Il arrive que se produisent des choses qui rassemblent l’humanité tout entière, et chacun se rappelle l’endroit où il se …
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the …
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His …
In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal …
In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to …
A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered …
The position that brain and mind are separate entities was Rene Descartes’ greatest error, to borrow Antonio Damasio’s (1994) famous turn of phrase. Another of Descartes’ big errors was the idea that animals are without consciousness, without experiences, because they lack the subtle nonmaterial stuff from which the human mind is made. This notion lingers on today in the belief that animals do no think about nor even feel their emotional responses. Most who study animal brains have not yet learned how to discuss and study animal minds, especially their emotional feelings, as systematically and superbly as they study learned behaviours. Animals’ primal feelings are best studied ethologically—by monitoring their own emotional tendencies.
— Archaeology of Mind by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven (Page 1)
Ethologically: the science of animal behaviour; also the study of human behaviour and social organization from a biological [Interesting] perspective
"Subtle nonmaterial stuff" really reminds me of how Philip Pullman would describe something. Lingering holdover of Christianity — Descartes was a devout Catholic, and according to Thomas d'Aquin: « l'âme des bêtes est-elle détruite avec les corps… L'âme des bêtes est produite par une énergie naturelle, mais l'âme humaine par Dieu »
