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"Whether he's describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder ("Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....") or the installations of Barbara Kruger ("Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are..."), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful. Indiana champions...
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Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince's rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet. His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors of the recording studio as well as his days on tour. With unprecedented access to the musicians, singers, and studio engineers who knew Prince best, including members...
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"Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech ... Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex court politics, alliances...
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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with...
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1984.
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Reviews of significant fiction and nonfiction published in 1983. Provides coverage for works that are likely to be of particular interest to the general reader, that reflect the publishing trends of a given year, and that will stand up to the test of time.
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"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--
"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful...
68) 42 Luke - 1984
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As the only Gentile author of the Bible, Luke scrupulously recorded Jesus' compassion for sinners, women, and other outsiders of His day. As Skip Heitzig takes us through this account, we get a fresh look at the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
©1984 Skip Heitzig (P)2015 Skip Heitzig
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The title for the book of Numbers comes from the two censuses that were taken of the children of Israel as they wandered in the wilderness. Join Skip Heitzig as he takes a look at the still-relevant themes of Numbers - namely Israel's disobedience and God's continual faithfulness to his covenant.
©1984 Skip Heitzig (P)2015 Skip Heitzig
70) 43 John - 1984
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The book of John takes a more expansive approach to the story of Jesus Christ than the other three Gospels, focusing on the existence and deity of Jesus from before time began. Join Skip Heitzig for an overview of this book, written so that we "may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God" (John 20:31).
©1984 Skip Heitzig (P)2015 Skip Heitzig
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George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterized by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell's work remains influential in popular and political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"-describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices-is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big...