Jennifer Michael Hecht – författare
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8 produkter
Doubt: A History
The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
E-bok, 2010
113 kr
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"Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers" (Detroit Free Press)."Jennifer Hect''s romp—lighthearted but serious—brings to life an awesome array of figures in philosophy, science, and literature, in a way that is …
Funny
Häftad, 2005
203 kr
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Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins, a tour de force, ""Funny"" is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of …
Stay
A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It
Häftad, 2015
154 kr
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A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay aliveWorldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is …
Wonder Paradox
Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life
E-bok, 2023
199 kr
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The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry. Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection? We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record …
Next Ancient World
Häftad, 2004
144 kr
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The Next Ancient World won the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize in 2001 and has since won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the ForeWord Magazine Best Poetry Book of the Year (2001).
Wonder Paradox
Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live - in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were …
Who Said
Häftad, 2013
271 kr
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"Jennifer Michael Hecht writes delightfully tricky poems that wildly bend the sense of our language."—Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate "Hecht's rhymes are irregular, gymnastic, pointed, and fun; she's found what so many would-be populists seek, an idiom entirely conversational yet able to …
Funny
Inbunden, 2005
346 kr
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Winner of the 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Billy Collins, a tour de force, "Funny" is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of …
