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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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May 18, 2021 10:22PM

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The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

by Alan Downs

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May 10, 2021 12:01AM

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Book cover for Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia

Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia by Waleed Aly

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That is the way things tend to proceed in this country: we report politics as though it is sport, and sport as though it is politics. The sports pages are full of ideas – about team development, about long-term recruitment strategies, about ...more

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“Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

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