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'Essays and Lectures' is a collection of essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. 'Essays and Lectures' contains "The Rise of Historical Criticism", "The English Renaissance of Art", "House Decoration", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Lecture to Art Students", "London Models" and "Poems in Prose".

Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide a historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation, or how-to, for successfully comprehending social events and relations.

Listen as we decode rare essays, lectures, and interviews across disciplines — distilling hours of reading into short, definitive conversations. We break down the big ideas and how to apply them. Past guests include Yale professor Verlyn Klinkenborg (Several Short Sentences About Writing), polar explorer Erling Kagge (In Praise of Silence and Philosophy for Polar Explorers), survival expert Laurence Gonzales (Deep Survival), geopolitical expert Jacob Halberg (The Wires of Ware), 1-800-GOT-JUNK founder Brian Scudamore (WTF?! - Willing To Fail), and renowned investor Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT)....

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Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS: Delivered to the Art students of the Royal Academy at their Club in Golden Square, Westminster, on June 30, 1883. The text is taken from the original manuscript. In the lecture which it is my privilege to deliver before you to-night I do not desire to give you any abstract definition of beauty at all.

Generous, funny and wise, this collection is the perfect introduction to the storyteller described as ‘one of Africa’s most important living writers’; whose work, now spanning four decades, continues to spin wonder and magic while offering penetrating insight into exile, migration and homecoming.