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From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition.

Felice Lasco torna a Napoli, nel rione Sanità, dopo quarantacinque anni trascorsi fra Medio Oriente e Africa. La madre sta morendo e lui la accudisce fino all'ultimo con tardiva ma amorosa pazienza. Poi, invece di tornare al Cairo dove lo aspetta l'amata compagna, Felice sembra obbedire al richiamo delle radici e di un destino, e rimane. Rimane perché in attesa dell'incontro fatale con Oreste, noto ormai come delinquente incallito.

CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy.

In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—reason, logic, science, evidence—has run its course, how and why has it happened?

Nostalgia comprises 48 of Pagès' short poems. Her words speaks of her nostalgia for England's landscape when she came to live in the US, as well as her awe of natural beauty, in general. Her poems speak of gardens full of gnomes, fairies, and moonlit messages, as well as birds, water, and trees to assure us of nature's continued companionship and support throughout disappointments, trials, and losses. They us of a beauty that changes but never fades and of continued hope even during times of loss.

God's heart is broken as his people look to other things for satisfaction, joy and peace. He is not willing to let them go. He relays his anguish through Hosea, the broken hearted prophet. In this prophetic book lies the core speaking of God to the Western world. Wrought with divine nostalgia, God calls his people to solitude with him that He may whisper into their ears and be their deliverance and all satisfying lover. Though others cried, "injustice" Hosea cries, "You don't love me anymore."

Certe mostruosità possono maturare solo in posti così: una provincia del nord Italia, dove soltanto pochi metri separano un gregge di pecore da un centro commerciale con sala slot e fitness, dove la gente abita in villette a schiera con giardino, tavernetta e vetrina con i ninnoli in cristallo, dove riservatezza è il nome che si attribuisce a un'omertà che non ha niente da invidiare a quella dei paesi dove comanda la mafia.

The price of his son's life...is just a few enhanced memories. Eddie Dowler's 12-year-old son is dying. There are treatments available, but none he can afford. His son is going to die simply because he isn't rich. And then his doctor offers a ray of hope. There's a way to pay for his son's procedure. An unorthodox way. And so Eddie calls Nostalgia Inc, an advertising agency unlike any he's ever known. He soon learns that the price of his son's impossibly expensive operation...is merely a handful of tweaked memories.

Dean Cassidy looks back on a life filled with hardship and remembers Theresa Wayman, the bright spark that lit up his world when he was 18. As an adult, many years later, Dean becomes a successful author but still can't move past his betrayal and loss of Theresa. Beyond Nostalgia is a poignant story about growing up, making choices, learning to forgive, and moving on.

As the Battle of Britain rages, the Castle family are standing their ground at the heart of the community, running Castle's Café. German guns shell Dover and danger lurks around every corner, but despite this, Lily Castle is excited to be starting her nursing career at last. Lily is enjoying her life. She's a good nurse, has a group of friends at the hospital and there is romance on the horizon. That is until her world comes crashing down around her. When she tries to help an injured prisoner of war at the hospital, she ends up implicated in a crime.

نصُّ وجيز ، صدر لأول مرّة في كتاب ، في العام 2004، في رام الله، لم تتجاوز صفحاته المئة والعشرين من القطع المتوسط . يوجز هذا النصّ، الذي يمكن اعتباره رواية غير متخيّلة ، حكايةَ الكاتب مع اتّفاق أوسلو الفلسطينيّ- الاسرائيليّ وما تعرّض له لأنّه عارض هذا الاتّفاق، ليس من موقع الرفض للتسوية السياسية للصراع مع العدوّ ، بل لأنه رأى أن هذا الاتّفاق، لن يُفضى إلى التسوية العادلة والمستقرّة ، لن يجلب للجانب الفلسطيني إلا المزيد من الكوارث. ويروى النصّ وقائع عودة كاتبه إلى الوطن ، العودة المتأخرة والمنقوصة ، كما يروي الكاتب ما رآه مهمّا فات ، واحدة في تونس والثانية في غزّة ، حيث دار الحوار حول اتّفاق

Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and consigned to scrolling screens, On Browsing’s essays chronicle what we’ve lost through online shopping, streaming, and the relentless digitization of culture. The latest in the Field Notes series, On Browsing is an elegy for physical media, a polemic in defense of perusing the world in person, and a love letter to the dying practice of scanning bookshelves, combing CD bins, and losing yourself in the stacks.

Un bizzarro e coinvolgente viaggio sentimentale: sedici anni dopo le tragicomiche peripezie raccontate in "Stupore e tremori" e in "Né di Eva né di Adamo", Amélie Nothomb torna in Giappone. È l'occasione per rivedere i luoghi e le persone amati dopo lo spaventoso terremoto di Fukushima del 2011.

Most know me as Kaelynn Carroll, Theo's fiance and curator of the New York Museum of Art. But what they don't know, what few can even see, is the darkness that stirs within me, a Pandora's Box of hunger and anger and disease. What began as a simple trip to Britain to catalog a 16th-century art collection would soon turn into a nightmare beyond anything I could imagine. For, you see, between the darkness beneath the museum and the return trip home, I lived another's life, another reality.

A limited podcast presented as a mix of old and new recordings, 1997 and 2017, outlining select late 90's arcade games with a Namco-leaning focus. The podcast is a 25-episode series plus one introductory Day 0 episode. Each episode may include the following: *Simulating booting a newly arrived game and discussion of game elements. *Redemption Roundup: A feature on a ticket-based game and summary of new prizes items that have arrived at the arcade (every 2 episodes). *Incorporation of stories from the arcade during this time period. *Time-sensitive arcade industry news. *Three music specials ...

Arthur Miller’s deeply moving drama reunites two long estranged middle-aged brothers. Nostalgia and recrimination erupt as they sell off an attic full of furniture, their last link to a family and a world that no longer exists. This 1968 classic is a wrenching saga of plaintive gestures and missed opportunities. A co-production with the BBC.

I racconti prendono in esame il concetto di "Cultura", ossia quel patrimonio nozionistico che fa dell'Uomo un Essere cosiddetto "dotto", ma non già intelligente. Sono trattati anche temi nostalgici, malinconici ed esistenziali.

Do you remember rock n' roll and Elvis Presley; the hula hoop; Superman and Batman comics; Lucky packets; Levi jeans; Secret 7; Monopoly; Old McDonald; Barbie and Ken; Old Spice; and Meccano sets?