Dancing on My Own
Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
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Shawn K. Jain
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Simon Wu
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A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 | A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
"A book that emerges out of the moment, electric with timely energies."–Washington Post
“Keen and refreshing.”–Cathy Park Hong
"Genius."–Claudia Rankine
An expansive and deeply personal essay collection which explores the aesthetics of class aspiration, the complications of creating art and fashion, and the limits of identity politics.
In Robyn’s 2010 track Dancing on My Own, the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, angry, and at times desperate, and yet by the time the chorus arrives her frustration has melted away. She decides to dance on her own, and in this way, she transforms her solitude into a more complex joy.
Taking inspiration from Robyn’s seminal track, emerging art critic and curator Simon Wu dances through the institutions of art, capitalism, and identity in these expertly researched, beautifully rendered essays. In “A Model Childhood” he catalogs the decades’ worth of clutter in his mother’s suburban garage and its meaning for himself and his family. In “For Everyone,” Wu explores the complicated sensation of the Telfar bag (often referred to as “the Brooklyn Birkin”) and asks whether fashion can truly be revolutionary in a capitalist system—if something can truly be “for everyone” without undercutting someone else. Throughout, Wu centers the sticky vulnerability of living in a body in a world where history is mapped into every choice we make, every party drug we take, and every person we kiss.
Wu’s message is that to dance on your own is to move from critique into joy. To approach identity with the utmost sympathy for the kinds of belonging it might promise, and to look beyond it. For readers of Cathy Park Hong and Alexander Chee, Dancing on My Own is a deeply felt and ultimately triumphant anthem about the never-ending journey of discovering oneself, and introduces a brilliant new writer on the rise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- De gingerpeach en 11-19-24
De: Bonnie Wright
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This Is the Voice
- De: John Colapinto
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, John Colapinto
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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There’s no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all - the human voice itself. Beginning with the novel - and compelling - argument that our ability to speak is what made us the planet’s dominant species, John Colapinto guides us from the voice’s beginnings in lungfish millions of years ago to its culmination in the talent of Pavoratti, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Beyoncé - and each of us, every day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strange choice to become political
- De D & C Kochersberger en 01-27-21
De: John Colapinto
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Necessary Trouble
- Growing Up at Midcentury
- De: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Narrado por: Drew Gilpin Faust
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival.
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4 out of 5 stars
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My Life written by Her.
- De Jacqueline L Larner en 09-03-23
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Wild City
- A Brief History of New York City in 40 Animals
- De: Thomas Hynes
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Wild City is a paean to New York City and its complex, and often surprising, relationship to its non-human residents, large and small. Like the wide range of humans who populate it’s five boroughs, a many animals, including whales, coyotes, deer, bed bugs, geese, mosquitos, and hawks all call the Big Apple’s streets, parks, and shores home as well.
De: Thomas Hynes
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Those Who Forget
- De: Geraldine Schwarz
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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During World War II, Géraldine Schwarz’s German grandparents were neither heroes nor villains; they were merely Mitlaüfer - those who followed the current. Decades later, while delving through filing cabinets in the basement of their apartment building in Mannheim, Schwarz discovers that in 1938, her grandfather took advantage of Nazi policies to buy a business from a Jewish family for a low price. Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning, Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what it purports to be
- De DPM en 10-10-20
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Forever Home
- How We Turned Our House into a Haven for Abandoned, Abused, and Misunderstood Dogs—and Each Other
- De: Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw, Larry Lindner
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Danny & Ron’s Dog Rescue is an organization like no other. Because an abused or neglected dog can only recover and learn to trust again when it is in a loving home, Danny and Ron decided to open their doors. Danny and Ron treat each neglected, abused, and misunderstood animal like a member of the family; the dogs eat organic food from their own bowls and are even allowed to sleep in the bed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So inspiring and relatable
- De MIchelle Howard en 11-10-22
De: Ron Danta, y otros
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How Healing Works
- Get Well and Stay Well Using Your Hidden Power to Heal
- De: Wayne Jonas MD
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Drawing on 40 years of research and patient care, Dr. Wayne Jonas explains how 80 percent of healing occurs organically and how to activate the healing process. In How Healing Works, Dr. Wayne Jonas lays out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness. Dr. Jonas explains the biology of healing and the science behind the discovery that 80 percent of healing can be attributed to the mind-body connection and other naturally occurring processes. Jonas details how the healing process works and what we can do to facilitate our own innate ability to heal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AWESOME !
- De Paula en 08-06-18
De: Wayne Jonas MD
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Women in the Kitchen
- Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
- De: Anne Willan
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose essential books have defined cooking over the past 300 years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661 to the early colonial days to the transformative popular works by Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, Marcella Hazan, and up to Alice Waters working today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a glancing survey of cookbooks and their authors
- De Ellen Sandler en 10-12-20
De: Anne Willan
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This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- De: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
- Narrado por: Susan Rogers
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
When you listen to music, do you prefer lyrics or melody? Intricate harmonies or driving rhythm? The “real” sounds of acoustic instruments or those of computerized synthesizers? Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you. She explains that we each possess a unique “listener profile” based on our brain’s reaction to seven key dimensions of any record: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm, and timbre.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needed to include the music
- De Sarah en 01-18-23
De: Ogi Ogas, y otros
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The Counterfeit Countess
- The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
- De: Elizabeth B. White, Joanna Sliwa
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg’s sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hero of WWII
- De Cam en 03-07-25
De: Elizabeth B. White, y otros
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Cook, Eat, Repeat
- Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories
- De: Nigella Lawson
- Narrado por: Nigella Lawson
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
Cook, Eat, Repeat is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella Lawson’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether asking “what is a recipe?” or declaring death to the “guilty pleasure,” Nigella brings her wisdom about food and life to the fore while sharing new recipes for listeners to return to again and again. She reveals the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen through recipes that make the most of her favorite ingredients, with inspiration for family dinners, vegan feasts, and solo suppers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cook, Eat, Repeat
- De Bookworm en 04-20-21
De: Nigella Lawson
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The World Behind the World
- Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
- De: Erik Hoel
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Throughout history, two perspectives on the world have dueled in our minds: the extrinsic—that of mechanism and physics—and the intrinsic—that of feelings, thoughts, and ideas. The intrinsic perspective allows us to tell stories about our lives, to chart our anger and our lust, to understand our psychologies. The extrinsic allows us to chart the physical world, to build upon it, and to travel across it. These perspectives have never been reconciled; they almost seem to exist on different planes of thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An insightful overview of consciousness research
- De Vanilor en 07-27-24
De: Erik Hoel
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The Metaverse
- And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
- De: Matthew Ball
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 419
The term metaverse is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of the New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who proclaimed in June 2021 that “the overarching goal” of Facebook is to “bring the metaverse to life”. But what, exactly, is the metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball explains, it is the successor to the mobile internet that has defined the last two decades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a must read
- De Andrew en 08-09-22
De: Matthew Ball