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Barry Lopez and a Sense of Place
Barry Lopez—A Sense of Place Barry Lopez, the brilliant humanitarian, environmentalist, and writer who passed in 2020, wrote
A Shattering System
We live in the most systematized society in the history of the world. Everything we do processes us:
Relationships in Time and Place
Whether in the country or in a city, relationships define our sense of self and other, our possibility
Central City as Metaphor
Metaphor, arguably, is the basic ingredient of culture. Metaphor rationalizes reality by defining it through abstraction, and through
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto
Summary: The body of a brutally murdered man is found beneath a train, and the police begin their
The Far Cry by Frederic Brown
Summary: In a lonely cabin near Taos, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered. No one knew who
