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The Denial of Death
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The Denial of Death
1970s
The Denial of Death is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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The Denial of Death
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The Denial of Death
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Sopranos
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The Sopranos
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The Wire
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The Wire
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The Sopranos
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The Sopranos
1990s
A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Trial
1920s
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
1990s
Soul, hip-hop, and reggae fused into a deeply personal statement of faith, love, and independence.
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The Godfather
1970s
The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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The Wire
Television 2000s
The Wire
Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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Books 1880s
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers and a murdered father. Faith, reason, and the problem of evil.
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Music 1970s
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time, money, madness, and death. The concept album as cultural monolith.
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
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Essays 1900s
The Souls of Black Folk
Double consciousness and the color line. The founding text of African American intellectual tradition.
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Books 1920s
The Great Gatsby
A mysterious millionaire and his impossible dream. The American century in 180 pages.
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