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"Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism"--
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"Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the female octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the terrifying Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other uncanny creatures lurking in...
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, 'The Myth of Sisyphus' transformed 20th century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religous meaning.