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Adrian Colesberry
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I was procrastinating on a piece of writing one day last week and I grabbed a volume of the Grove Press Sade off my bookshelf, the one with Philosophy in the Bedroom and Justine, and what struck me upon my limited re-perusal was how many of the modern sticking points about female sexuality where we [...]
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How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry
— published 2009 — 6 editions |
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Costa Rica: The Last Country The Gods Made
by Adrian Colesberry (Goodreads Author) , Kimberly Parsons — published 1993 |
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Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture
by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) , Susie Bright (Goodreads Author), Joan Price — published 2012 |
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Adrian Colesberry
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
read in July, 2009
Adrian Colesberry said:
"I wrote this book, so my review for the book is simply the book. It's due out July 16th, 2009 from Gotham press."
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| I enjoy difficult reading projects and this one got the best of me. In the main, I found it inscrutable, like reading an inside argument about an inside argument. | |
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The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance)
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| Don't let the fact that Reich turned into something of a nut later in his intellectual career stop you from enjoying his mid-career output. This is a great book containing his most powerful critique of the religious impulse. I'm just going to include...more | |
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The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1 : The Spell of Plato
by Karl R. Popper
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Pale Fire is my favorite novel. Reading Lacan is too painful. I've tried and failed. I did however...more " |
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| This book is a series of lectures reconstructed from the notes of several students who took this philosophical survey class from Merleau-Ponty in Paris back in the 1950s. In the introduction, we learn that Michele Foucault treasured his notes, althou...more | |
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