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I love bookstores for many reasons but revere both the idea and the practice of public libraries. To me, they embody the civic-scale practice of a gift economy and the notion of common property. Libraries are models of gift economies,
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― Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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Welcome to the forum for the Brain Soup Goes Gilmore Book Club hosted by Dayeanne Hutton and Felicity Disco. We're exploring the vast array of books r ...more
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