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Anne Räisänen
From the Shadow of Shame to the Light of Compassion
The personal may be highly political. This concept was again confirmed as I read the book Treatment of Shame by Finnish psychotherapist...
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Rewriting History
The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...
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Women in War
Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...
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A Pale View
Kazuo Ishiguro's plaintive novel A Pale View of Hills is marked by clarity and mystery at the same time. The main character Etsuko, who...
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Artist's Wife
Aino Sibelius, the wife of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, was not a muse but an active figure in the creative work of her...
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You have been sold
I got email from the New York State Communist Party. How on earth did this unknown party, from a distant continent, find my personal...
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Good things will abound
Just by embracing the thought written in the title anyone can start a process of personal change, if we are to believe certain self help...
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In the Palm of a Monster
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...
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On an Escape from Oneself
Supporters of slow travel often have a desire to combine being on the road and working. However, few are able to sustainably combine work...
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Ignorance is Bliss?
The background of the economic crash that began in the United States in 2008 is revealed to the common reader in the book Swimming with...
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Freeing Oneself from Depression
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness is a self-help book written by a well-known and recognized...
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On the Borderline between Good and Evil
Ann Heberlein’s book on evil sheds light on an eternal problem that is smouldering in our time as well: how people start to nest in their...
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Atonement
The British author Ian McEwan is able to describe moments, moods and psychological relationships with magical precision. Even very young...
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How to live without money?
As an old-school citizen, I might not myself be able to live for several years as a vagabond and, well, a bit like a bum. But it’s not...
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Free Money for All?
If you’re tired of hearing that social inequality is just a necessary consequence of the laws of economy at work, you can regain your...
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The Remains of the Day
Stevens, the venerable butler of an English stately home, goes through his life during a summer road trip in 1956, a story told in Kazuo...
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The Silence of the Sea
A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...
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Traveller of the Century
A mysterious traveller arrives in Wandernburg, a vaguely placed town somewhere in the area of present Germany in the early 19th century. ...
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The Idle Traveller
Dan Kieran's guidebook for slow travellers made me experience again the dizziness I used to feel before my Interrail trips when I was...
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