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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell

Transcending the boundaries of time (as all good poets must, lest they be doomed to mere historical footnote status), are you prepared to catapult yourself headfirst into the ever-turbulent, lace-collared, soul-wracked existence of John Donne? Yes, that John Donne: the one who turned flea bites into flirtation and existential crises into world-class verse. Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations …

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Baarda Model: Insights for Fair Employee Reward Management

The very first job out of university is one that I remember like it was yesterday. I was fresh-faced, eager, and ready to make my mark on the world. I was hired as a junior designer at a reputable media company, and I was thrilled to be starting my professional journey. But as the months …

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Hidden World of The Borrowers

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thimble Cupboard. Within the hallowed, dog-eared pages of children’s literature lies a tale so miniature, so delightfully domestic in scale, that it might just crawl under your floorboards and redecorate with a postage stamp. I speak, of course, of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, first published in 1952—an …

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Confronting the Tumultuous Tomorrow: A Review of “2034: A Novel of the Next World War”

What, pray tell, might a third world war look like? Would it be a gentleman’s war, conducted with the decorum of a particularly aggressive chess match? Or would it be the kind of war where your Wi-Fi goes down, your fridge starts speaking Mandarin, and nuclear missiles begin their uncomfortably swift journey across the sky? …

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The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke

Within the grand cosmic opera where humanity pirouettes among the stars, could our future be etched upon the vast canvas of the universe, just beyond our provincial celestial cul-de-sac? Enter Arthur C. Clarke’s magnum opus, The Songs of Distant Earth, where the venerable maestro of speculative fiction revisits his favorite interstellar haunts with a prose style so …

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