Dune: a sci-fi epic about ecology, power and heroic myth
Decoding the world of Arrakis through its resources, religion, colonies and how the novel questions the image of the savior.
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Decoding the world of Arrakis through its resources, religion, colonies and how the novel questions the image of the savior.
Analyzing 1984 through surveillance, memory, language and mechanisms that make people doubt their own experiences.
Reread The Little Prince through themes of loneliness, domesticity, responsibility, and the ability to see what's important beneath appearances.
Assess the narrative power of Sapiens, and show why grand generalizations need to be contrasted with specialized research.

To understand the past, readers need to put politics next to economics, beliefs, language and daily life.

The comparison only makes sense when going through the differences in religion, history and literary tradition of the two artists.

One way to explain Chinese foreign policy is from an internal sense of insecurity instead of just looking at power ambitions.

One way to read the normalization process is not as a diplomatic moment, but as a series of persistent work between two former enemies.

Read the history of the passport as a story about borders, civic identity, and the controlling capacity of the modern state.