Authors
- Charlotte-Élisabeth d\' Orléans
Dewey code: 709.440
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.59
Review Correspondance complète de madame duchesse d\'Orléans née Princesse Palatine, mère du régent: Traduction entièrement nouvelle par G. Brunet. Tome 1 / Adamant Media Corporation:
Authors
- Quang Van Nguyen
- Marjorie Pivar
Dewey code: 615.852092
RRP: £8.91
Price: £2.84
Review Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam / St. Martin's Griffin:
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 299.784152092
Price: £14.50
Review Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: A Mayan Shaman's Journey to the Heart of the Indigenous Soul / J P Tarcher:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-27
Dewey code: 270.1092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £17.40
Review Origen (Early Church Fathers) / Routledge:
Creator: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1991-10
Dewey code: 170.82
Price: £8.94
Review Gift from the Sea / Pantheon Books:
Edition: 1st One World/Ballantine Ed
Publication date: 1999-07-22
Dewey code: 616.85270092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.91
Review Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression / Ballantine Books Inc.:
Creator: Allan Bunden
Publication date: 1993-12-12
Dewey code: 193
RRP: £17.99
Price: £169.55
Review Martin Heidegger: An Intellectual and Political Portrait / Basic Books Inc.,U.S.:
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 335.4
RRP: £4.44
Price: £1.16
Review Marx in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) / Ivan R. Dee Publisher:
Publication date: 1990-01
Dewey code: 158.1
RRP: £8.35
Price: £27.95
Review A Better Way to Live/for the First Time, Og Mandino Shares His Story of Succes: Featureing 17 Rules to Live by / Bantam Dell Pub Group (Trd):
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-06
Dewey code: 301.092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.10
Review Auguste Comte (Key Sociologists) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 184
RRP: £49.00
Price: £32.33
Review The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics / Hackett Publishing Co, Inc:
Creator: Thomas W. Benson
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 818.5209
RRP: £36.50
Price: £30.43
Review Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) / University of South Carolina Press:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 610.73092
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.91
Review Housecalls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost / Harbour Publishing,Canada:
Authors
- John Forrester
- Lisa Appignanesi
Dewey code: 150.1952
RRP: £17.99
Price: £18.60
Review Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers / Basic Books:First published in 1992, Freud's Women quickly established itself as an invaluable study of the women who peopled Freud's world-women who, as relatives and friends, patients and disciples, helped him to found the new discipline of psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester tell a fascinating and complicated story with great flair: Freud's Women is as scholarly as it is readable, moving between biography and theory to chart the intellectual history of psychoanalysis. As the authors point out at the beginning of this study, when it comes to the "woman question", history has often taken the form of a trial (of Freud, of psychoanalysis). This revised edition of the book stays with the four key themes used to organise the authors' discussion ("The Freud Family Romance", "Inventing Psychoanalysis", "A Woman's Profession", "The Question of Femininity"), concluding with a new "Summing Up" which takes up the recent "assaults" on Freud launched by, amongst others, Frederick Crews and Peter Swales. In the wake of the so-called "Memory Wars"-wars which reopened discussion about the origins of psychoanalysis at the same time as questioning Freud's views on the "reality" of child sexual abuse-the culture of psychoanalysis, its claims to individuality and privacy, have been increasingly under attack. Against the commonplace that psychoanalysis-as both theory of mind and therapeutic practice-is "in crisis", Appignanesi and Forrester offer a balanced and intelligent account of the vicissitudes of Freud's theory of femininity and the different ways in which "his women"-from 'Dora' to Joan Riviere, from Lou Andreas-Salome to Helene Deutsch-have worked with, and against, that theory to support the insights of a remarkable discipline. -Vicky Lebeau.
Authors
- Jean-Francois de Galoupe de La Perouse
- Jean Francois De Galaup De Laperouse
Publication date: 1999-01-31
RRP: £90.00
Price: £75.43
Review The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1785-88: v. 2 (Hakluyt Society Second) / Hakluyt Society:
Publication date: 2001-04-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.39
Review Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape / Faber and Faber:Escape, like all travel, is defined by departure points and destinations, inextricably bound yet with a flux between. Adam Phillips is concerned with that transitory space in Houdini's Box, a marvellous, beguiling treatise on our seemingly innate desire for flight. It opens with a short introductory chapter describing a young girl who sees Phillips, a psychotherapist, and plays a strange game of hide-and-seek that opens up complicated notions involving fear and desire of being "found". This leads into two parallel, interwoven narratives. One concerns the incomparable escapologist Houdini (though he preferred "mystifier"), and comprises a biographical footprint of this assimilated Jew, the immigrant "escapee". On the face of it, his performances were absurd, escaping from self-imposed bondage, leaving nothing changed. Yet, at the same time, everything was different, and the effect was akin to social hypnotism. The flip side was an equal passion for debunking and exposing self-styled spiritualists for the charlatans, or at least bad practitioners, they were. From some things there is no escape, as Houdini understood very well. The second narrative follows Phillips' sessions with a middle-aged man who comes to him after badgering from his (ex-) girlfriend, who said she wanted to help "his next ex". [+]He had no regard whatever for the things that mattered most to him, and chased women relentlessly so that he could run away from them. In Phillips' words, "the woman as object of desire had been replaced by flight from woman as an object of desire". Erudite, allusive and elusive, only when Phillips suggests, tellingly, that he is avoiding risk-taking by busying himself with choices, does he do what comes naturally, and take flight. It is escapism itself which is the most hypnotic, wielding the infinite freedom of potential, and which proves the hardest to escape from. The final piece is a paper on Emily Dickinson, which, though brief, illuminatingly contrasts two poems written 15 years apart in which she dwelt on her voluntary confinement, and escape. There is certainly no escaping Phillips' dazzling talent. Drawing on mythology, psychotherapy theory, poetry and clinical experience, the author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Darwin's Worms continues to imaginatively work the borders of psychotherapy and literature, and to write some of the most richly stimulating and creative prose around. Perhaps his most accessible work to date, this is escapist literature at its best. -David Vincent.
Creator: Anthony Shugaar
Publication date: 2000-12-15
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.88
Review Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli / I B Tauris & Co Ltd:
Edition: Open Market Ed
Publication date: 1997-04-28
Dewey code: 198.9
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.15
Review Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes) / Ivan R Dee, Inc:
Publication date: 2005-01-18
Dewey code: 306.70973
RRP: £11.99
Price: £0.84
Review Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life / W.W. Norton & Co:
Publication date: 1985-07
Dewey code: 362.19892858842
RRP: £5.56
Price: £22.18
Review Elizabeth Joy / Chariot Victor Pub:
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Correspondance complète de madame duchesse d\'Orléans née Princesse Palatine, mère du régent: Traduction entièrement nouvelle par G. Brunet. Tome 1, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: A Mayan Shaman's Journey to the Heart of the Indigenous Soul, Origen (Early Church Fathers), Gift from the Sea, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression, Martin Heidegger: An Intellectual and Political Portrait, Marx in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes), A Better Way to Live/for the First Time, Og Mandino Shares His Story of Succes: Featureing 17 Rules to Live by, Auguste Comte (Key Sociologists), The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Kenneth Burke in the 1930s (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication), Housecalls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost, Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers, The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1785-88: v. 2 (Hakluyt Society Second), Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape, Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli, Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes), Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life, Elizabeth Joy |
