Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-02-14
Dewey code: 305.567092
RRP: £7.95
Price: £5.76
Review Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Editions) / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Authors
- Lisa Appignanesi
- John Forrester
Dewey code: 150
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.48
Review Freud's Women / Phoenix: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.
Publication date: 2001-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.76
Price: £8.01
Review Trust No One: The Glamorous Life and Bizarre Death of Doris Duke / Vivisphere Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 782.421642092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.20
Review Comfort from a Country Quilt / Bantam USA:
Creator: John Miller
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-10-05
Dewey code: 920.720904
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.47
Review Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers / New World Library:
Publication date: 2007-05-25
RRP: £9.00
Price: £4.28
Review Learning to Be Me: My Twenty-Three-Year Battle with Bulimia / Harlem Writers Guild Press:
Publication date: 2008-04-12
Dewey code: 335.43092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.65
Review Rosa Luxemburg (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Publication date: 1991-08
Dewey code: 818.54092
Price: £5.99
Review I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Bantam Books:
Publication date: 2000-10-02
Price: £16.99
Review Follow Your Dreams / HarperCollins Entertainment:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-04-24
Dewey code: 792.7097471
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.58
Review Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life in and Out of Jazz Time / Hal Leonard Corporation:
Creator: Louise Thornton
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1991-04-01
Dewey code: 362.76
RRP: £13.95
Price: £3.23
Review I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2000-09-18
Dewey code: 338.4
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.82
Review Business as Unusual: The Journey of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop / Thorsons:Funky Business paved the way; "Traditional roles, jobs, skills, ways of doing things, insights, strategies, aspirations, fears and expectations no longer count. In this environment we cannot have business as usual. We need business as unusual. " And here it is, though a guided tour through the past decade at the Body Shop is probably not what the Swedes had in mind. Since its inception in 1976, the Body Shop has pioneered socially responsive business practices and challenged the nature of the cosmetics industry. Success transformed it into a household name and by 1987, Anita Roddick had accepted the Confederation of British Industry's award for Company of the Year. Naturally, that's when things got tricky-in consultant-speak, the Body Shop reached adolescence. Business as Unusual gives the impression that throughout the 90s, just about everything that could go wrong did. Organisationally, the enterprise had spiralled into a complex and inefficient mess-"a lego set from Hell" in Roddick's words-with a bottom line under pressure from competition happy to mimic the packaging and ethos for their own cut-price ethical chic. Most damaging of all was the spate of negative press the Body Shop received during the mid-90s from commentators queuing up to question their values and practices. [+]By the end of the decade, redundancies and change were high on the corporate agenda as the Body Shop restructured (with "kindness") in an attempt to reinvent the brand for the new millennium. It all makes for an engrossing business history, but Business as Unusual is not just about the Body Shop. It also serves as a checklist to the major causes and campaigns of the 90s. Much of it is self-evident-"no company can afford to waste valuable brain power simply because it's wearing a bra;" the planet is precious; greed is bad-and the worthiness does occasionally grate, but elsewhere the Body Shop's activism stands out as a shining example of the good that can be achieved through orchestrated pressure. With her unique brand of pumice-stone politics, Anita Roddick has done the unusual and shown that success does not have to come at the expense of a conscience. Business as Unusual has its faults but it makes a thought-provoking read and shows that Anita Roddick has lost none of her passion for change. Her ethics may stink, but it's of peppermint, tangerine and cocoa butter. -Iain Campbell.
Publication date: 1995-08-14
Dewey code: 964.0082
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.15
Review Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Perseus Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £19.50
Price: £10.48
Review The Only Arranged Marriage / Xulon Press:
Publication date: 2002-10-01
Dewey code: 840
RRP: £12.50
Price: £10.56
Review Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (Personal Takes) / University of Pennsylvania Press:
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 378.198
RRP: £9.95
Price: £3.25
Review The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke / Random House USA Inc:
Publication date: 1988-05-01
Dewey code: 940.531503924
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.40
Review Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family / Simon & Schuster:
Publication date: 2003-03-01
Dewey code: 782.42164092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.06
Review Little Miss Dynamite / Hyperion:
Authors
- National Academy of Sciences
- Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Publication date: 2001-03-12
Dewey code: 509.22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.59
Review Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries / Henry (Joseph) Press:
Authors
- Michael K. Jones
- Malcolm G. Underwood
Publication date: 1993-04-22
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £23.99
Price: £18.99
Review The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby / Cambridge University Press:
| Models & Brands:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Editions), Freud's Women, Trust No One: The Glamorous Life and Bizarre Death of Doris Duke, Comfort from a Country Quilt, Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers, Learning to Be Me: My Twenty-Three-Year Battle with Bulimia, Rosa Luxemburg (Life & Times), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Follow Your Dreams, Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life in and Out of Jazz Time, I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Business as Unusual: The Journey of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, The Only Arranged Marriage, Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (Personal Takes), The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, Little Miss Dynamite, Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby |
