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Introducing Psychoanalysis The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of anti-Freud literature, little is known about contemporary psychoanalysis. Introducing Psychoanalysis redresses the balance. It introduces psychoanalysis as a unified "theory of the unconscious" with a variety of different theoretical and therapeutic approaches, explains some of the strange ways in which psychoanalysts think about the mind, and is one of the few books to connect psychoanalysis to everyday life and common understanding of the world.
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight, celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden. Whether she is deadheading flowers of glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. She chronicles instances of violence in nature but also intuits loneliness and desire in the clamor of male crickets in the spring. And there is wonderment and marvel as she happens upon a tiny from asleep inside the petals of a tulip. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, Cultivating Delight is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.
Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image The Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each collection, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry from the seventh century down to Teika's own day. The anthology is, without doubt, the most popular and widely known collection of poetry in Japan, a distinction it has maintained for hundreds of years. In this study, Joshua Mostow challenges the idea of a final or authoritative reading of the Hyakunin Isshu and presents a refreshing, persuasive case for a reception history of this seminal work.
Introducing Buddha Introducing Buddha describes the life and teachings of the Buddha. Author Jane Hope, who has herself taught Buddhism extensively, also shows that enlightenment is a matter of experiencing the truth individually and by inspiration which is passed form teacher to student. Superbly illustrated by Borin Van Loon, the book illuminates this process through a rich legacy of stories, and explains the practices of meditation, Taoism and Zen. It goes on to describe the role of Buddhism in modern Asia and its growing influence on Western thought.
Romanticism and It's Discontents In Romanticism and It's Discontents, Anita Brookner offers a stunning reassessment of the masters of French Romantic painting in the context of nineteenth-century poetry, literature, and criticism. Examining the works of artists such as Gros, Musset, Delacroix, Baudelaire, Ingres, and Zola, Romanticism and Its Discontents traces the way in which French Romanticism evolved from the political turmoil of the late eighteenth century and the defeat of Waterloo in 1815, and replaced the agnosticism of the Enlightenment and the Revolution with a new heroism. In this fascinating evaluation, Anita Brookner brings unfamiliar works brilliantly to life and casts a new light on more recognizable ones.
Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia. Is he chiefly to blame for opening the way to the totalitarian regime of Stalin? Readers will be able to judge for themselves. Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution is a re-issued classic which makes that history accessible and digestible. |
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The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley In 1903, aspiring journalist Robert Dunn joined an expedition attempting the first ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. Led by explorer Frederick Cook, the climbers failed to conquer McKinley, but they did circumnavigate the great peak, an accomplishment not repeated until 1978. The trek also spawned a book unique in the literature of exploration: Dunn's frank, sardonic, no-holds-barred look at day-to-day existence on an Alaskan expedition. Before Dunn, most such accounts were sanitized and expurgated of anything unflattering. Dunn, however, a protégé of the muckraker Lincoln Steffens, endeavored to report what he saw, with panache. And what Dunn reported was a journey rife with conflict, missed opportunity, incompetence, privation, and danger.
Travels with a Medieval Queen The medieval queen in question is Constance of Hauteville, daughter of the Norman king Roger II of Sicily, wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, and mother of the emperor Frederick II. In 1194, at the age of forty, Constance journeyed south from Germany to reconquer her father's throne. On the way, she discovered that she was pregnant for the first time and decided to give birth in public so that the world would know the child was truly hers. Seventeen years ago, Mary Taylor Simeti promised in On Persephone's Island the now classic memoir of an American in Sicily, that she would someday tell the story of Constance, who was, like her, an expatriate and the mother of a bicultural family. In Travels with a Medieval Queen, Simeti keeps her promise: retracing Constance's route from Germany to Sicily.
Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds In Crescent and Star, Stephen Kinzer offers an intimate report on Turkey today, pulling aside the veil that has long hidden its wonders from the outside world. He traces its development into a modern state and explains the great dilemmas it now faces. Turkey is poised between Europe and Asia, caught between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the traditional power of its army and the needs of its impatient citizens, between Muslim traditions and secular expectations. Will Turkey continue to hide behind its fears, remaining only half-free and fulfilling only half its great potential, or will it yield to the pressure of a new generation and become a powerful and prosperous democracy? Crescent and Star makes clear why Turky might, or might not, become "the most audaciously successful nation of the twenty-first century."
The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s Based largely on archival sources, Columbia University history professor Woloch's engrossing study takes a fresh look at the civic order that supplanted France's monarchy in the wake of the Revolution. The new republic's ambitious programs for universal elementary education and public assistance for the poor and elderly, though crippled by hyperinflation in the mid-1790s, nevertheless became part of the nation's civic agenda, shows Woloch. The introduction of trial by jury and other legal reforms aimed to make justice direct and inexpensive. The new regime's overriding concern was to gain control over the countryside, which it did by empowering popularly mandated village oligarchies. Despite widespread draft evasion, Napoleon Bonaparte's obsession with imposing military conscription during a time of relative tranquility paved the way for Imperial France's extravagant military campaigns.
The American Century This book brings together studies of Americanization and American imperialism to assess how far the twentieth century can be seen as the 'American Century'> The collection comprises new contributions exploring the 'geographic dialogues' that arise as the result of the projection of American power and culture in the world. The book provides a critical evaluation of the extent of the diffusion and adoption of the 'American way of life' and the very concept of 'America' itself.
Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902 This anthology of nineteenth-century English-language children's literature brings together over 120 works, including poems, stories and extracts from novels. The collection explores both famous and lesser-known works from writers as diverse as Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louis May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr., Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Rudyard Kipling. All texts are introduced with contextualizing headnotes and are organized chronologically; they can also be referenced by theme, genre, author and country. |
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