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Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination Gerald Weissmann, M. D., is a professor of medicine and director of the Biotechnology Study Center at New York University School of Medicine. His essays engage the reader with an elegance of style and display of limber wit; but make no mistake, the learned doctor's delightful arguments are delivered with a fine moral intelligence. In his investigations of art, science, history, and politics, Weissmann makes astonishing connections. Darwin's Audubon will rekindle the reader's pleasure in deep reading itself.
Jacques Lacan Fifteen years after his death, Jacques Lacan remains not only one of the foremost intellectuals of the century but also one of the most controversial. The first major biography of Lacan, written by a close member of his inner circle, this fascinating portrait follows Lacan's brilliant and unorthodox career, which redefined psychoanalysis, and examines the development and evolution of his ideas. The book also explores Lacan's passionate nature and his personal ties with some of the most extraordinary minds of Western culture and details his romantic liaisons, family traumas, and domestic conflicts with his children. This monumental work is an illuminating explication of Lacan's complex relationships and unconventional, often perplexing theoretical concepts, as well as a uniquely informative chronicle of one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century.
The International Herald Tribune: The First Hundred Years The International Herald Tribune began in 1887 as the European Edition of the New York Herald, the personal creation of the wealthy and imperious James Gordon Bennett, Jr., a member of the New York fast set with a certain cosmopolitan charm. Now, a century after its beginnings in Paris, Charles L. Robertson provides a history of the venerable journalism institution whose readers have included turn-of-the-century Parisian elites, World War I doughboys, Jazz Age American expatriates, and today's international travelers and leaders. Now published in association with the New York Times and the Washinton Post, the International Herald Tribune remains a constant and valued companion to Americans abroad while it gains more and more international readers.
The Procedure In the late-sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Low attempts to create a Golem by following a procedure that is outlined in a third-century Cabalist text. He succeeds, but not exactly in the way he had planned. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist, causes an international uproar when he creates in his laboratory a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. He has, in effect, manufactured a primitive organism out of inorganic materials. In The Procedure, novelist Harry Mulisch has created an elegantly written story about two men who try to create life but fail, suffering similar punishments for their hubris.
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell, clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world, making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Determined to expose what he realized was the landscape's secret fourth dimension, Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map. The Map That Changed the World is a very human tale of endurance and achievement by the author of The Professor and the Madman.
One Man's Bible In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays. What follows is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Communist regime. Gao evokes the spiritual torture of political and intellectual repression in graphic detail, including the heartbreaking betrayals he suffers in his relationships with women and men alike. One Man's Bible is a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. |
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The Life of Elizabeth I Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one, not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure. Against a lavish background of intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married, but was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn? An enthralling epic that is also an amazingly intimate portrait, The Life of Elizabeth I is a mesmerizing, stunning reading experience.
Ideals & Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art The fifth volume of E. H. Gombrich's collected essays deals with values and their place in the humanities. As the author writes in the Preface, 'There are moments in the life of an academic when he feels prompted to get up form his university chair and mount the pulpit…" Ranging in subject from the Philosophy of Hegel to wartime propaganda broadcasts, the future of museums and the role of reason and feeling in the study of art, Professor Gombrich consistently upholds the ideals of our culture that are under constant threat from the idols of irrationality and intolerance. Now reissued in paperback format, this powerful collection of essays is a timely and important affirmation of liberal and humane values.
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan The full, fascinating story of the life and work of Bob Dylan is revealed as never before in Down the Highway, a compelling new book that will surely be seen as the definitive biography of this American music legend. Over a period of three years, Sounes interviewed more than 250 key people in Dylan's life, including fellow musicians, lovers, and family members, and gained access to previously unseen documentary materials. From this mass of exclusive information he has constructed an engagingly fast-paced, comprehensive, and revelatory biography, taking the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to his life in the present day.
The World Below New England, 1919. Nineteen-year-old Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings ever since her mother's death, is diagnosed with consumption and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of running a household, she discovers a nearly lost world of youth and possibility, and a doomed romance. The present. Catherine Hubbard, Georgia's granddaughter, no longer feels any attachment to her life in San Francisco, so when Georgia's old Vermont house is passed down to her, Cath seizes the chance to return to the simple comfort of her childhood home. There, sorting through her own affairs, Cath stumbles upon Georgia's diaries. Through them, she glimpses the true world of her grandparents that lingered below the one she saw, and the misunderstanding upon which Georgia built a lifelong love.
While I Was Gone Despite having a loving husband, three vivacious daughters, a beautiful home in rural Massachusetts, and satisfaction in her work, Jo Becker's mind is invaded by a persistent restlessness. Then, an old roommate reappears to bring back Jo's memories of her early 20s…. Her obsession with that period of her life and with the crime that concluded it eventually estrange Jo from everything she holds dear, causing her to tell lie after lie as she is pulled closer to this man form her past and to a horrible secret.
Yonder Stands Your Orphan Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of a camp for indigent orphans and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk. These events unleash a season of madness, violence, and sin upon the Mississippi community surrounding Eagle Lake. Man Mortimer, a pimp and casino pretty-boy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty, has just discovered that the only woman who's ever truly moved him is also being moved by another. What begins as revenge quickly becomes a vicious spree that gives vent to Mortimer's infantile pride and lifelong fascination with knives. Yonder Stands Your Orphan paints a searing picture of the American South, a place of hoary racism and sparkling chrome SUVs, of dusty pawnshops, neon casinos, and sudden storms of passion and fury. Gorgeous, vivid, and rife with ringing epiphany, it is a tour de force that will establish Barry Hannah once again as one of the most important writers in America. |
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