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Taylor & Francis Ltd James Joyce and the Internal World of the
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties.Mary Adams links Joyce's profound sense of guilt and abandonment with the trauma of being a replacement child' and compares his experience with that of two psychoanalytic cases, as well as with Freud and other well-known figures who were replacement children. Issues such as survivor guilt, sibling rivalry, the illegitimate' replacement son, and the dead mother' syndrome are discussed. Joyce is seen as maturing from a paranoid, fearful state through his writing, his intelligence, his humour and his sublime poetic sensibility. By escaping the oppressive aspects of life in Dublin, in exile he could find greater emotional freedom and a new sense of belonging. A quality of claustrophobic intrusive identification in Ulysses contrasts strikingly with a neTrade Review"Readers are aware that the Joyce ‘oeuvre’ is haunted by ghosts, shades, elusive and allusive fleeting asides, heaps of broken images where the ‘sun beats and the dead tree gives no shelter’. The bitterness of usurpation and betrayal stalk his pages and to the dismay of many a reader emotional passion can be obscured by his ‘catalectic tetrameter(s) of iambs marching’. But what or who haunts this vast oeuvre of James Joyce? Mary Adams unlocks the puzzle of the haunting in her theorising of ‘the replacement child’. She illuminates the harsh and lyrical linguistic landscape of Finnegans Wake, decompressing and revealing huge emotional intensity on the page. Reminding us that the unconscious is in the language not behind it! Adams gives us a deeply poignant and vivid portrait of the man, his family, his work and his world, and gives a voice to the silence around the death of Joyce’s ‘first born sibling’. She is a gifted psychoanalyst with a deep understanding of the poetry of dreams showing us how they catch and give formal representation to our passions. Her analysis gives us a heartfelt full-blooded picture of Joyce the man, the artist and genius." - Dr Paul Caviston, FRCPsych Mary Adams’ book is a work of Joycean scholarship, worn admirably lightly. Her love of James Joyce and his work illuminates the text. At the same time, it is a wonderfully concise, yet deeply thoughtful and moving exposition of the psychoanalytic and philosophical concepts which shape the replacement child’s internal world. The book will be of interest to analysts, child psychotherapists and lovers of James Joyce. - Hilary Lester, Training Analyst for the Society of Analytical PsychologyIn the author’s view, James Joyce is one of a surprising number of gifted writers and artists – Rilke and Van Gogh are others – who were born as ‘replacement babies’ to mothers who had lost a previous child. Drawing on her experience as a psychoanalyst, Mary Adams gives a subtle, admiring and scholarly account of Joyce’s life and work. She interprets it as his lifelong response to the painful beginning of his life and its unconscious meanings for him. Present in his work are not only memories of his family, but also of the multitude who were abandoned to die in the Irish Famine. This succinct book will encourage readers to return to Joyce’s great writings with an enriched interest. - Michael Rustin, Professor of Sociology, Associate of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyI found this book captivating and very moving. The seamless movement between Joyce the lived experience, patients and psychoanalytic texts brings each to life in a way that emphasises their connectedness, which in turn is reected in the quality and sensitivity of the writing. I felt I learnt much about the ubiquity of psychic pain and the efforts to mitigate it. - Julian Lousada, British Psychoanalytic Association"Readers are aware that the Joyce ‘oeuvre’ is haunted by ghosts, shades, elusive and allusive fleeting asides, heaps of broken images where the ‘sun beats and the dead tree gives no shelter’. The bitterness of usurpation and betrayal stalk his pages and to the dismay of many a reader emotional passion can be obscured by his ‘catalectic tetrameter(s) of iambs marching’. But what or who haunts this vast oeuvre of James Joyce? Mary Adams unlocks the puzzle of the haunting in her theorising of ‘the replacement child’. She illuminates the harsh and lyrical linguistic landscape of Finnegans Wake, decompressing and revealing huge emotional intensity on the page. Reminding us that the unconscious is in the language not behind it! Adams gives us a deeply poignant and vivid portrait of the man, his family, his work and his world, and gives a voice to the silence around the death of Joyce’s ‘first born sibling’. She is a gifted psychoanalyst with a deep understanding of the poetry of dreams showing us how they catch and give formal representation to our passions. Her analysis gives us a heartfelt full-blooded picture of Joyce the man, the artist and genius." - Dr Paul Caviston, FRCPsych Mary Adams’ book is a work of Joycean scholarship, worn admirably lightly. Her love of James Joyce and his work illuminates the text. At the same time, it is a wonderfully concise, yet deeply thoughtful and moving exposition of the psychoanalytic and philosophical concepts which shape the replacement child’s internal world. The book will be of interest to analysts, child psychotherapists and lovers of James Joyce. - Hilary Lester, Training Analyst for the Society of Analytical PsychologyIn the author’s view, James Joyce is one of a surprising number of gifted writers and artists – Rilke and Van Gogh are others – who were born as ‘replacement babies’ to mothers who had lost a previous child. Drawing on her experience as a psychoanalyst, Mary Adams gives a subtle, admiring and scholarly account of Joyce’s life and work. She interprets it as his lifelong response to the painful beginning of his life and its unconscious meanings for him. Present in his work are not only memories of his family, but also of the multitude who were abandoned to die in the Irish Famine. This succinct book will encourage readers to return to Joyce’s great writings with an enriched interest. - Michael Rustin, Professor of Sociology, Associate of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyI found this book captivating and very moving. The seamless movement between Joyce the lived experience, patients and psychoanalytic texts brings each to life in a way that emphasises their connectedness, which in turn is reected in the quality and sensitivity of the writing. I felt I learnt much about the ubiquity of psychic pain and the efforts to mitigate it. - Julian Lousada, British Psychoanalytic AssociationFor Joyce lovers, I expect the book to bring yet deeper understanding of the source of James Joyce’s unique and original creativity. For psychoanalysts and therapists, Adam’s book gives insight into the unconscious dynamic of the psyche of James Joyce and the hallmark characteristics of adult replacement children. The book is a great contribution for the therapeutic community and for replacement children who may feel more understood and more understanding of themselves. - Kristina Schellinski, British Journal of PsychotherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Freud. His lost brother and ‘dead mother’, 2. Images of Joyce. ‘This bizarre and wonderful creature’, 3. The ‘Dead Mother’. ‘Dark Lady’, ‘ghoul, chewer of corpses!', 4. Joyce’s Father—The Only Child. The only son of an only son of an only son, 5. Guilt and Persecution. Intrusive identification and the world of the claustrum, 6. Imagination vs Fantasy. The Ineluctability of the Proleptic Imagination, 7. Joyce: Prose Poet. Language, music and emotion, 8. Gogarty: The Lost Brother. James Joyce, ‘Buck Mulligan’ and the Martello Tower, 9. The Sorrow of Ulysses. ‘Deathflower of the potato blight on her breast.’, 10. Medievalism to Modernity. His Own Book of Kells, 11. Finnegans Wake. The Poetry of the Dream. ‘Quiet takes back her folded fields. Tranquille thanks. Adew’.
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Routledge Economy and Theology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Freuds Student Years
Book SynopsisIn Freud's Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences informed his later theories. Following on from Freud's Adolescence: Oedipus Complex and Parricidal Tendencies (2023) and starting at the point of the young Freud's graduation, Houssier charts the inception of Freud's ideas on fantasy, the Madonna-Whore complex, the Oedipal Complex, mother-daughter relationships and narcissism. Working chronologically, he looks at the way Freud's reflection and lamentation on his inhibited adolescence led to a fantasy of possession that informed his later work. Including excerpts from Freud's private letters to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, and exploring his relationship with Sándor Ferenczi, this volume offers a unique and intimate look into the life and inner workings of the most eminent figure of modern psychoanaly
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Pan Macmillan An End to Suffering
Book SynopsisPankaj Mishra's books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for fiction, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Other Brunel
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Austin Macauley Publishers Only the Ancestors
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Austin Macauley Publishers A Shower of Shite
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Austin Macauley Publishers A Shower of Shite
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Austin Macauley Publishers Hottentot Venus The Story of Saartjie Baartman
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Austin Macauley Publishers Sweating on Ice
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Austin Macauley Publishers Pick Up the Pieces
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Austin Macauley Publishers Phyllis Bentley
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Austin Macauley Publishers Three in a Bed
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Rebels Clinic
Book SynopsisFrantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial rule had a profound effect on him. In 1952, he wrote Black Skin, White Masks, a vital analysis of the effects of racism on the human psyche.He was later re-assigned to a hospital in French Algeria. It was here that he became involved in the rebellion of the National Liberation Front (FLN), who fought to break free from colonial power. Fanon's work for the FLN as a propagandist and psychiatrist became highly contentious. His final work, The Wretched of the Earth, was published in 1961 just before he died at the age of 36. It has proved to be one of the most controversial yet influential books of our time.The Rebel''s Clinic is a searing biography of the short and harrowing life of Frantz Fanon, anTrade ReviewInsightful ... Shatz is a sober and informed guide ... He is an erudite writer, and not afraid to show off his erudition -- Daniel Trilling * Financial Times *Absorbing * New York Times *Nimble and engrossing * Washington Post *Riveting * Los Angeles Times *Shatz’s book distinguishes itself by connecting Fanon’s thought to the livewire debates facing us in 2024 ... Shatz’s satisfying biography ... offers a portrait of Fanon that is not hagiographic, but rather of a great man who was deeply flawed -- Tomiwa Owolade * New Statesman *Excellent and thought-provoking ... should be read by anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the intellectual origins of today's "decolonial left", whether they sympathize with it or not * Air Mail *The Rebel's Clinic is a diligent, scrupulous, serious book. Adam Shatz keeps Fanon alive as one of us—a human being—not simply the larger-than-life subject of an academic study. This book offers a careful reconstruction of Fanon's times, especially the war in Algeria, and resonates at a moment when we are tragically no closer to solving the problems Fanon dedicated his life and writing to understanding. * John Edgar Wideman, author of Fanon and Look for Me and I'll Be Gone *Frantz Fanon has found his Isaac Deutscher in Adam Shatz. Politically and psychologically suave, The Rebel’s Clinic is as illuminating on the tragic pattern of Fanon’s private life as on the tumultuous continents through which he moved. It is also continuously insightful about Fanon's tormentingly complicated intellectual bequest on the crucial subjects of race and empire. * Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide and From the Ruins of Empire *Fanon positioned his life on the frontlines of decolonization, determined to imagine how the world was to be decolonized and what it would look like. Shatz offers a brilliant reconstruction of Fanon’s journeying from Martinique to Algeria. He tells a riveting story, his prose a thing of beauty. In his telling Fanon ceases to be a disembodied icon and becomes properly historical. Shatz’s Fanon upholds the certainty of the militant while he ponders, at the same time, the meanings of the unconscious world. His nuanced and complex readings of Fanon’s conception of political violence are a tour de force. Fanon was the most audacious interpreter of the age of decolonization: Shatz recovers him for our times. * Bill Schwarz, author of The White Man’s World: Memories of Empire *The Rebel’s Clinic is a fabulous book. Franz Fanon’s life as portrayed by Adam Shatz is a breath-taking love and jealousy ridden encounter of philosophy, politics and literature, taking place in the last days of European empires. * Ivan Krastev *Adam Shatz has captured Fanon's evolution as a thinker by linking this proud, fastidious man's interiority to a complex network of contexts: family, war, art, psychiatry, existentialism, black America, left-wing Catholicism and, most of all, African poetics. The result is the most subtle, comprehensive and lucid study yet to appear in English.Shatz has the gift of explanation without simplification. * Declan Kiberd *Adam Shatz offers a richly detailed account of the life and thought of Frantz Fanon. It is at once an intimate and unsparing portrait of the complexities of Fanon’s life as psychiatrist and militant political activist, and a vivid depiction of the anti-colonial struggles in which he engaged. We get a close look at internal conflicts among revolutionaries, as Fanon makes his way from Martinique to Algeria to Africa. Shatz’s masterful command of the history of that moment of promise in the early 1960s is compelling, indeed gripping reading. This is a book that gives deep insight not only into the life and times of Fanon, but also into the ways in which the history he lived was made. * Joan W. Scott, professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study *More than a biography, Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic is a rich and textured portrait of the intellectual and political worlds that shaped Frantz Fanon’s life, ideas, and legacies. Readers who know Fanon’s work intimately as well as those just discovering this iconic figure of Third World revolution will learn from this book. * Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination *Adam Shatz sweeps us up in Franz Fanon's life-as-road movie, with a cast of characters and an array of settings that come alive on the page, from Sartre and Beauvoir in Copacabana to Patrice Lumumba in the suburbs of Léopoldville. At the same time, with his mastery of geopolitics and world-spanning ideas, he has given us an intellectual history of a century of revolutionary aspirations. The Rebel's Clinic is a what is to be done for our times. * Alice Kaplan, author of The Collaborator and Looking for The Stranger *The Rebel's Clinic is a fascinating and enlightening read, one that will speak to many and that will help correct misconceptions about Fanon. This book not only provides a full picture of its subject; it also inspires the reader to apply Fanon's insights to situations that transcend his life and times. Adam Shatz has written an important book that speaks to our troubled and confusing moment. * Raja Shehadeh, Orwell Prize–winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I *Shatz does Fanon superb justice, alive to his complexities and blindspots but also to what made him such an original and clarifying thinker. It's also striking how many great minds were in and around Algeria: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jacques Derrida, Albert Memmi. * Sameer Rahim *Thoroughly researched ... a deep meditation on the transformative power and influence of one radical philosophical writer on the continuing fight for justice on many fronts * Booklist *
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Colonial First Ladies
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership
Book SynopsisAfter their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president for the last dozen of those years, during which he led the nation first to alleviate the Great Depression then led an international alliance that vanquished the fascist powers during the Second World War. Along the way, he established the modern presidency with centralized powers to make and implement domestic and foreign policies. He was naturally a master politician who eventually, through daunting trials and errors, became an accomplished statesman. For all that, historians regularly rank Roosevelt among the top three presidents. Yet, most historians and countless others criticize Roosevelt for an array of things that he did or failed to do. Conservatives lambast him for creating a welfare state and trying to pack federal courts with liberal judges while liberals condemn him
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Austin Macauley Publishers A Journey Toward Light
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Austin Macauley Publishers Energy and Everything
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Penguin Random House Group The Vinyl Diaries
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The Hmm Foundation Margaret Jones and the Art of Visual Storytelling
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The Hmm Foundation The Edge of Everything
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Realm of Ice and Sky
Book SynopsisNational Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship-and the men who sacrificed everything to make history.Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his catastrophic failures. Instead he was a courageous innovator who pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole-which would be achieved not by dogsled or airplane, but by airship.American explorer Dr. Frederick Cook was the first to claim he made it to the North Pole in 1908. A year later, so did American Robert Peary, but both Cook's and Peary's claims had been seriously questioned. There was enough doubt that Norwegian explorer extraordinaire Roald Amundsen-who'd made history and a name for himself by being first
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St Martin's Press Tabula Rasa
Book SynopsisA literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even wider variety of other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design.In Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around topeople to profile, regions he meant to portray. There are so many examples that he plans to go on writing these vignettes, an ideal project for an old man, he says, and a reminiscent montage from a writing life. This first volume includes, among other things, glimpses of a frosty encounter with Thornton Wilder, interrogative dinners with
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St Martin's Press Valor
Book SynopsisValor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton.Lieutenant William Frederick Bill Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay; but his harrowing ordeal had just begun.Shipwrecked on the southern coast of the Philippines, he was sheltered by a Filipino aristocrat, engaged in guerilla fighting, and eventually set off through hostile waters to China. After 29 days of misadventures and violent storms, Harris and his crew limped into a friendly fishing village in the southern Philippines. Evading and fighting for months, he embarked on another agonizing voyage to Australia, but was betrayed by treacherous islanders and handed over to the
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WW Norton & Co The Great Nowitzki
Book SynopsisA journey into the mindset of a historic basketball superstar, and the importance of his landmark career.Trade Review"All the hours in the gym, all the defeats and victories, all the stories and memories - it takes an author like Thomas Pletzinger to find the right words for my world and my game. I couldn't have wished for a better one." -- Dirk Nowitzki"Pletzinger brings a sense of curiosity and discovery to the story of his German countryman…. He gains his subject’s trust early and carries it through to the finish, after all the cheers have died out and Dirk Nowitzki assumes his full-time role as down-to-earth dude." -- Chris Vognar - Texas Monthly"A meticulously observed, impassioned assessment of Nowitzki’s significance as a basketball player." -- Kirkus Reviews"Nowitzki’s army of fans will devour this well-crafted account of a great player and a decent human being, and other hoops loved will come away happy to have better made his acquaintance." -- Jim Burns - Library Journal"[The Great Nowitzki] works not just as biography but as a story of sporting fame and fandom. Of the symbiotic relationship between a superstar and his city, country and the broad range of people touched by his feats of sporting greatness… [E]ngrossing, engaging and special." -- AllSportsBooks.Reviews
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WW Norton & Co Chop Fry Watch Learn
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WW Norton & Co Free Thinker
Book SynopsisA story of transgression in the face of religious ideology, a sexist scientific establishment and political resistance to securing women's right to voteTrade Review"Free Thinker is as vivid and arresting as its subject. And Helen Hamilton Gardener’s insistent argument, that American women were ‘self-respecting, self-directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own,’ still feels as urgent and as radical as it did a century ago." -- Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University"Free Thinker is an incredible biography of far more than a fascinating woman…A must read for anyone looking for a nuanced view of the complicated legacy of the suffrage movement." -- Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America and South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"Suffragist Helen Hamilton Gardener is someone we need to know…Kimberly A. Hamlin’s careful research, unflinching eye, and storytelling gift reveal how Gardener’s path to the ballot was paved with ideas that ran from free thought and the science of ‘heredity’ to white supremacy. Free Thinker makes plain how suffragists like Gardener left a legacy on voting rights that was uneven at best. We live with its vestiges until today." -- Martha S. Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
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WW Norton & Co Letter to a Young Female Physician
Book SynopsisA poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor.
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WW Norton & Co The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock
Book SynopsisA fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work and lasting influence of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker.Trade Review"Edward White’s The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock is a pinata of literary pleasures. Learned and graceful, thoughtful and provocative, White cracks the Hitchcock code with deft analysis and fine writing. It’s a high-stepping performance full of humor and depth. Walking a tightrope between criticism and biography, White places both the man and his myth in the cultural landscape of his times. In the process, he returns us to the films with a much more informed eye. A book to keep and to return to." -- John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh"A provocative new way of thinking about biography... The radial structure vibrates, like Hitchcock’s best films, with intuition and mystery." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times"Perceptive and gracefully written, “The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock” is a bracing study of the master of suspense... It is a rare book that could pleasurably be twice as long." -- The Economist"White combines his interpretive zest with sensitivity, clarity and knife-sharp phrasing, smartly dedicating each of his 12 chapters to a different facet of the director's personality: the voyeur, the entertainer, the womaniser, the family man… Anatomising someone of Hitchcock's stature risks an equally chaotic frenzy of stabs, but with these 12 scalpel strokes White cuts close to his subject's heart." -- Victoria Segal - The Sunday Times""... innovative biography of Alfred Hitchcock... Tracking Hitchcock's contemporary influence, White is an enterprising tour guide... I was happy to be reminded of Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn, constructed in 2016 on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum in New York... And thanks to White, I went on an excursion to Leytonstone, Hitchcock’s birthplace in east London... I was also pleased to learn from White about the lewd Hitchcock tribute in Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By." -- Peter Conrad - The Observer
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WW Norton & Co Daughter of the Dragon
Book SynopsisA trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Goering
Book SynopsisPublished in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler''s inner circle.Hermann Goering was Hitler''s most loyal supporter, his designated successor and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of the Nazi regime, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Gestapo and directly ordered the Final Solution. But who was the man behind the carefully-constructed mask? Self-indulgent and ruthless, sybaritic and brutal, egotistical yet capable of self-effacement, weak-willed yet fiercely calculating, Goering was a contradictory, complex and often bufoonish character. He styled himself as the ''Iron Man'' but was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits. A brilliant World War I fighter pilot, military leader and mercurial Luftwaffe commander, he also loved the opera and took aTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the 2012 Edition 1. The 'Iron Man' 2. Building the Goering Empire 3. Goering and the German Economy 4. Goering and Hitler's War 5. Building the Nazi Empire 6. The Era of Egotism and Incompetence 7. The Failure of the Luftwaffe 8. The Decline of the Goering Empire 9. Goering and the Politics of the Third Reich Notes Bibliography and Sources Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paulo Freire
Book SynopsisPaulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education and social justice and politics are as relevant today as they ever were. In this book, Walter Omar Kohan interweaves philosophical, educational, and biographical elements of Freire's life which prompt us to reflect on what we thought we knew about Freire, and also on the relationship between education and politics more broadly. It offers a new and timely reading of Freire's work and life. The book is structured around five key themes that provide a new perspective on Freire's work: life, equality, love, errantry and childhood. It includes a contextualization of Freire's work within the past and current political terrain in Brazil, and encourages educators to put themselves and their educational worTrade ReviewKohan has succeeded in the task of presenting very original ideas about the often taken-for-granted Freirean repertoire ... [He] concludes his book with examples and practical suggestions for experimenting with his five Freirean philosophical principles that every educator with enough courage to re-invent their pedagogical model could implement. * International Review of Education *This is not another book about Freire, but a thoughtful thinking from and with Paulo’s intensely lived philosophy-as-education-as-life in which uncertainties -not certainty-, and the political-pedagogical imperatives of questioning and humanity reigned. Necessary reading, without a doubt, for these present times. * Catherine E. Walsh, Distinguished Professor in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador *Offers a fresh an innovative analysis of key postulates in Freire's work, such as Love or Equality, central components of the emancipation logic in Freire's epistemology. Relating them to gnoseological educative principles, this book traces some of Freire's philosophical propaedeutical roots and underscores his relevance today. A tour de force, philosophically confronting how the shadow of dominant educational neoliberal regimes, such as testing and accountability or the logic of possessive individualism as the main aim of education, have failed to emancipate individuals and societies, while also undermining the foundations of the scientific humanism represented in Freire's oeuvre. * Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA *I cannot think of a better book to assist the many educators and scholars seeking inspiration to create pedagogies of freedom. Kohan generously presents paths to move beyond simplistic readings of ineffective, yet, radical-sounding educational models, while beautifully providing a bold and much needed 're-invention' of Freire’s ideas. * Gustavo E. Fischman, Professor of Comparative and International Education, Arizona State University, USA *A major contribution to the voluminous literature on Freire, a magisterial chronicle of Kohan's profound and extensive encounter with life, work and ideas of the 'great educator from Pernumbuco.' It is a work that promises to resonate with readers for years to come. * David Kennedy, Professor of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University, USA *Paulo Freire: A Philosophical Biography is a necessary read. The writing approach is accessible, graced with passion, conviction, wisdom, and a humble intellect. -- James D. Kirylo * Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies *Original and imaginative in the way the discussion around Freire's own ideas are organised thematically ... [A] compelling and lucid book, a fitting monument to Freire on his birth centenary year. -- Peter Mayo * Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies *A sincere work, filled with love and admiration for the greatest educator of our time. -- Peter McLaren * Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies *Table of ContentsForeword, Antonia Darder Acknowledgments A Note on the English Translation, Jason Wozniak, Samuel D. Rocha and Walter Omar Kohan Introduction: Beginnings and Senses of a Reading 1. Life 2. Equality 3. Love 4. Errantry 5. Childhood Epilogue Appendix References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Emperor of the Five Rivers
Book SynopsisIn 1801, at the age of just 20 years old, Ranjit Singh became the Maharaja of the Punjab Empire and subsequently became one of the greatest figures in the history of India. He was a fiercely brave leader, capturing the city of Lahore before becoming Maharaja and overcoming a variety of challenges during his 40-year rule, such as harsh terrain, an ethnically and religiously diverse population and strong aggressors including the British and the Afghans. Despite such challenges, Ranjit Singh was able to unite Punjab's various factions yet rule a nation that was strictly secular: the Maharaja was benevolent to his subjects no matter their ethnicity or religion and sought to promote interfaith unity through policies of equality and non-discrimination. Aside from building his own nation, Ranjit built solid strategic relations with his most challenging aggressor- the British. Through stamina and political will, he managed to establish a formal treaty between the two and secured from 1809 BrTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE RISE TO POWER Chapter 1 The Punjab and Sikhism Chapter 2 The Misls Chapter 3 Ranjit's Childhood Chapter 4 Ruling as a Teenager Chapter 5 Consolidation in Lahore Chapter 6 Reaching out beyond Lahore Chapter 7 Ranjit’s Early Civil and Military Infrastructure Chapter 8 More on Ranjit and His Close Family Chapter 9 Enter the British Chapter 10 Almost War, then a Treaty Chapter 11 First Conquests in the Second Decade Chapter 12 Setback and Victory in Kashmir Chapter 13 Events at the Court PART II: HIGH-POINT Chapter 14 At the Midpoint (i): the Civil State Chapter 15 At the Midpoint (ii): Trade, Industry and the Army Chapter 16 Ranjit’s Secularism Chapter 17 Tales of the Hero Chapter 18 The Third Decade Opens with a Bang Chapter 19 Syed Ahmed, a Fanatical Interloper Chapter 20 Anti-climax after a Grand Summit of Equals Chapter 21 The Nobles Chapter 22 Steadfast against British Provocation Chapter 23 Caught up in the Great Game Chapter 24 Fateful Conclusion with the British Chapter 25 The End of a Great Life PART III: COLLAPSE AND SURVIVAL Chapter 26 Vicious Aftermath Chapter 27 Bloody Finale Chapter 28 Conclusion Postscript Maharaja Dalip Singh Appendices: Themes highlighting the life and times of Ranjit Singh Appendix 1 Education under Ranjit Singh Appendix 2 The Darbar Appendix 3 The variety and tolerance of Punjabi religions Appendix 4 Urban developments. Appendix 5 The Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama Appendix 6 Ranjit Singh’s own words
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hattusili the Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire
Book SynopsisTrevor Bryce is Honorary Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia. He has published over 130 articles and many books including Life and Society in the Hittite World (2004), The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition, 2005), The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History (2012), Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (2014), Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand-Year History (2014), Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction (2016) and Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
£18.99
Blurb My Brother Jack
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Lulu.com Days on the Road
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£20.93
Amberley Publishing Climbing the Seven Volcanoes
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - One morning, when she was very young, Sophie Cairnsâ lungs tried to kill her. Every three months from the age of three to twelve, asthma sent her to hospital, where she slept in an oxygen tent. What makes someone who struggles to breathe seek out the thin air of high-altitude peaks on every continent on earth?
£10.44
Amberley Publishing Man of the World
Book SynopsisJourney through Winston Churchillâs life, filtered through landscapes he encountered in a career almost unimaginable today: Kaiser's Germany days before the Great War; New York the day of the Wall Street Crash; curdled delights of Crimea during Yalta Conference 1945; & French Riviera of post-war years. All left their mark on him, as he did on them.
£19.54
Amberley Publishing The Shadow Emperor
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - NapolÃon III is brought out of the shadows of NapolÃon Bonaparte by a prize-winning historian: âAn excellent biography... In these pages, he emerges as the underwriter of modern Franceâ This workâs perceptive synthesis of recent research... and fast-paced narrative will attract general readers.â Publishers Weekly.
£13.49
Austin Macauley Publishers The River Never Left Her
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Austin Macauley Publishers A Bare Chronicle of Existence
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Walking the Camera in the South Pennines
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£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers I Can Fly in My Dreams Conception to
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£9.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Churchills Admiral in Two World Wars
Book SynopsisA full and detailed biography of Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet and Lord of Zeebrugge and Dover.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Romulus
Book SynopsisFirst modern biography of Rome's eponymous founder.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck
Book SynopsisField Marshal Claude Auchinleck is a study not only of the individual but also of how the British Army, Indian Army and the Empire were transformed during his long military career. Auchinleck was commissioned into the Indian Army from 1904 and served with distinction against the Turks in Egypt and the Mesopotamian campaign, earning a DSO. Between the wars he was involved in the pacification of the Northwest Frontier (now Pakistan). In the Second World War he briefly led a division in the ill-fated Norway campaign before being appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. He is best remembered for his controversial stint in command in North Africa, where he replaced Wavell in July 1941. He halted Rommel at the First Battle of El Alamein but was then replaced by Montgomery and resumed as C-in-C India, where his logistical support for Fourteenth Army was vital to success in Burma. Post-war he planned and oversaw Partition and British withdrawal from India. Here, as in North Africa, interference
£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd An Elizabethan Adventurer
Book SynopsisThis book shines a light on the long-overlooked Sir Anthony Sherley.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Radical Victorians
Book SynopsisA biography focussed history of the working-class men and women who brought fresh ideas to Victorian British society.
£21.25
