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The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealismby Georges Bataille, Michael RichardsonISBN 1844675602 (1-84467-560-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic How Complexity Science Is Changing Architecture and Cultureby Charles JencksISBN 185490406X (1-85490-406-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--ivby AristotleISBN 185326461X (1-85326-461-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--iv'Book summary:Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of those who know'. The Ethics contains his views on what makes a good human life. While the work continues to stimulate and challenge modern philosophers, the general course of the argument is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Both as a key influence in the history of ideas and as a work containing unique insights into the human condition, this is a book that simply demands to be read. [via]
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At the Table of the Grail: No One Who Sets Forth on the Grail Quest Remains Unchangedby John MatthewsISBN 1842930354 (1-84293-035-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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A Brief History Of Paintingby Roy Bolton, Matthew CollingsISBN 184529453X (1-84529-453-X)
Softcover, Book Sales
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Bush In Babylon: The Recolonization Of Iraqby Tariq AliISBN 1844675122 (1-84467-512-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bush In Babylon: The Recolonization Of Iraq'Book summary:Tariq Ali is a novelist, essayist, and BBC commentator who was among the best-known radical student leaders in late 1960s Britain. One of the ways he distinguishes himself from his anti-war contemporaries is via prodigious and multidisciplinary cultural knowledge; he once collaborated with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman on a film about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, for instance. Bush in Babylon benefits greatly from such knowledge. The book is essentially a harsh critique of the way the Bush administration has dealt with Iraq in the wake of 9-11, referred to as "corporate looting." The most captivating chapter centers on the history of Iraqi resistance as exemplified in poetry made by Iraqis in exile. Ali translates important contemporary works by poets who left during Hussein's regime but are still denied entry back into Iraq by Coalition forces. These are works that have traveled from the Internet to the oral tradition, to become instant spoken-word hits, and they provide a fascinating glimpse into the Iraqi situation that one cannot simply find in a daily newspaper in the West or on CNN. Ali's biggest fault is an undisguised disgust for the "imperialist" United States government. When he lists the casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki alongside those in Vietnam with no discussion of the difference between the two events, he alienates many potential fans of his important work. Bush in Babylon has a lot going for it, despite a polemical tone which invariably grates as one marches through this smart, well-researched book. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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Castration: Ideas in Psychoanalysisby Ivan WardISBN 1840464429 (1-84046-442-9)
Softcover, Totem Books
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike Davis, Robert MorrowISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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Collected Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853263974 (1-85326-397-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century. [via]
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The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 185152102X (1-85152-102-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:He was brilliant, flamboyant, and unconventional, one of the great figures of his--or any other--age. Although Oscar Wilde's reputation now rests primarily on his sparkling, sophisticated plays with their razor-sharp wit, his body of work goes far beyond even those. Here, in one volume, is the sum of his artistic genius: all his stories, plays, fairy tales, and poems, complete with period illustrations. To find evidence of Wilde's theatrical savvy, one need look no further than The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, both of which satirize and humorously highlight the hypocrisy of Victorian life. The Picture of Dorian Gray captures a profound knowledge of the depths to which the human soul can plunge, and in the years since it was written, its final moments have lost none of their power. In his fairy stories, including The Happy Prince and Other Tales, written for his own children, Wilde reveals heights of tenderness and beauty. There are classics like the Canterville Ghost and more-more than 850 pages worth! 864 pages (50 in color), 5 3/4 x 8 1/4.[via]More editions of The Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays & Poems of Oscar Wilde:
Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1842050664 (1-84205-066-4)
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Consumption In An Age Of Informationby Sande Cohen, R. L. RutskyISBN 1845200896 (1-84520-089-6)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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Contagious Ideas: On Evolution, Culture, Archaeology, and Cultural Virus Theoryby Ben Sandford CullenISBN 1842170147 (1-84217-014-7)
Softcover, Oxbow Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contagious Ideas: On Evolution, Culture, Archaeology, and Cultural Virus Theory'Book summary:Neo-Darwinism is becoming an increasingly important influence on archaeological theory, as a number of recently edited books on `Darwinian archaeologies' make clear. However, many of these volumes are internationally inconsistent and reflect the muddled understanding many archaeologists have of the potential of Darwin's thought for interpreting material culture. Ben Cullen's book starts by critiquing some recent neo-Darwinist approaches, including cultural evolutionism and cultural sociobiology. He then presents a neo-Darwinian paradigm of extreme power, which he has termed the Cultural Virus Theory (CVT). This focuses on explaining the transmission of ideas by comparing cultural memes wit natural genes. In the final section he takes the important step of applying this theory to real materials; demonstrating how CVT can be used to understand the spread of megalithic monuments in prehistoric North-West Europe, the diffusion of the renaissance in medieval Europe and the basis of stylistic change in pottery. Tragically this collection of brilliant thoughts is published posthumously. Ben Cullen was close to finishing a major book when he died suddenly in 1995 and his writings have been gathered into a consistent whole by James Steele, Richard Cullen and Christopher Chippendale. The book also contains assessments of Ben Cullen's genius by Stephen Shennon and Clive Gamble. [via]
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Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Pastby Julianne PidduckISBN 1844570541 (1-84457-054-1)
Softcover, British Film Inst
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Criticism And Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theoryby Terry EagletonISBN 1844670805 (1-84467-080-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraISBN 1853267953 (1-85326-795-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernismby Steven ShaviroISBN 1852424303 (1-85242-430-3)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 1840681284 (1-84068-128-4)
Softcover, Creation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.' [via]
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The Drag King Book: A First Lookby Judith Halberstam, Del Lagrace VolcanoISBN 1852426071 (1-85242-607-1)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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The Elements of the Chakrasby Naomi OzaniecISBN 1852301740 (1-85230-174-0)
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The English Origins of Old French Literatureby D.R. HowlettISBN 1851821856 (1-85182-185-6)
Hardcover, Four Courts Pr Ltd
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Film Fablesby Jacques Ranciere, Emiliano BattistaISBN 1845201671 (1-84520-167-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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Fire Power: British Army Weapons And Theories Of War, 1904-1945by Shelford Bidwell, Dominick GrahamISBN 1844152162 (1-84415-216-2)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensionsby Edwin A. AbbottISBN 1851680861 (1-85168-086-1)
Softcover, Oneworld Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Foucault and Queer Theoryby Tamsin SpargoISBN 184046092X (1-84046-092-X)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd WardISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions
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Free Association : Ideas in Psychoanalysisby Christopher BollasISBN 184046352X (1-84046-352-X)
Softcover, Icon Books, Limited
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Gay and Afterby Alan SinfieldISBN 1852425881 (1-85242-588-1)
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Guderian: Panzer Generalby Kenneth MackseyISBN 1853675385 (1-85367-538-5)
Hardcover, Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guderian : Panzer General'Book summary:Kenneth Macksey's highly regarded biography of Generaloberst Heinz Guderian gives clear insight into the mind and motives of the father of modern tank warfare. It is now revised and updated and appears as the latest addition to the Greenhill Military[via]More editions of Guderian: Panzer General:
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The Historiesby Herodotus, George RawlinsonISBN 1853264660 (1-85326-466-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. [via]
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History of the Peloponnesian Warby ThucydidesISBN 1853264814 (1-85326-481-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Peloponnesian War'Book summary:Thucydides claimed that his account of the devastating war between the Athenians and the Spartans was a "possession for all time". An Athenian general, he was exiled for a military failure and drew for his writing on his personal experience and information from an extensive network of contacts on both sides to the epic conflict. His work is shaped by his judgements about the exercise of power in a democracy which ruled an empire and by his analysis of the impact of war on the social fabric. Thucydides's technique draws on the culture of his time, including sophist rhetoric, the drama of Greek tragedy and the diagnostic methods of the Hippocratic medical writers. The issues Thucydides addressed are as germane today as they were in the 5th-century BC. [via]
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Hollywood Flatlands : Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Gardeby Esther LeslieISBN 1844675041 (1-84467-504-1)
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Ideas from France: The Legacy of French Theory Ica Documentsby Lisa AppignanesiISBN 1853431133 (1-85343-113-3)
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Infancy And History: On the Destruction of Experienceby Giorgio AgambenISBN 1844675718 (1-84467-571-8)
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The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pactby Chris TurnerISBN 1845203275 (1-84520-327-5)
Hardcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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The Intelligence Of Evil Or The Lucidity Pactby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 1845203348 (1-84520-334-8)
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Introducing Chaosby Ziauddin Sardar, Iwona AbramsISBN 1840460784 (1-84046-078-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Chaos'Book summary:If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Choas, the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory, attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a new science that declares the universe to be far more unpredictable than we have ever imagined. This book explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics, and explores the relationship between chaos and complexity, the new unifying theory which suggests that all complex systems evolve from a few simple rules. This is an accessible introduction to an astonishing and controversial theory that could dramatically change our view of the natural world and our place in a turbulent universe. [via]
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Introducing Chomskyby John C. Maher, Judy Groves, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465891 (1-84046-589-1)
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Introducing Critical Theoryby Leonard Weinberg, Borin Von Loon, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465883 (1-84046-588-3)
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Introducing Foucaultby Chris HorrocksISBN 1840465913 (1-84046-591-3)
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Introducing Joyceby David Norris, Carl Flint, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840461195 (1-84046-119-5)
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Introducing Keynesian Economicsby Chris Garratt, Peter Pugh, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840461578 (1-84046-157-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Keynesian Economics'Book summary:John Maynard Keynes was the most brilliant and infuential economist of the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", overturned the conventional free market vision of the time and proposed that a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors "and" governments. Frightened by mass unemployment, governments throughout the capitalist world pursued Keynesian policies until the late 1970s, when a new economic theory, Monetarism, became fashionable. However, Monetarism was not as successful as its advocates had precdicted, and a Keynesian approach returned to favour. Keynes "remains" the most influential economist of the 20th century. "Introducing Keynesian Economics" lucidly explains the Keynesian revolution and paints a vivid picture of Keynes the man - a brilliant scholar, a colourful member of the Apostles and the Bloomsbury Group, and an open homosexual who later married a ballerina. This book is the ideal introduction to Keynes, for both students and general readers. [via]
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Introducing Lacanby Darian Leader, Judy GrovesISBN 1840466693 (1-84046-669-3)
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Introducing Media Studiesby Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840467185 (1-84046-718-5)
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Introducing Scienceby Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840463589 (1-84046-358-9)
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Introducing Semioticsby Litza Jansz, Martha Day, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465840 (1-84046-584-0)
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Introducing Sociologyby Borin Van Loon, Don Shiach, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465832 (1-84046-583-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Sociology'Book summary:What is sociology? Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or in some cases, does not function. Various competing schools of sociology have attempted to fit observations of social phenomena into different conceptual systems. This book traces the origins of these systems from Enlightenment thought and the pioneering work of Auguste Comte to subsequent developments in Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim and Marx Weber. The rapid expansion of sociology in 20th -century America and Britain, the post-World War II dominance of Talcott Parsons, the Chicago School and the rise of Structuralism are outlined in a clear, graphic form. The book also examines the array of concepts and methods of research that have been applied to the study of society by the key analysts, and is essential reading for students of the subject and for anyone interested in understanding the functioning of society. [via]
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Introducing the Freud Warsby Stephen Wilson, Richard Appignanesi, Oscar ZarateISBN 1840463813 (1-84046-381-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing the Freud Wars'Book summary:Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract scandal, outrage and scientific suspicion. Was he a psychological genius or a peddler of humbug? Despite his atheism, did he invent a new religious cult? Is he to blame for disguising the prevalence of sexual abuse? Is there an Oedipus Complex? Was he a drug addict? A wittily illustrated glimpse behind the demonised myths to the heart of a red-hot debate. [via]
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Introducing Wittgensteinby John HeatonISBN 1840466413 (1-84046-641-3)
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Iraq: The Borrowed Kettleby Slavoj ZizekISBN 1844675408 (1-84467-540-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 1853260207 (1-85326-020-7)
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Jungian Thought in the Modern Worldby Elphis Christopher, Hester SolomonISBN 1853434671 (1-85343-467-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jungian Thought in the Modern World'Book summary:C.G. Jung (1875-1961) was a man of the millennium. His personal history parallels the history of the last century and is especially relevant to the current movement where themes not only from the last century but also the last millennium are being gathered in anticipation of the new era. Jung's life and work touch on the past century's two major themes: on the one hand, the discovery and mapping of the unconscious, an internal source of creativity and destruction for each individual; and, on the other hand, those outbreaks of dreadful violence and expressions of awesome creativity that can erupt from within the unconscious of humankind as a whole. [via]
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Late Marxism: Adorno Or, the Persistence of the Dialecticby Fredric JamesonISBN 1844675750 (1-84467-575-0)
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Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Ackerby Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman, Avital RonellISBN 184467066X (1-84467-066-X)
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Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital Ronell's erudite meditation on friendship and mourning. Together these essays by scholars and writers reveal Acker's profound and innovative project, and the ways in which fiction can penetrate the heart of political and cultural life.
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Metapoliticsby Alain Badiou, Jason BarkerISBN 184467567X (1-84467-567-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Millennium Cultureby Nell LeachISBN 1841660256 (1-84166-025-6)
Softcover, Ellipsis London, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Millennium Culture'Book summary:Opening with the pleasing contention (from Baudrillard) that the year 2000 will not happen, Millennium Culture focuses on the current importance of the visual and virtual experience, exemplified in the sublimely huge but ontologically vacant Millennium Dome. The book examines significant outpourings of contemporary culture - including religion, hypermarkets, the lottery, Teletubbies, technology, wallpaper culture, Jerry Springer, powder skiing and Saint Diana. Photographs by Katja Hock run throughout the book, conjuring up a series of preoccupations that represent a snapshot of contemporary culture. Leach expounds the full implication of The Millennium Dome Experience, and uses the 'circular temple to nothing in particular' as a central image to his discussion of the collapse of reality. But the book is not entirely negative, and seeks to redeem a positive role for the surface image as the site of identification in an increasingly meaningless world. [via]
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Modernism : Modernist Design, 1880-1940by Alastair DuncanISBN 1851492747 (1-85149-274-7)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors' Club
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Music, Mysticism and Magic: A Source Bookby Joscelyn GodwinISBN 1850630402 (1-85063-040-2)
Hardcover, Arkana
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New Relations: 00E Refashioning of British Poetry, 1980-1994by David KennedyISBN 1854111639 (1-85411-163-9)
Softcover, Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd
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Philosophy in the Boudoirby Marquis De SadeISBN 1840680121 (1-84068-012-1)
Softcover, Creation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy in the Boudoir'Book summary:This new Creation Books edition couples this erotic masterpiece with The Lusts of the Libertines, a document taken from 120 Days of Sodom, in which de Sade's depraved imagination is given free reign to catalogue 447 of the wildest depravities and atrocities he can conceive, from incest and coprophilia through to mutilation, torture and bloody murder. Originally intended to be fleshed out later, their reduction to numbered lists seems to render them even more intense and confrontational.
Philosophy of the Boudoir is perhaps the most representative text out of all the Marquis de Sade's works. In the boudoir of a sequestered country house, a young virgin is ruthlessly schooled in the ways of sexual perversion, fornication, murder, incest and complete self-gratification which culminates with the final and most shocking act of liberation carried out on her own mother.
Within these pages lies de Sade's notorious doctrine of libertinage expounded in full and coupled with liberal doses of savage, unbridled eroticism, cruelty and violent sexuality. [via]
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Philosophy In The Boudoir: Minski The Cruelby Marquis De SadeISBN 1840681039 (1-84068-103-9)
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This new edition includes Minski the Cruel, a brand-new, unexpurgated translation of a key episode from de Sade's Juliette.
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Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87by Louis Althusser, Francois Matheron, Oliver CorpetISBN 184467553X (1-84467-553-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a "philosophy of the encounter," which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.
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Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformistsby Raymond WilliamsISBN 1844675807 (1-84467-580-7)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Postmodernism and Holocaust Denialby Robert EaglestoneISBN 1840462345 (1-84046-234-5)
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Postmodernism: Ica Documentsby Lisa AppignanesiISBN 1853430781 (1-85343-078-1)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Pre-Industrial Societiesby Patricia CroneISBN 1851683119 (1-85168-311-9)
Softcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning And Violenceby Judith ButlerISBN 1844675440 (1-84467-544-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice. [via]More editions of Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning And Violence:
Reading Sex and the Cityby Kim AkassISBN 1850434239 (1-85043-423-9)
Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Reading the L Word: Outing Contemporary Televisionby Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Sarah WarnISBN 1845111796 (1-84511-179-6)
Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Relationship Development Intervention With Children Adolescents and Adultsby Steven E. Gutstein, Rachelle K. SheelyISBN 1843107171 (1-84310-717-1)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relationship Development Intervention With Children Adolescents and Adults'Book summary:Remove our emotional bonds with family, colleagues and friends and few of us would want to go on living. Yet establishing and maintaining such bonds is particularly difficult for people on the autism spectrum. This volume contains over 200 activities and exercises ranging over the entire gamut of social and emotional development, and is applicable to anyone, regardless of diagnosis, but will be particularly valuable for those on the autism spectrum. Activities can be undertaken independently, or with a teacher or therapist, and a full schema for the evaluation of progress and objectives is included. A companion website provides a wealth of further information and support. [via]
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Rommel As a Military Commanderby Ronald LewinISBN 1844150402 (1-84415-040-2)
Softcover, Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Rommel: In His Own Wordsby John PimlottISBN 1853671851 (1-85367-185-1)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 1844083772 (1-84408-377-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sadeian Woman'Book summary:[via]"Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality. This is a world where all tenderness is false, and all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, celebrated novelist Angela Carter takes on these figments of his extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our timethe Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a stunning vision of love that admits neither the conqueror nor the conquered. It is a dazzling meditation on women's sexual freedom.More editions of The Sadeian Woman:
Sadomasochismby Estela Welldon, Ivan WardISBN 1840463783 (1-84046-378-3)
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The Secret History of Lucifer: The Ancient Path to Knowledge and the Real Da Vinci Codeby Lynn PicknettISBN 1841199389 (1-84119-938-9)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. Lawrence, Angus CalderISBN 1853264695 (1-85326-469-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'Book summary:This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa World War I. Lawrence has a novelist's eye for detail, a poet's command of the language, an adventurer's heart, a soldier's great story, and his memory and intellect are at least as good as all those. Lawrence describes the famous guerrilla raids, and train bombings you know from the movie, but also tells of the Arab people and politics with great penetration. Moreover, he is witty, always aware of the ethical tightrope that the English walked in the Middle East and always willing to include himself in his own withering insight. [via]
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A Short History Of Progressby Ronald WrightISBN 1841957119 (1-84195-711-9)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Progress'Book summary:No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. In five lucid, meticulously documented essays, Wright traces the rise and plummet of four regional civilizations--those of Sumer, Rome, Easter Island, and the Maya--and judges that most, perhaps all, of humanity is making and will continue to make mistakes equally disastrous as theirs. He gives general reasons first for not reckoning we'll pull back from the brink. Important among them is an anthropological observation. As individuals, we live long lives. We evolve more slowly than we should, given our lack of vision and our aggressive, selfish nature. We seem to lack the collective wisdom and the insight into cause and effect to realize the limits to what Wright calls the "experiment" of civilization. What Wright calls natural "subsidies" underwrite civilizations' successes. The squandering of those gifts presages inevitable failure, but with careful, canny stewardship, a civilization can manage to muddle through eons. Wright cites Egypt's submission to the limits set by the Nile's annual floods and China's windblown "lump-sum deposit" of topsoil, used for hillside paddies instead of being put to the plough. Wright observes with unrelenting eloquence that our planetary civilization lives precariously, far beyond its means. "Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes," he acknowledges, neither claiming nor wanting to be a prophet. We certainly have the tools for change and remediation; we also know what our ancestors did wrong and what happened to them. We're faced, our author observes, with two choices: either do nothing--what he calls "one of the biggest mistakes"--or try to effect "the transition from short-term to long-term thinking." His evidence suggests we're taking the first alternative, which will include a swift, final ride into the dark future on the runaway train of progress. Wright's account tempts one to bet on the rats and roaches. --Ted Whittaker [via]
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The Tempestby William ShakespeareISBN 185326203X (1-85326-203-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Theory & Experimentationby Andreas C. PapadakisISBN 1854901389 (1-85490-138-9)
Softcover, Academy Editions Ltd
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Thinking Past Terror: Islamism And Critical Theory on the Leftby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 1844675629 (1-84467-562-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Understanding Children's Sandplay: Lowenfeld's World Techniqueby Margaret LowenfeldISBN 1845190823 (1-84519-082-3)
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Why the Germans Lose at War: The Myth of German Military Superiorityby Kenneth MacKseyISBN 1853673838 (1-85367-383-8)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Ageby Barry Brown, Nicola Green, Richard HarperISBN 1852334770 (1-85233-477-0)
Softcover, Springer
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1853264253 (1-85326-425-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:This is a collection of the poetic works of Oscar Wilde. The majority of these poems were written before he was 27, with a handful of impressionistic lyrics and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" written later. Wilde applies different slants to established forms. [via]
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Writing As Sculpture: 1878-1987by Louwrien WijersISBN 1854901842 (1-85490-184-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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