Creator: et al
Publication date: 1997-11-27
Review John Donne: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:This collection of John Donne's poetry contains love poems, elegies, metaphysical verse, and offers sections from the "Satires" and the "Epithalamions". It includes a biographical narrative placing each poem in context and illuminating its significance.
Creator: Geoffrey Cocks
Publication date: 1994-08-15
Dewey code: 150.195092
Price: $55.00
Review The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981 / University Of Chicago Press:Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of this century's most important intellectuals. A rebel, according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. His success in treating narcissistic disorders and his highly influential book How Does Analysis Cure? established Kohut's Self Psychology as the strongest rival to traditional psychoanalysis today. The Curve of Life reveals Kohut's private and public life through a unique collection of lively and thoughtful correspondence with colleagues, public figures, family, and close friends. Over 300 never-before-published letters, drawn from Kohut's private files and from colleagues, cover Kohut's life from his native Austria in the 1930s until his death in 1981. Because many of his letters were so substantive, this rich collection clarifies Kohut's landmark published works. In letters to such diverse personalities as Anna Freud and Bruno Walter, Kohut meditated on some of the most intriguing psychoanalytic questions of the day—the nature of psychological cure, the relationship between doctor and patient, and the role of the Oedipus complex in psychoanalysis. The correspondence also reveals Kohut's lively interest in literature, music, history, and culture, as well as his deep and often contentious involvement in the politics of the psychoanalytic movement. Kohut discussed his theories in letters to August Aichhorn, Heinz Hartmann, the Surgeon General, and even Jacqueline Kennedy, and the responses, some published here for the first time, prompted him to explore his ideas from a variety of perspectives. A letter from Anna Freud provoked Kohut to respond this way:"What you had to say gave me great pleasure, and your approval was a welcome support amidst the inescapable insecurities under pressure to which we are all exposed. [+]Strangely enough, it was not the discussion of scientific contributions and other statements that I had sent to you but the very last, parting sentence of your letter which gave me the most food for thought. You sent me your best wishes for the presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and expressed the hope that '. this office permits opportunity for some revolutionary moves. '"The Curve of Life illuminates the evolution of Kohut's theory of the psychology of the self, and provides a rare glimpse into the institutional and intellectual history of psychoanalysis in the last half of this century. These letters will fascinate not only scholars in psychoanalysis, but also those in the humanities, social sciences, and even theology, as well as general readers curious about the private thoughts of a towering figure in intellectual life.
Authors
- Berlin, Germany Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Review Saemtliche Schriften Und Briefe: Allgemeiner, Politischer Und Historischer Briefwechsel, 1: 1668-1676 1 / Wiley-VCH:Part of an edition of the complete writings and letters of Leibniz, this volume presents his general, political and historical correspondence in the original languages - Latin, French, German or English - of the period 1668-1676. The correspondence is of special importance as Leibniz was not a writer of the great systematic treatise and his ideas are often hidden somewhere in his letters.
Publication date: 1936-12-31
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $395.00
Price: $395.00
Review Le Mariage de Loti /illustrations de J.g. Domergue / Loti's Marriage / French & European Pubns:
Creator: Rita C. Severis
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 266.51092
List Price: $320.00
Price: $311.50
Review The Diaries of Lorenzo Warriner Pease, 1834-1839: An American Missionary in Cyprus and His Travels in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Greece / Ashgate Pub Ltd:Lorenzo Warriner Pease was sent as an American missionary to Cyprus, arriving there on 25 November 1834; he died in August 1839. His 11 manuscript diaries, now preserved in the Union Theological Seminary in New York, cover his journey to Cyprus, his time and travels there, and his extended visits to Syria, the Lebanon and Palestine, and to Greece. Rita Severis's edition of these diaries, with introduction and notes, makes this source available, and is illustrated with engravings and pictures of the period. This was a time of change in the area: Pease saw the arrival of King Otto in the new Greek kingdom; he commented on the turbulent affairs of the Near East under Muhammad Ali; he was himself involved in the movement for social and intellectual reform in Cyprus. Keenly observant, curious, well-educated and a born linguist, Pease filled his diaries with accounts of the places and people he saw - customs, monuments, education and religious life, metereology and geology: for much he provides a unique and well-informed witness. He writes, too, of his mission, of the work of his fellow missionaries within the Ottoman Empire, and of his family - two of his children lie buried with him in Cyprus.
Creator: Richard Avedon
Publication date: 1993-10-21
Review An Autobiography: The Photographs of Richard Avedon / Jonathan Cape:
Creator: Roy M. Mersky
Publication date: 2004-12
Dewey code: 347.732634
Price: $69.95
Review The First One Hundred Eight Justices / William S. Hein & Company:
Publication date: 1997-11-13
Dewey code: 624.092
Price: $100.00
Review Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist / Cambridge University Press:This comprehensive biography traces the life and works of Robert Maillart, one of the most important engineers and designers of the twentieth century. His career developed around a central issue of modern technological society: the debate between two antithetical views of engineering opposing applied science, which relied on general mathematical theories for understanding structures against design, which Maillart championed. Maillart considered structures not merely works of utility but also as works of art. As utilitarian objects, he created a series of innovations of lasting significance. Aesthetically, Maillart shaped his three innovations in concrete to create surprising and often stunning new forms. Providing an analysis of these innovations, this biography also connects Maillart's aesthetic ideas with the private and professional context in which he worked.
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $431.50
Price: $315.00
Review First Biographies / Pebble Books:
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $103.30
Review Exhibit A: Guy Bourdin / Jonathan Cape Ltd:Guy Bourdin, who died in 1991, was a legend in the world of fashion photography. He was the most radical and audacious photographer of his generation but his reputation has been surrounded in secrecy - he rarely allowed his photographs to appear outside the pages of French Vogue. No book of his work has previously been published. His estate was frozen by the courts until 1997, after which his son, Samuel, gained control of his work as a result of which this long-awaited book can be published. Bourdin was originally a painter and a friend of Man Ray. His fashion photographs began to incorporate his surrealist influences. Fashion photography became an arena for his personal obsessions. The results are as shocking and astonishing as any commercial photograph ever published. They were executed meticulously. Despite his intense eroticism, subversion and, as Cecil Beaton described, 'his grotesque little gamines', Beaton referred to him in 1975 as 'unquestionably the most interesting fashion photographer in Paris today'. [+]His work was said to have represented 'the look of an era - glamorous, hard-edged, cleverly spiced with vulgarity. rich with implied narratives and strong erotic undercurrents'.
Publication date: 1992-06-16
Dewey code: 305.8009542
List Price: $45.00
Price: $317.15
Review Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras / University of California Press:"Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectual adapts to the field and builds deeply affecting relationships with strangers. She discloses what it is like to be a native researching her own culture, offering her fieldwork memoirs in all their spontaneity and candor. We see Banaras through her eyes when she first arrives: throngs of people, cramped and dark lodgings, unappetizing food, mischievous monkeys, and almost overwhelming filth. But as she establishes friendships, we are treated to her discoveries not only about the city and its people, but also about her place in this society. The familiar problems that face most anthropologists conducting fieldwork-of Self versus Other, objectivity versus bias, familiar circumstances versus new and dismaying ones-are given a surprising and complex dimension. Through a narration of her own experiences, the author demonstrates how personal locations-habits, preferences, expectations deriving from childhood memories, and areas of ignorance-impose themselves on the process of selection, observation, and interpretation in research.
Publication date: 2008-02-25
Dewey code: 759
Price: $170.00
Review Valerio Castello (Archivi Di Arte Antica) / Umberto Allemandi:Valerio Castello (1624-1659), the son of Mannerist painter Bernardo, is undoubtedly one of the foremost painters of seventeenth-century Genoa, despite the fact that his career was brought to an untimely end by his death at the age of just thirty-five. After his initial interest in naturalism, Castello became famous for his mythological and religious subjects, which he rendered with intense colours and highly dramatic compositions in drawings, engravings, frescoes and canvases, paving the way for the great age of Baroque in Genoa. His works are now in the most prominent museums in Italy and abroad (The Rape of the Sabines, Uffizi, Florence; Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist, National Gallery, London; The Massacre of the innocents, Hermitage, St Petersburg) and in important private collections. This is a major and definitive work on the artist, with an analysis of his successors among collectors and admirers down the centuries, and a complete catalogue of his works and professional relationsh.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995
Review Death of a Lady's Man / Black Spring Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-04
Price: $311.49
Review Selections from "Giovanni Seipi at Home": By Joseph Finn OHF / Seven Towers Ltd:
Publication date: 1984-08
Dewey code: 510.924
Price: $50.00
Review Eye of the Hurricane: An Autobiography / World Scientific Pub Co Inc:
Publication date: 2003-10-03
List Price: $22.50
Price: $319.60
Review Brotinn er nú bærinn minn: endurminningar / PublishAmerica:? ¾essum endurminningum segir H¡kon fr¡ fyrstu ¦vi¡rum snum V°um Reykjadal. Fr¡ heimilis—og venslaf³lki ¾ar og n¡gr¶nnum. Hann l½sir tuttugu ¡ra bºsetu ¡ Brettingsst¶°um Lax¡rdal. Inn ¾¡ fr¡s¶gn fl©ttar hann l½singu ¡ sta°h¡ttum og bºskaparlagi. Einnig segir hann fr¡ m¶rgu samfer°af³lki snu, sveitasamf©lagi tuttugustu aldar, og fr¡ minnisst¦°um atbur°um. H¡kon segir fr¡ dv¶l sinni Reykjavk, ¡ millistr°s¡runum, ¾ar sem hann nam orgelleik. Hann l½sir bºskapar¡rum snum ¡ Tj¶rnesi og ½msu ¾eim tengdum. Einnig segir hann fr¡ bºsetu, st¶rfum og f³lki ¡ Hºsavk og Reykjadal. S°ast, en ekki sst, segir hann fr¡ t³nlistarlfi heimah¶gum ¡ fyrri helmingi tuttugustu aldar. Einnig fr¡ ¡ratugalangri ¾¡ttt¶ku sinni t³nlistarlfi Su°ur-žingeyinga, nº s°ast me° harmonkuf©laginu ¾ar. [+]H¡kon er enn virkur ¾¡tttakandi st¶rfum ¾ess, kominn vel ¡ nr¦°isaldur.
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $33.05
Price: $317.06
Review Summer Lightning / Amber Waves:
Authors
- Jane R. Pomeroy
- Alexander Anderson
Dewey code: 016.76992
List Price: $350.00
Price: $350.00
Review Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870, Wood Engraver And Illustrator, an Annotated Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography / Oak Knoll Press:
Creator: Howard R. Vane
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 330.0922
List Price: $425.00
Price: $316.96
Review Who's Who in Economics / Edward Elgar Publishing:This major reference work, now in its fourth edition, is an extensive and authoritative guide to the most frequently cited academic economists throughout the world. As with the previous editions, each of the entries is written by the entrants themselves and gives pertinent biographical data, principal fields of interest, chief publications and a statement of their principal contributions to economics as they - and not the editors - perceive them. This edition only includes living economists whose articles published in the period 1990-2000 have been most frequently cited and as such it is the most up-to-date biographical dictionary of the leading players in the economics profession.
Publication date: 2006
Review The Works of John Adams (Volumes 1 & 2) (Leather Bound):
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John Donne: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics), The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981, Saemtliche Schriften Und Briefe: Allgemeiner, Politischer Und Historischer Briefwechsel, 1: 1668-1676 1, Le Mariage de Loti /illustrations de J.g. Domergue / Loti's Marriage, The Diaries of Lorenzo Warriner Pease, 1834-1839: An American Missionary in Cyprus and His Travels in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Greece, An Autobiography: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, The First One Hundred Eight Justices, Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist, First Biographies, Exhibit A: Guy Bourdin, Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras, Valerio Castello (Archivi Di Arte Antica), Death of a Lady's Man, Selections from "Giovanni Seipi at Home": By Joseph Finn OHF, Eye of the Hurricane: An Autobiography, Brotinn er nú bærinn minn: endurminningar, Summer Lightning, Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870, Wood Engraver And Illustrator, an Annotated Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography, Who's Who in Economics, The Works of John Adams (Volumes 1 & 2) (Leather Bound)Top headlines: NYT: Obama plots green jolt to economy: NYT: President-elect Barack Obama and leaders in Congress are fashioning a plan to pour billions of dollars into a jobs program to jolt the economy and lay the groundwork for a more energy-efficient economy. ›02:40 Experts offer range of ideas for Big Three: Auto industry experts have a wide range of ideas on how to fix the problems facing the Big Three, ranging from higher gas taxes to bankruptcy. 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