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Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839 45.

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A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.

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Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials. Why do their designs diverge so sharply? Vogel compares these two worlds and introduces the reader to his field of biomechanics, explaining how the nexus of physical law, size,...

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A study of child development in terms of systematic and representative imitation, the structure and symbolism of games and dreams, and the movement from sensory-motor schemas to conceptual schemas.

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This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 A.D., came to differ from "Classical civilization."

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Pound, Literary Essays.

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Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.

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Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is...

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"A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review

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An unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her - Jean-Paul Satre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren - de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philo...

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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.

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It seems Jung is usually seen as an idol or is condemned for his failings. Ronald Hayman neither ignores Jung's faults nor exaggerates them. Using a substantial amount of unpublished material Hayman offers an insight into how Jung's ideas grew out...

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Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.

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First Published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bl...

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In this breathtaking lecture, Richard Feynman, one of the century's greatest physicists, uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles. Photos & diagrams.

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A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, author W.G. Sebald's home for more than 20 years, THE RINGS OF SATURN explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past. On the pilgrimage a company of ghosts, like conductors betwee...

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A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's sixth poetry collection confronts, with devastating irony, her father's hollow life and her mother's inability to express emotion. This might seem like a daughter's belated rebellion, except t...

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One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Jacques Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers. Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. His exploration ...

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Judge Caldwell, a comfortably married man for 30 years, has an affair; his stepdaughter comes home after being denied tenure at Harvard; and Judge Caldwell learns of the death of a Dutch philosopher-semanticist. What does all this have to do with ...

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Commerce and migration, television and the Web suggest growing world interconnection, while the proliferation of nation-states and religious divisions tell of separation and conflict. This history grounds both themes in the people and events of th...

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An ideal tool for helping your clients to visualize the complexities of the brain and mental health disordersand a useful refresher for practitioners who find brain anatomy overwhelmingthis color-coded brain puzzle puts it all in perspective, allo...

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A portrait of the head of the Soviet Union whose rule followed Stalin's identifies his impact on the country and the rest of the world, tracing his efforts to reform communism and ease the cold war.

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The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutati...

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Jacques Lacan's writings, and the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a radical reappraisal of the work of Freud. Focusing on psychological concepts developed by Freud, Lacan argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and l...

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Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the ...

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Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.

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Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.

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The essays in this volume show Keynes's attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40.

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Two eminent psychoanalysts discuss the instinctual sources of emotion in normal adults.

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With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human ...

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