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Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Inbunden, 2005
288 kr
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This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the …
Englishman's Home Is His Car Park
Slovenliness as a Way of Life
Häftad, 2026
186 kr
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How did Britain become a nation seemingly addicted to indifference? In this drily witty book, Theodore Dalrymple finds a culture inclined to performative behaviour rather than results through a series of sharp and entertaining vignettes. From paved-over front gardens that become car parks to the …
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder
Agatha Christie as Philosopher
Häftad, 2026
210 kr
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The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her “mawkishness and banality” and declared her work “literally impossible to read.” Even if this were so, that Agatha Christie’s books were mere trash of no intellectual substance whatever, the fact that they were (and …
Pleasure of Thinking
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for …
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview that Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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Now in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple."A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R's." -Thomas SowellAs a British …
In Praise of Prejudice
How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
Inbunden, 2007
257 kr
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Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only …
Admirable Evasions
How Psychology Undermines Morality
E-bok, 2015
292 kr
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In Admirable Evasions , Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues …
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Häftad, 2007
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192 kr
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This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the …
Best Medicine
Stories of Healing
2021
258 kr
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An inspired anthology in stunning hardcover about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers—featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore. This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and …
Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
Inbunden, 2008
452 kr
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Romancing Opiates
Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them …
In Praise of Prejudice
How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
E-bok, 2007
225 kr
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Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only …
New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
E-bok, 2010
366 kr
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Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On …
New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Häftad, 2011
171 kr
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Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On …
New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On …
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
E-bok, 2008
191 kr
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Theodore Dalrymple''s brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What''s Left of It . No writer today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of …
False Positive
A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine
Inbunden, 2019
241 kr
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The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the world. Doctors rely on the conclusions it publishes, and most do not have the time to look beyond abstracts to examine methodology or question assumptions. Many of its pronouncements are conveyed by the …
False Positive
A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine
E-bok, 2019
355 kr
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The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the world. Doctors rely on the conclusions it publishes, and most do not have the time to look beyond abstracts to examine methodology or question assumptions. Many of its pronouncements are conveyed by the …
Admirable Evasions
How Psychology Undermines Morality
Häftad, 2020
189 kr
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In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, …
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder
E-bok, 2026
288 kr
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The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her mawkishness and banality and declared her work literally impossible to read. Even if this were so, that Agatha Christies books were mere trash of no intellectual substance whatever, the fact that they were (and are) …
