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Bettelheim, Bruno Freud's Vienna and Other Essays
Alfred A Knopf Inc 1990 0394572092 / 9780394572093 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. Small remainder mark on top of book. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 285 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears). Synopsis In books like The Uses of Enchantment, Freud and Man's Soul, and Surviving and Other Essays, the celebrated psychologist Bruno Bettelheim has pursued meaning everywhere from children's fairy tales to the death camps of the Holocaust, where he himself was incarcerated in 1938. Now, in a collection whose subjects range from fin de siecle Vienna to the myth of the "wolf boy" to contemporary children's television, he brings together the themes and experiences of a lifetime's search for understanding. Annotation Eighteen essays by the famous psychoanalyst about cultural, intellectual and emotional experiences that shaped his life; a passionate defense of Freud's humanism. Publishers Weekly Combining humanistic wisdom and clinical insight, this gathering of 18 essays reflects eminent psychoanalyst Bettelheim's concerns as both child therapist and Holocaust survivor. One provocative piece profiles Sabina Spielrein, who supposedly had a secret affair with her therapist Carl Jung, a relationship said to have played a role in Jung's breakup with Freud. Other outstanding pieces cover Bettelheim's visit to Dachau extermination camp in 1955, where he had been a prisoner; and explore sex and death in his native Vienna, birthplace of psychoanalysis. Bettelheim writes movingly of Miep Gies, the woman who sheltered Anne Frank from the Nazis. Articles on movies as an art form, and on children in relation to TV, museums and cities are bland. Bettelheim concludes with a revision of his 1962 attack on ``Jewish ghetto thinking,'' which he claims led to passivity and resignation on the part of Holocaust victims--a viewpoint challenged by many historians.
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Bondeson, Jan The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
Cornell Univ Pr 1999 0801436095 / 9780801436093 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Very-nicely illustrated throughout. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Synopsis In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recountsand in some instances solves - mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings, The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of animals: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and, of course, the extraordinary creature known as the Feejee Mermaid. Bondeson demonstrates that belief in this fabulous creature resulted from misinterpretations of rare events in natural history. The vegetable lamb, a mainstay of museums in the seventeenth century, was allegedly half plant, half animal: it had the shape of a little lamb, but grew from a stem. After examining two vegetable lambs still in London today, Bondeson offers a new theory to explain this old fallacy. Scientific American Zoological curiositiessome real and some legendary but credited as real by gullible folkare Bondeson's subject..... Bondeson supplies plenty of pictures of his subjects and the often fanciful claims made for them.
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Brown, Larry Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula
Touchstone Books 2002 0743225244 / 9780743225243 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
UNREAD copy - Purchased new at University Bookstore - unused. NO price clippings - Remainder mark on bottom. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - 205 pages - In Billy Ray's Farm, Larry Brown brings the appealing blend of candor, humor, and poignancy of his acclaimed novels Fay and Father and Son to nine personal essays that explore the emotional and physical landscape of the corner of Mississippi he calls home. The centerpiece of this collection offers a moving description of life on his son's cattle farm, capturing Brown's deep-seated attachment to his family and to the land. In other pieces, Brown takes readers inside the writing cabin he built, chronicles his attempt to outsmart a wily coyote intent on killing the farm's baby goats, and reveals his reactions to being constantly compared to William Faulkner, a writer inspired by the same geography. Threaded through each piece are warm reflections on the Southern musicians and authors who influenced his writings. At once entertaining and insightful, Billy Ray's Farm brilliantly illuminates how a great writer responds, personally and artistically, to the patch of land he lives on, providing a wonderful look into the mysterious sources of a writer's motivation. Author Description Larry Brown is the author of eight books, including Fay, Father and Son, and the memoir On Fire. He received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and the Southern Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1992 and 1997. He received the University of North Carolina's second Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lectureship. He lives near Oxford, Mississippi.
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Burnford, Sheila The Fields Of Noon
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company 1964 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $4.50. 175 pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright). ONLY writing/mark inside book is gift inscription in book front on blank page (IN PENCIL). NO tears inside book. Pages show only slight tanning.
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Coetzee, J. M. Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 2001 0670899828 / 9780670899821 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 295 pages. Synopsis: Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants of late-twentieth-century literature, among them Brodsky, Gordimer, Rushdie, and Lessing.
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Coles, Robert The Mind's Fate: Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Little, Brown 1975 0316151793 / 9780316151795 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. 282 pages. NO tears inside book. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's signature in book front (James P. Orr). Dustcover is clean - shows 1 very-small, closed tear. Green boards with gilt lettering (clean - shows light sun-fading along edges. Tight spine, bright pages.
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Cowley, Robert (Editor) What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Putnam Pub Group 1999 0399145761 / 9780399145766 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $27.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated with maps. 395 pages. Illustrated with maps. Illustrated endpapers. Synopsis Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-its of history. In these twenty never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining.. "In addition to the essays, fifteen sidebars by such authors as Caleb Carr, Tom Wicker, David Fromkin, and Ted Morgan illuminate in brief other world-changing episodes. Entertainment Weekly Since chance, error, and the weather deserve as much credit as humans for the mess known as history, its fair to ask historians for a retake. What If? Imagine the narrowly missed possibilities of a Muslim Europe, a Mongol Europe, a permanently Confederate South, a 20th century in which names Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao mean nothing, or a triumphant Nazi Reich or Japanese Empire. You'll have the vertigo-inducing sense that everything, you and me included, could have been very, very different. Grade: A.
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Darnton, Robert The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Random House Inc / Vintage Books 1985 0394729277 / 9780394729275 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 300 pages. Synopsis: When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century version of "Little Red Riding Hood" did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton attempts to answer in this dazzling series of essays that probe the ways of thought in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." Biography: Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. A MacArthur Fellow, he is the author of the National Book Critics Circle award-winning The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Davies, Robertson; Davies, Brenda; Surridge, Jennifer Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 1998 0670880191 / 9780670880195 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $27.95 - Stated First American Edition - A posthumous treasury of brilliant essays that shines with Davies's unmistakable wit, erudition, and magic. One of Canada's--and the world's--most beloved authors, Robertson Davies was also a devoted fan of opera and the theater. In this follow-up to his first posthumous collection, A Merry Heart, Davies ruminates on these lifelong passions, offering a diverse sampling of personal reflections on everything from the ancient Greeks to Lewis Carroll, Scottish folklore to Laurence Olivier, the sins of Verdi to the virtues of melodrama. The combined effect of these thirty-three essays, lectures, plays, and librettos-- edited by his widow and daughter--is true alchemy, as "readers . . . come away with a renewed appreciation of the ease with which Davies routinely transformed his sometimes erudite passions into delightful entertainments"
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Dick, David The View from Plum Lick
North Middletown, Kentucky, U.S.A. Plum Lick Pub 1997 0963288660 / 9780963288660 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine Larkins, Jackie Signed by Author
A photo of this book is available. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author, on title page. ONLY other writing in book is previous owner's signature in book front (blacked-out) and notation on blank page - also in book front. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears). Green boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright). 227 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO tears inside book. Illustrated by Jackie Larkins.
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Dorris, Michael Paper Trail: Essays
HarperCollins 1994 0060169710 / 9780060169718 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.00. Tight spine, bright pages. Last page in back (blank) of book has light-pencil notes. Can be erased easily. NO other writing or marks inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Previous owner's name label (small) in book front on blank page (Kathy Burkholder - Greenfield, Illinois. NO tears inside book. 371 pages. Synopsis: Over the years, Michael Dorris award-winning anthropologist, nonfiction writer, and bestselling novelist has written essays on a remarkably wide range of topics reflective of the many hats he has worn: father, son, and husband; scholar, professor, and student; writer; critic; activist; traveler; and observer. His pieces have appeared everywhere from the "New York Times" to "Ladies' Home Journal" to "Booklist." In "Paper Trail," Dorris reminisces about the mother and grandmother who raised him, recalling the time he and his mother went backstage in Louisville to meet Tyrone Power. He wrestles with the painful recognition of his adopted son's affliction with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He gives keen insights into contemporary Native American issues. And he explores the backroads of America, all the while entertaining, inspiring, and engaging us with his humor, anger, and awe. A remarkably diverse collection; one that offers the unique perspectives of Michael Dorris. 'By turns charming, provocative, impassioned and deeply moving' NY Times Book Review
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Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter (Editors) The New Palgrave: Money
W W Norton & Co Inc 1989 0393958515 / 9780393958515 Trade Paperback Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are bright and clean (NO tears). Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 340 pages. Synopsis This volume follows the course of the debate from the Bullionist Controversy of the Napoleonic period through the perennial arguments over the gold standard to the dispute between Keynesians, monetarist, and 'new classical macroeconomists, ' tracing the evolution of theory and doctrine over nearly 200 years.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo Essays
New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1900 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-good copy of this vintage hardback. Stated FIRST SERIES. 223 pages. NO copyright date indicated - circa 1900. Frontispiece photo of Emerson. Maroon boards with gilt lettering (clean - show light wear). ONLY writing inside book is previous owner's name in book front on blank page (Roy Riffey - Virde Illinois). Tight spine, clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show light wear. NO tears inside book. CONTENTS: History; Self-Reliance; Compensation; Spiritual Laws; Love; Friendship; Prudence; Heroism; The Over-Soul; Intellect; Art.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo Selected Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peoples Book Club 1959 Hard Cover Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Oschman, Walter S.
Dark-blue boards show wear, scuffing and slight tear at top of spine. 328 pages. Tight spine - Clean pages - Illustrated. 1 small tear inside book - on very-first page (upper-right-hand corner / non-text area). NO remainder marks or price clippings.
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