Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Freud's core conviction that our innermost truths manifest only as distortions.

How to Read Freud

Literature & Fiction

Cohen, Josh

History & Criticism

W.W.Norton

Josh Cohen - Freedom Solo Bass Transcriptions is a complete set of transcriptions with both tablature and notation for the multi-award winning solo bassist Josh Cohen’s second album 'Freedom'. Along with these detailed transcriptions which use an assortment of extended techniques to produce polyphonic textures on the six-string bass, the book contains detailed performance notes for each piece with valuable insights into technique, a biography, and information about Josh’s gear and setup. This songbook includes transcriptions of: Van Jam in Plastic LAnd * Far From Home Blues * Apple Pie Stew * Bizzy 2B Free * Old Town Funk * Bluesy Song * Rise Up * Tune’s Day * Barba4unk * Freedom * It’s a Sin * Bird House * Frostbite.

Josh Cohen - Freedom Solo Bass Transcriptions

Arts & Photography

Music

Joshua Dov Cohen

Product Description 
A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature—from how Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.\n“So beautiful ... a fantastic book.” —Zadie Smith, best-selling author of White Teeth\nIn supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual professions, Josh Cohen explores a new way for us to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Harper Lee’s Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education as depicted in 
Jane Eyre and as seen through the eyes of Sandy Stranger in 
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwin’s 
Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s 
Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goethe’s Young Werther and Sally Rooney’s Frances have—and don’t have—in common as they experience first love; how 
Middlemarch’s Dorothea Brooke deals with the vicissitudes of marriage. Vis-a-vis old age and death, Cohen considers what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s 
Gilead and from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 
The Leopard.\nFeaturing: 
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Alice—Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass 
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Scout Finch—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 
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Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 
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John Grimes—James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain 
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Ruth—Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 
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Vladimir Petrovitch—Ivan Turgenev, First Love 
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Frances—Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends 
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Jay Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 
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Esther Greenwood—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 
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Clarissa Dalloway—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 
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And more! 
 Review 
“So beautiful. I really enjoyed it. A fantastic book.”\n—Zadie Smith\n“Successful fiction, like successful therapy, Cohen notes, ‘sets a mirror before us, in which we see not only the self we know but the self we don’t.’ Relatability gives way to a more transformative recognition: seeing ourselves as others see us, or seeing ourselves as others, as strangers-and therefore as people whose stories and scripts aren’t as fixed as we thought . . . By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions.”\n—The Times Literary Supplement 
“Cohen makes the case for fiction as a crucial aid to introspection, suggesting that our ability to see ourselves in literary characters runs parallel to the all-important ability to see ourselves.”\n—LitHub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Part 2” 
 “Absorbing . . . Uniformly insightful. . . Compelling . . . An engrossing consideration of how reading fiction can lay a pathway for emotional and intellectual enrichment.”\n—Kirkus Reviews “Original . . . Fascinating . . . The premise is a brilliant one with plenty of room for fun.”\n—Publishers Weekly 
 About the Author 
JOSH COHEN is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a professor of modern literary theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of many books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis, including 
How to Read: Freud, The Private Life: Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion, and 
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop. He lives in London. 
 Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 
from\nChildhood Part 1: Play\n“Let’s pretend”: Alice\n#\nThere’s nothing all that exceptional about Alice. Unlike a lot of Victorian child heroines, she’s no paragon of angelic wisdom and delicacy. She is stubborn, awkward, impatient, often daft; she is, in short, a kid. But then why is she the first stop on our literary life

How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Pantheon

With social networking and reality television, self-help columns and daytime talk shows, there’s an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non-stop communication, one’s privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion, and attack from the media, the government, friends, family, and complete strangers. So what are we trying to hide? And what are we trying to find out about others? Practicing psychoanalyst and professor of literature Josh Cohen tackles those questions in his study of privacy and personality, the most vulnerable and indestructible region of your self.” Using Sigmund Freud’s theories on identity and the ego as a foundation, Cohen weaves through time and place to study an extensive variety of people who unearthed and revealed the rawest form of their selves. From Adam and Eve to the ballerinas in the hit 2010 film Black Swan, from Hester Prynne to British celebrity Katie Price, Cohen finds Freud’s ideas in both fiction and reality alike. Yet even with all the times that we’ve exposed the inner workings of our psyches, Cohen is sure to emphasize that some part of every individual will always remain hidden. Like Freud once wrote, The ego is not master in its own house.” In a culture that floods our lives with light, how is it that we remain so helplessly in the dark?

The Private Life: Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Counterpoint

A psychoanalyst's ground-breaking exploration of the taboo emotion of anger, and its impact on our personal and political lives, from the acclaimed author of Not Working.

All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World

Mental Health

Granta Books

Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry…After years of travelling and losing almost everything – his country, his children, his wife, his farm – an Afghan man finds unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger’s home...A student protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome.

Refugee Tales II: Volume II (2)

Holmes, Rachel

SHAMSIE, Kamila

KAY, JACKIE

MacDonald, Helen

WARNER, Marina

Mukherjee, Neel

Laing, Olivia

Duhig, Ian

Genre Fiction

Comma Press

Losers

Peninsula Press

Comfort Food for an Uncomfortable Stomach: By A Kid For Kids

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Special Diet

Independently published

Tapping Grooves: Vol.1: Electric Bass Play-along with Transcriptions

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