An Empire Loses Hope; the Return of Stalin's Ghost

Shub, Anatole

Jonathan Cape, London

"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."—Betty Abel, Contemporary Review"Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."—Library Journal"The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

The Naked Man (Introduction to a Science of Mythology)

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude

Devolution: The end of Britain?

Politics & Social Sciences

Dalyell, Tam

Politics & Government

Some tame gazelle

Barbara Pym

Erich Fromm, renowned psychoanalyst, presents in this book a highly stimulating and accessible critique of Sigmund Freud's contributions to modern thought. As the title suggests, Fromm's is a wholeheartedly balanced view, inspired by great admiration for Freud's achievements but with a clear understanding of the preconceptions which blinkered his vision - notably those stemming from the bourgeois materialism of his society, his certainty of the inferiority of women and his inability to conceive of psychical phenomena for which physiological roots could not be demonstrated. The book is a fitting conclusion to a brilliant and valuable career. It punctuates the eloquent, loving, far-reaching message Erich Fromm brought to our generation.

Greatness And Limitations Of Freud's Thought

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Self-Help

Anastasia The Life of Anne Anderson

Anastasia: The Life of Anna Anderson

Kurth, Peter

Includes "Journal", "My Father", "To Feel These Things", "Literary Talk", "The Abandoned House", and "Sylvia"

Shuffle

Literature & Fiction

LEONARD MICHAELS

Contemporary

, pages unnumbered, 213 black and white illustrations, complete

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

Arts & Photography

FRIEDLANDER, Lee

Photography & Video

This very special picture book about the important themes of poverty, child slavery, pollution, racism and war, was created by Quentin Blake and 1,800 children from all over Europe.\nOne day, Isobel and Nicholas discover a strange-looking boat wreck on the beach. They clamber in, and begin their great adventure. Together with Simona, a wounded stork, they soar through the sky in their sailing boat and see a world that has lost its way -- a girl being bullied, a weak child forced to work, a boy who can barely breathe in a polluted city, a mother and her baby trapped in a war zone. At each place, the children stop to help, and soon the boat is full of their new friends. Soon they must find a place to land where they can build a bigger and better sailing boat, and continue on their humanitarian mission.

A Sailing Boat in the Sky

Children's Books

Quentin, Blake

In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. In Ulster, the name 'Lundy' is synonymous with 'traitor'. Robert Lundy was the Protestant governor of Londonderry in 1688, just before it came under siege by the Catholic Irish army of James II. Robert Lundy ordered the city's capitulation. Crying 'No Surrender', hardline Protestants prevented it and drove him away in disgrace. William Steel Dickson's legacy is a little different. A Presbyterian minister born in the mid-eighteenth century, he preached with famous eloquence in favour of using whatever means necessary to resist the tyranny of the English. Finally, there is 'Billy' Lundy, born in 1890, the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants had become by the beginning of World War I - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the concept of a united Ireland. The lives of Robert Lundy, William Steel Dickson and Billy Lundy encapsulate many themes in the Ulster past. In telling their stories, Derek Lundy lays bare the harsh and murderous mythologies of Northern Ireland and gives us a revision of its history that seems particularly relevant in today's world.

Men That God Made Mad

History

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Europe

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