Other: 359 books
The Art Prophets
The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers...
Blitz
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman.
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Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning...
by Peter Fonagy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A Bestseller
Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.
"The book...
Brain and the Inner World
An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
About this Book...
The Brain and the Inner World is an eagerly-awaited account of a momentous revolution. Subjective mental states like consciousness, emotion, and dreaming were once confined to the realm of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the human sciences. These topics now assume center...
by Patricia Gherovici
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These...
A Million Drops
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
An intense literary thriller that tears through the interlocked histories of fascism and communism in Europe without pausing for breath.
Gonzalo Gil is a lawyer stuck in a disaffected life, with a failed career, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. When, after no news...
by Oleg Pavlov
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again. Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled ...' Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year's...
The Elimination
A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.
Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months...
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life.
She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris,...
Gene Worship
Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither...
by Hervé Le Tellier
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A middle-aged man (our hero) is traveling to the heart of the Scottish Highlands to be with his young mistress (our heroine), who is twenty years his junior. Some people would call this madness, a mistake, as his visit is not entirely welcome—her boyfriend will arrive in a few days’ time. But...
by Christoph Simon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Lukas Zbinden leans on the arm of Kâzim, as they walk slowly down the stairway towards the door of his old people's home. Step by step, the irrepressible Lukas recounts the life he shared with his wife Emilie and his son. She loved to walk in the countryside; he loved towns and meeting strangers....
by Clemens Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together... Stories about people who have lost out...
The River City Chronicles
River City, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.
Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run...