Author: Katharine MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Maiden Aunt in Fact and Fiction
Author: Katharine MooreFact and Fiction
Author: Bertrand RussellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040277462
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for discussion. The second part is devoted to essays on politics and education. The third section is one of divertissements and parables, which also includes some rare descriptions of Russell's dreams. Finally there are 11 essays and speeches concerned with peace and war, which include some of Russell's most famous pronouncements on nuclear warfare and international tension. Fact and Fiction provides an insight into one of this century's greatest philosophers' range of interests and depth of convictions.
A Leg to Stand On
Author: Oliver SacksPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593311019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Dr. Oliver Sacks’s books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels like part of his body. Sacks’s brilliant description of his crisis and eventual recovery is not only an illuminating examination of the experience of patienthood and the inner nature of illness and health but also a fascinating exploration of the physical basis of identity. This 1984 classic is now available in an expanded edition with a new foreword, written by Kate Edgar, executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.
Thicker Than Water
Author: Leonore DavidoffPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199546487
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.
Women & Aging
Author: Helen Rippier WheelerPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555876616
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Guide with more than two thousand bibliographic entries and cross-references. It includes journal articles, book chapters, essays, and doctoral dissertations, as well as complete books.
Celibacies
Author: Benjamin KahanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
Victorian Sexual Dissidence
Author: Richard DellamoraPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226142265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
One essay, for example, traces the remarkable feminist appropriation of male-identified fields of study, such as Classical philology. Others address the validation of male bodies as objects of desire in writing, painting, and emergent modernist choreography. The writings shed light on the diverse interests served by a range of cultural practitioners and on the complex ways in which the late Victorians invented themselves as modern subjects."--Pub. desc.
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Author: Truth
Author: The New Zealand Family from 1840
Author: D. Ian PoolPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775581993
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
An authoritative demographic history of the New Zealand family from 1840&–2005, this reference is a collection of statistics that interprets the changing role of the family and its members. Using detailed research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the 19th century to the baby boom, the increase in family diversity, and the modern trend towards unsustainably small families. This analysis of society helps trace changing attitudes and the structure of society by noting the reasons for and consequences of the demographic changes.