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Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond
Category: Culture | Series: Short Circuits
What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim ...Show more
Lady with the Dog and Other Love Stories by ANTON CHEKHOV
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories Ser.
A master playwright and short story writer, Anton Chekhov is revered for his ability to examine the social forces in his characters' lives. His virtuosity with the written word is on full display in this collection of his best stories that explore the euphoria and despair inherent in the process of fall ...Show more
Light Skin Gone to Waste - Stories by Toni Ann Johnson
Category: Fiction | Series: Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
In 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They're Black, something the man about to show him the house doesn't know. With that, we're introduced to the Arringtons: Phi ...Show more
Lincoln: a Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen ...Show more
Literary Theory : a Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study ...Show more
Little Women: Short Classics by Fiona Patchett
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Short Classics Ser.
Louisa May Alcott's classic tale wonderfully adapted for younger readers. Join the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy on their inspirational journey, as they struggle through the American Civil War and learn the importance of love, family and following their dreams.
Logic : A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with ...Show more
Logic: A very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
Category: Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions
An introduction to modern formal logic, this book explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how it deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time, to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Each chapter takes some philosophical problem, and explains h ...Show more
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald De Sousa
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why shoul ...Show more
MACHIAVELLI A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by SKINNER QUENTIN
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavelli'sadult life, ...Show more
Macbeth by Globe Education; William Shakespeare; Hodder Education Staff (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare Ser.
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: KS3 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2018 Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's Macbeth; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot, themes and Shakespeare's language, which is suppor ...Show more
Macbeth (Short, Sharp Shakespeare Stories) by Anna Claybourne
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Short, Sharp Shakespeare Stories
A power-hungry general, his crazed wife, three interfering witches and some terrifying ghosts...Discover the gripping story of Macbeth; one of the world's most famous tragedies. The age-appropriate text in Short, Sharp Shakespeare: Macbeth introduces readers to the play by re-telling the story in modern ...Show more