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  • Life at the Bottom

    The Worldview that Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Now in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple."A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R's." -Thomas SowellAs a British psychiatrist who treated the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, Theodore Dalrymple had ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Nothing but Wickedness

    The Delusions of Our Culture

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Nothing But Wickedness delves into society's subtle—and some not so subtle—transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, including what drives ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Life At The Botom

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her trousers and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks, while a man crawled after her on the sidewalk, licking them. At midnight along this street – with the sound of rock music pounding insistently out of club doors presided over by steroid-inflated bouncers, among men vomiting ... Read more

    $5.95 USD

  • Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her “mawkishness and banality” and declared her work “literally impossible to read.” Even if this were so, that Agatha Christie’s books were mere trash of no intellectual substance whatever, the fact that they were (and are) of such worldwide appeal might be worth investigating. How is it that books whose action takes ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Knife Went In

    Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    More than half a century ago, George Orwell wrote an essay about the decline of the English murder. Since the 1990s, Theodore Dalrymple has witnessed its modern variety in real life. For over a quarter of a century he has treated and examined many more murderers than most as a prison doctor, psychiatrist, and court expert in some of Britain's most deprived areas. Here, he delves deep into his life ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ramses

    A Memoir

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Ramses was the best dog in the world, the cleverest, friendliest, most expressive, understanding, amusing dog that ever was, and it was only a happy coincidence that he happened to be ours. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Englishman's Home…

    … Is His Car Park - Indifference as a Way of Life

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    How did Britain become a nation seemingly resigned to its own indifference? In this sharp and entertaining critique, Theodore Dalrymple dissects the cultural decline through a series of observations of everyday slovenliness. From the paved-over front gardens that become car parks to the carelessness toward civic beauty, Dalrymple argues that a collective affection for what is held in common is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Our Culture, What's Left Of It

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    In this incisive and beautifully-written collection of essays retired doctor Theodore Dalrymple writes about subjects as diverse as the legalisation of drugs, the death of Princess Diana and Marxism.Each of the twenty six essys are a gem and Dalrymple writes with an insight and clarity that make them individually enlightening and enjoyable to read. They address a variety of subjects — from art and ... Read more

    $5.95 USD

  • False Positive

    A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the world. Doctors rely on the conclusions it publishes, and most do not have the time to look beyond abstracts to examine methodology or question assumptions. Many of its pronouncements are conveyed by the media to a mass audience, which is likely to take them as authoritative. But is this trust entirely ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The New Vichy Syndrome

    Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Not With A Bang But A Whimper

    The Politics and Culture of Decline

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    A beautifully-written and thought-provoking collection of essays on social, political and literary issues as diverse as violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective merits of Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson. Dalrymple uses examples from his long career as a prison doctor and his travels to every corner of the globe to illustrate his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Pleasure of Thinking

    A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

    by Theodore Dalrymple ...
    What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus