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  • A Doctor's Dictionary

    Writings on Culture and Medicine

    de Iain Bamforth ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of medicine's intersection with culture and the humanities.In this collection of essays, Iain Bamforth, a doctor and poet, delves into the complex relationship between medicine, culture, and society. Drawing on his experiences around the world, Bamforth examines the ethical dilemmas, historical context, and cultural impact of medical practice. From the mysterious ... Leer más

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  • The Crossing Fee

    de Iain Bamforth ...
    Reimagining myth, history, and literature, this compilation draws upon the poet's remarkable travels and experiences as a doctor while working in some of the most remote parts of the world. As it brings Rimbaud, Dante, and 17th-century picaresque into play, this compilation explores the ultimate journey of crossing into another world or another life. ... Leer más

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  • The Good European

    Essays and Arguments

    de Iain Bamforth ...
    Thrown into a deep identity crisis by Bismarck's victories against the French in 1870, Alsace's divided loyalties have affected the nature of Europe itself. In this authoritative new discussion, Iain Bamforth reports from 15 years of travel, taking him from Berlin, when the wall fell in 1989, to Strasburg—the heart of aboriginal Europe. With his ear attuned to the complexities of culture and ... Leer más

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  • Zest

    Essays on the Art of Living

    de Iain Bamforth ...
    Following on the explorations of culture and politics in his previous collection The Good European, the writings in Zest delve into less obvious but important aspects of social life—into manual work and 'dolce far niente,' into ancient vernacular craft traditions, and the data stockpiles of modernity. Early in the book we visit the Garden of Eden with Hieronymus Bosch, where we share with him the ... Leer más

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  • Diary of a Man in Despair

    Traducido por Paul Rubens ...
    Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the ... Leer más

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  • At the Mind's Limits

    Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

    This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience "is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience" ( Newsweek)."Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world."At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and ... Leer más

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  • Albert Camus

    Elements of a Life

    Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a renewed appreciation of his art. To be sure, my idea ... Leer más

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

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    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Leer más

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  • Journey to the Abyss

    The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

    de Harry Kessler ...
    These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin ... Leer más

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  • The Roots of Romanticism

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  • Not I

    Memoirs of a German Childhood

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around ... Leer más

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