This book surveys the convoluted history of the term "postmodernism" and the widely various concepts that have been attached to that term. Beginning with a discussion of modernist intellectual life in the 1930s, the history moves on through discussions of Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Habermas before reaching its central subject, the literary and ...
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of ...
Eminent historian and new left thinker takes on leading conservative, liberal and socialist thinkers in one iconoclastic volume. "Spectrum" offers a critical survey of the ideas of rival intellectual groupings from the far right, the liberal center and the Marxist left, rarely considered in the same optic. The book opens with a comparative ...
A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties: 'Origins of the Present Crisis', which suggested a general schema for the analysis of class and power in modern Britain and their relation to its decline; and ...
The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses ...
Designed for quick reference, this handbook provides easily accessible information on the specific drugs and treatment regimens used in cancer chemotherapy. This updated Second Edition includes new drugs and combinations of drugs and reflects the increasing use of chemotherapy in combination with radiation and surgery. The first section presents ...
Joe finds the pleasures of his newly tidied room too much to bear. He can't decide what to play with--his trains? his planes?--so he drags all of his toys back out into the room, and when his mother discovers his brand new mess, Joe has to try and make things right. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Joe the frog is not interested in taking a bath, nonetheless his father insists that it's bath time. Trying to delay the inevitable, Joe keeps sending his father to gather more and more tub toys. Soon his father is so loaded down with toys that he can't see where he's walking and he falls into a mud puddle. Who needs a bath now? Color ...
Jean-Paul Sartre was undoubtedly one of the greatest and most popular philosophers of the 20th Century. Also a prominent novelist, playwright and biographer, Sartre was, above all, the embodiment of the engaged intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an individual who attempted to live his life in accordance with the ...
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society. Its opening section looks at the theories of four major minds of the twentieth-century Right, whose influence has been long-lasting in the Atlantic world: Michael Oakeshott, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and ...
This authoritative survey provides the first comprehensive map of the trials and tribuations of the West European left over the last decade. Organized as a series of tightly linked, comparative assessments, it provides a guide to the state of the left in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. While all the essays are ...
At his family reunion, Joe the frog looks for someone to play with, but all he hears is RnoS--until a special guest arrives. Bright, appealing illustrations feature Joe's mishaps with all kinds of things that go: tricycles, skateboards, roller skates, and more. Full color.
Listen up, Old MacDonald! Following the charming appeal of Chuck's Truck, this tale sees Chuck and his barnyard friends forming a band, and boy howdy, these critters can really play! Join the ruckus with Peggy Perry Anderson's toe-tapping, knee-slapping rhymes and bright illustrations introducing all of the musicians and their different ...
What happens to a racehorse who hurts his leg? Taken to a new place, the horse is soon carrying some very special riders. In this simple and sensitive story, Anderson reveals the interconnection between everyone involved in hippotherapy and the benefits they all share from the experience. Full color.
Not even his babysitter's most strenuous efforts can convince Joe the frog to go to bed. "Youngsters should be amused by both the obstinacy and the comic antics; a wide range of emotions are skillfully pictured in the cartoon-like red-and-green tinted drawings." -- Kirkus Reviews
Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural. This anthology brings together some of the most memorable pieces from recent years, includes Alan Bennett's Diary, Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton's presidency, Terry ...
After a visit to the barbershop, two mischievous brothers decide their dog Wendle also needs a haircut, but Wendle doesn't quite agree with their plans. Will Wendle escape or will the boys succeed in shaving the shaggy dog? Color illustrations accompany the text.
The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the ...
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