The Divided Self: An Existential Study In Sanity And Madness

R.D.

LAING

Penguin

Politics, Political Science & Theory, Sociology, Social Sciences

Politics of Experience

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Ballantine Books

Celtic Art and Society in Britain

History

Europe

Gill Macmillan Ltd

Human Rights in the Age of Eugenics

Moral PhilosophyBioethicsMedical EthicsHealth ManagementPhilosophy of LawPolitical Science

Constitutional Law

Edinburgh University Press

Particles And Fields In Radio Galaxies (hb)

This is the first full-length critical study of author, critic, and translator Hannah Lynch. It explores her writing and her life, in doing so shedding new light on women’s cultural and political networks in Ireland and beyond. Never one to shy away from adventure or confrontation, Lynch travelled widely in body and in mind in the course of her relatively short life. She was born in Dublin in 1859 to a family whose nationalist affiliations shaped her early activism. She worked as London Secretary to the Ladies’ Land League in the early 1880s, and helped to publish and to circulate United Ireland when it was proscribed. A self-declared ‘vagabond’ and restless wanderer, she encountered diverse cultural communities in Dublin, London and continental Europe before finally settling in Paris, where she died in 1904. A ‘New Woman’ who frequently questioned that very category, she produced prose texts on the key issues of her time: feminism, imperialism, the state of modern literature, and Irish national identity. Whether she was promoting the Ladies’ Land League, mocking W. B. Yeats or passionately defending Alfred Dreyfus, her provocative persona placed her at the sharp edge of contemporary debates about the proper role of the woman writer. Likewise, her fiction is populated with powerful female characters―many of them Irish―struggling to forge their own paths to independence, self-expression, and personal fulfilment.

Hannah Lynch 1859-1904: Irish writer, cosmopolitan, New Woman

Literature & Fiction

Binckes

British & Irish

Cork University Press

The late Seventies to the early Nineties was a completely unique period in the history of computing. Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a disparate variety of home computers, from an unlikely array of suppliers, were engaging in a battle that would shape the industry for years to come. Products from established electronics giants clashed with machines which often appeared to have been (or actually were) assembled in a backyard shed by an eccentric inventor. University professors were competing head to head with students in their parents' garages. Compatibility? Forget it! Each of these computers was its own machine and had no intention of talking to anything else. The same could be said of their owners, in fact, who passionately defended their machines with a belief that verged on the religious. This book tells the story behind 40 classic home computers of an infamous decade, from the dreams and inspiration, through passionate inventors and corporate power struggles, to their final inevitable demise. It takes a detailed look at every important computer from the start of the home computer revolution with the MITS Altair, to the NeXT cube, pehaps the last serious challenger in the personal computer marketplace. In the thirteen years between the launch of those systems, there has never been a more frenetic period of technical advance, refinement, and marketing, and this book covers all the important steps made on both sides of the Atlantic. Whether it's the miniaturization of the Sinclair machines, the gaming prowess of the Amiga, or the fermenting war between Apple Computer, "Big Blue," and "the cloners," we've got it covered. Digital Retro is an essential read for anyone who owned a home computer in the Eighties.

Digital Retro - The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer

Business & Money

ILEX

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