In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyes—the eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the old yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.

The Art of Biblical Narrative

Alter, Robert

Religion & Spirituality

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The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treatedthe first book to share the dual reflections of psychiatrist and patient.Ginny Elkin was a troubled young and talented writer whom the psychiatric world had labeled as ”schizoid.” After trying a variety of therapies, she entered into private treatment with Dr. Irvin Yalom at Stanford University. As part of their work together, they agreed to write separate journals of each of their sessions. Every Day Gets a Little Closer is the product of that arrangement, in which they alternately relate their descriptions and feelings about their therapeutic relationship.

Every Day Gets A Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

YALOM, IRVIN D.

Elkin, Ginny

Psychology & Counseling

Shorter, Edward, History Of Women's Bodies, A

A History of Women's Bodies

Medical Books

Edward, Shorter

Administration & Medicine Economics

The fullest and most accurate account of a major, generally unknown, segment of World War II... the a covert mission involving the nation's chief intelligence organization...

Operation Sunrise

History

Bradley F. Smith

Elena Agarossi

Americas

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert Fishman

Social Sciences

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