Passion of Youth (Picador Books)

REICH, WILHELM

Biographies & Memoirs

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Kaddish

Politics & Social Sciences

Leon Wieseltier

Sociology

Grace

Literature & Fiction

Linn Ullmann

Contemporary

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An Approach to Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Macmillan. 1979.

Bolton, Derek

Philosophy

`Though Man lacks the historical depth of other more stable species, it is also the case that our rate of development has been rapid: our brains have tripled in size within record 3 million years. However it is the acquisition of a collection of social and cultural traits that are used as a unique means of adaptation - as the basis for a new way of life - that is the most extraordinary aspect of our evolution' - Introduction . Subtitled `The origins of human nature', Megarry argues that while social behavior is biologically grounded, it is not biologically determined, and that culture is a significant formative agent in the evolutionary emergence of modern humans. `Megarry's lucid and authoritative book... offers an excellent account of the revolution in our understanding of human origins in recent decades' - Paul Hirst, Birkbeck College, London .

Society in Prehistory

History

Megarry, Tim

Ancient Civilizations

This book presents the results from recent research into women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, its 14 papers deriving from the first three years of an ongoing seminar series held at Oxford University. Contributors include: L Nixon (Gender bias in archaeology) ; A Depla (Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature) ; R Hawley (The problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece) ; H King (Hippocratic gynaecology) ; M Wyke (The rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world) ; A Cameron (Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire) ; J Herrin (Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women) ; F Gameson (Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry) ; J Leslie (An orthodox view of Hindu women) .

Women in Ancient Societies

Archer, Leonie J.

This large and ambitious work explores the multinational identity of the `British' and argues that Britain's history can never be cut off from that of the rest of Europe. The book does not claim to be anything other than a personal view of history but Davies challenges traditional complacency about our origins in a masterly and thoroughly compelling fashion. Davies begins with a discussion of the identity of the man who was buried in a high cave in present-day Cheddar Gorge about 10,000 years ago, before Britain became an island. The book then spans the history and populations of the Isles through prehistory, multiple invasions and imperialism to the multi-racial Britain of today. Includes many extracts from contemporary texts and verse and 78 appendices.

The Isles: A History

Davies, Norman

Archaeology

A good introduction to social anthropology (aimed at students) which explains what this field of study is and how it is carried out. The book draws on the author's personal experiences in conveying the excitement and diversity of different cultures, languages and different perceptions of the worlds in which people live in. Using a range of examples, Joy Hendry discusses the major topics of investigation: ritual; gift exchange and reciprocity; symbolism; beauty and bounty, treasure and trophies; religion, magic and mythology; law, order and social control; family, kinship and marriage; economics and the environment.

Other People's Worlds: an introduction to social anthropology

Hendry, Joy

Social Sciences

Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1737

Josephine Donovan

Classics

The Future of the Past

A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past-and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.

STILLE, ALEXANDER

Americas

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