"The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human condition, and in these three stories set in three widely-separated places in times of crisis, Theodore Dalrymple explores the deeper levels of human nature. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Romancing Opiates and Admirable Evasions.

Embargo and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Dalrymple, Theodore

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Paris is the best city for seeing films from anywhere and everywhere in the world. You can travel around the globe in the cinemas of Paris. This is precisely what Theodore Dalrymple did. Here are his reflections - historical, cultural, philosophical - on the 33 films that he saw, often combined with his own reminiscences of the various countries he had visited himself. The universal and the particular are inextricably combined in this highly original and amusing book.

Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 would soon turn satire into reality. Are there considerations in life other, or more important, than health? The protagonist of this biting satire knew the answer even before Covid-19 struck.Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris.

The Examined Life

Humor

Human life is filled with predicaments. In these eight stories, Theodore Dalrymple examines how people struggle with everyday conflicts and frustrations — or create them for others. The challenges of modern life are revealed to be both tragic and amusing in these enthralling stories touching on the nature of contemporary society, its character and characters.Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris.

Saving the Planet and Other Stories

"Concision is to the mind what cleanliness is to the body." We all have those sleepless moments late at night when our mind races from one thought to another. Theodore Dalrymple has recently used such moments to collect his thoughts in the form of maxims: those pithy statements of seemingly obvious but overlooked truths. There are 365 of them here, well more than a year's worth of contemplation. By stripping away unnecessary qualifications, Dalrymple's maxims force us to confront the universal and the timeless. Readers will be both provoked and enlightened by these Midnight Maxims: nocturnal thoughts, artfully expressed. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Saving the Planet and Other Stories.

Midnight Maxims

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

"Mr Rose was not the kind of man to accept defeat without retaliation. Rancour with him was no passing mood but a permanent state, to be nursed by memory and increased by reflection."The protagonists of Theodore Dalrymple's new collection of stories are driven to self-destruction or the destruction of others by a variety of motives, from hatred of a spouse to utopianism. The stories are both topical and timeless.Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Midnight Maxims.

The Wheelchair and Other Stories

Theodore Dalrymple finds deep satisfaction in books, and in this work he captures the thoughts occasioned by his recent reading. Inspired by a great and varied group of writers and touching on subjects of eternal interest, Dalrymple’s observations here are carefully considered and beautifully expressed. Witty and engaging, These Spindrift Pages is sure to inspire your own deep reflections.\nTheodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and The Wheelchair and Other Stories.

These Spindrift Pages

History & Criticism

As a celebrated neurologist, Doctor Andrew Lees has been collecting and interpreting medical data for decades, and as an accomplished author and frequent tweeter, he has developed a keen ability to capture his thoughts succinctly. Now, in this book, he documents a career's worth of insights by reformulating his most profound tweets into poetic form. The aphorisms collected here touch on a host of related topics, from the right approach to diagnosis to the importance of a "soulful neurology" in the art of healing. They will interest everyone: the suffering patient, the young doctor or nurse, maybe even a health care bureaucrat. Neurological Birdsong is the beautiful expression of one doctor's wisdom.A.J. Lees has written many books, including Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology and Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment. He takes long walks in London and continues his tweeting career @AJLees.

Neurological Birdsong

Lees, A.J.

Poetry

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