'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. Art &amp; Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?

Art and Lies

Literature & Fiction

WINTERSON, JEANETTE

World Literature

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Originally published by Random House in 1970, this insightful volume will be of crucial importance to the sociology and psychology student who wishes to know the realities of the everyday lives of deviants and who wishes to arrive at a valid sociological theory of deviance.

Observations of Deviance : Deviant Situations, Styles, and Ways of Life

Douglas, Jack D., editor

Logic: A first course

Politics & Social Sciences

Blumberg, Albert

Philosophy

From the Preface:"In this book my ambition has been to identify the major forces that shaped southern political history from the colonial era to the Civil War, and to trace their development over time. This goal led me to look at the political and intellectual heritage of those who settled in the colonial South and to consider the key political, social and economic institutions they established. More important than any of these several considerations was the manner in which they interacted to create a particular political world..."

Liberty and Slavery

COOPER, William J.

History

Topology of a Phantom City

Science & Math

ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN

Mathematics

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twentieth century.  There is a close unity of theme througout the book in its critical attempt to formulate new intellectual bases for future radical and egalitarian politics. It is written with that quiet wisdom and impressive command of sources which readers have come to associate with Professor Bottomore's work.

Sociology as social criticism

T.B. Bottomore

Sociology

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Arts & Photography

John, Berger

History & Criticism

A young and impressionable French maiden, witness to the finest--and lustiest manifestations of physical passion, now finds herself locked in a loveless marriage. Can there be a worse fate than this for a passionate woman? Surely there must be a way for her to satisfy the longings that now inflame her...

Blind Lust

ANONYMOUS

*Thoroughly edited. Does not contain the numerous typographical errors of other editions. "Forster's innovation remains: he allowed the English comic novel the possibility of a spiritual and bodily life, not simply to exist as an exquisitely worked game of social ethics but as a messy human concoction. He expanded the comic novel's ethical space (while unbalancing its moral certainties) simply by letting more of life in . Austen asks for toleration from her readers. Forster demands something far stickier, more shameful: love." - Zadie Smith Also available in a Classroom Edition with Questions for Discussion (ISBN 978-1517773649).

Room With a View

Forster, E.M.

Classics

Apologies to the Iroquois

This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of The Mohawks in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell.

WILSON, EDMUND

Social Sciences

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