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Author : Henry Wessells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976466093
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Books written by Henry Wessells and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Smiley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571258778
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Private Life written by Jane Smiley and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer-a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck." Yet Andrew confounds Margaret's expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she'd so carefully constructed.
Author : Josep Maria de Sagarra
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 091467126X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Private Life written by Josep Maria de Sagarra and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
Author : Ran Chen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231131968
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book A Private Life written by Ran Chen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against a backdrop of the decades that included the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square Incident, A Private Life portrays the effect of that social change and political turbulence on the protagonists inner life as she moves from childhood to early maturity.
Author : Josh Cohen
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026376
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Private Life written by Josh Cohen and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With social networking and reality television, self–help columns and daytime talk shows, there's an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non–stop communication, one's privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion, and attack from the media, the government, friends, family, and complete strangers. So what are we trying to hide? And what are we trying to find out about others? Practicing psychoanalyst and professor of literature Josh Cohen tackles those questions in his study of privacy and personality, the "most vulnerable and indestructible region of your self." Using Sigmund Freud's theories on identity and the ego as a foundation, Cohen weaves through time and place to study an extensive variety of people who unearthed and revealed the rawest form of their selves. From Adam and Eve to the ballerinas in the hit 2010 film Black Swan, from Hester Prynne to British celebrity Katie Price, Cohen finds Freud's ideas in both fiction and reality alike. Yet even with all the times that we've exposed the inner workings of our psyches, Cohen is sure to emphasize that some part of every individual will always remain hidden. Like Freud once wrote, "The ego is not master in its own house." In a culture that floods our lives with light, how is it that we remain so helplessly in the dark?
Author : Ratika Kapur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408873664
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Mrs Sharma written by Ratika Kapur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
Author : P.-J. Stahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Public and Private Life of Animals written by P.-J. Stahl and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippe Ariès
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674400047
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Private Life written by Philippe Ariès and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has Vol. 1-5.
Author : Margaret & Hughes Jackson (Gordon)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780455233260
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Private Life in a Digital World written by Margaret & Hughes Jackson (Gordon) and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alejandro Zambra
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824240
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Private Lives of Trees written by Alejandro Zambra and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
Author : Ronald Mathias Lockley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552092128
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of the Rabbit written by Ronald Mathias Lockley and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Greenfield
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937874
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of the Brain written by Susan Greenfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says internationally acclaimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, is the building block of consciousness. As our minds develop we create a personalized inner world based on our experiences. But during periods of intense emotion, such as anger, fear or euphoria, we can literally lose our mind, returning to the mental state we experienced as infants. Challenging many preconceived notions, Susan Greenfield's groundbreaking book seeks to answer one of science's most enduring mysteries: how our unique sense of self is created.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Private Life: Passions of the Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has Vol. 1-5.
Author : Michael Kirby
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174343006X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book A Private Life written by Michael Kirby and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a reflective, generous and eloquent book.' - Sydney Morning Herald ' [A] gracious memoir.' - Weekend Australian 'Michael Kirby writes with great humour and extraordinary warmth.' - Canberra Times '[A] charming and oddly moving collection of autobiographical excursions.' - Saturday Age Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a time of spin and obfuscation, he speaks out passionately and straightforwardly on the issues that are important to him. Even those who disagree with him have been moved by the courage required of him to come out as a high-profile gay man, which at times has caused him to be subjected to the most outrageous assaults on his character. This is a collection of reminiscences in which we can discover the private Michael Kirby. It allows the public figure to speak in his own voice, without any intermediary. He opens up as never before about his early life, about being gay, about his forty-three-year relationship with Johan van Vloten, about his religious beliefs and even about his youthful infatuation with James Dean. Beautifully written, reflective and generous, in that warm and gently self-deprecating voice that is so characteristic of him, this is a memoir that Michael Kirby's many admirers have been waiting for.
Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539541
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Private Life written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical questions of modernity. Issues central to modern European social theory grew into significant themes within Indian literary reflection, such as the influence of modernity on the nature of the self, the nature of historicity, the problem of evil, the character of power under the conditions of modern history, and the experience of power as felt by an individual subject of the modern state. How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian literary tradition and that writers, such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sibnath Sastri, performed immeasurably important work helping readers to think through the predicament of modern times.
Author : John Nathan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618126941
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Sony written by John Nathan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Nathan uncovers the secrets of Sony's success in this thorough and entertaining history of the company that rose out of the ashes of World War II and came to embody Japan's postwar resurrection.
Author : Vincent Starrett
Publisher : Gasogene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780938501473
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes written by Vincent Starrett and published by Gasogene Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This enhanced 75th Anniversary Edition adds scholarly commentary and appreciation to a complete facsimile of the rare, 1933 original edition."--Jacket copy.
