In On Love we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love & desire Alternating between the tough & the tender the romantic & the gritty Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here
- its selfishness & its narcissism its randomness its mystery & its misery & ultimately its true joyfulness endurance & redemptive power Whether writing about his daughter his lover or his work Bukowski is fiercely honest & reflective using love as a prism to look at the world & to view his own vulnerable place in it
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Hailed as a feast (Washington Post) & a modern-day bestiary (The New Yorker) Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural & conceptual history of monsters-how they have evolved over time what functions they have served for us & what shapes they are likely to take in the future Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great the monsters come fast & furious-Behemoth & Leviathan Gog & Magog Satan & his demons Grendel & Frankenstein circus freaks & headless children right up to the serial killers & terrorists of today & the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow Monsters embody our deepest anxieties & vulnerabilities Asma argues but they also symbolize the mysterious & incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises scientific notebooks & novels Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears & fascinations In doing so he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated externalized & defeated Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty ambiguity & insecurity & in a world that is daily becoming less secure & more ambiguous he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters-and thereby avoid becoming one ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I Actors Doris Day Gordon Mac Rae Leon Ames Rosemary De Camp Jack Smith Directors William Jacobs Roy Del Ruth Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio Unknown Number of discs 1 ...

' For if once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; & from robbing he comes next to drinking & Sabbath-breaking & from that to incivility & procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays ' On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head celebrating & coolly dissecting the art of murder & its perfections Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage & brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary & aesthetic criticism the essays had a remarkable impact on crime terror & detective fiction as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence The volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism ' On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' & his finest tale of terror ' The Avenger' a disturbing exploration of violence vigilantism & religious persecution ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

' People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill & be killed
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Leslie Patricelli's beloved baby is back in this first potty board book When you've got to go you've got to go! But where? There comes a point in every toddler's life when the question must be raised
- should I go in my potty? With pitch-perfect humour & pacing Leslie Patricelli follows one baby's thoughts & hilarious actions as they learn to use the potty for the first time
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Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
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On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president The purpose of this book is to take seriously the once common thought that the Obama presidency had ushered in a post-historical age Three questions organize the argument of the book What's living & dead in the idea of post-racialism? Did Mr Obama's preference for problem-solving over ideological warfare mark him not just as a post-partisan figure but as a philosophical pragmatist? Did the US become post-imperial when the descendants of slaves & of British imperial subjects inhabited the White House? In addition to taking up these questions the book considers Mr Obama's own relationship to the post-historical idea & explores the ethical implications of certain ways of entertaining that idea ...

On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct & expediency in public life & the right & wrong ways of attaining political leadership The principles of honourable behaviour are based on the Stoic virtues of wisdom justice magnanimity & propriety; in Cicero's view the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honourable Cicero's famous treatise has played a seminal role in the formation of ethical values in western Christendom Adopted by the fourth-century Christian humanists it beame transmuted into the moral code of the high Middle Ages Thereafter in the Renaissance from the time of Petrarch & in the Age of Enlightenment that followed it was given central prominence in discussion of the government of states Today when corruption & conflict in political life are the focus of so much public attention On Obligations is still the foremost guide to good conduct ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Artist architect poet & philosopher Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435) Inspired by the order & beauty inherent in nature his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance dimension & proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition representation light & colour to create work that is graceful & pleasing to the eye; & stipulates the moral & artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter On Painting had an immediate & profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti Fra Angelico & Veneziano & on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci & remains a compelling theory of art ...