Edinburgh & Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world from Madrid & Barcelona to Moscow & St. Petersburg to Beijing & Shanghai Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller & closer together--like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their size belies their world-historical importance as cultural & commercial capitals of the British Empire & the mere forty miles between their city centers does not diminish their stubbornly individual nature. Robert Crawford dares to bring both cities to life between the covers of one book. His story of the fluctuating fortunes of each city is animated by the one-upping that has been entrenched since the eighteenth century when Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty & took on its proud wistfulness while Glasgow came into its industrial promise & defiance. Using landmarks & individuals as gateways to their character & past this tale of two cities mixes novelty & familiarity just as Scotland's capital & its largest city do. Crawford gives us Adam Smith & Walter Scott the Scottish Enlightenment & the School of Art but also tiny apartments a poetry library Spanish Civil War volunteers & the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short. We see Glasgow's best-known street through the eyes of a Victorian child & Edinburgh University as it appeared to Charles Darwin. Crawford's literary detailed account affirms what people from Glasgow or Edinburgh have long doubted--that it is possible to love both cities at the same time. ...

In 1867 Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the ' Gold Mountain' the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire & married a Caucasian woman in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races. Through sheer endeavour & entrepreneurial genius he became one of the most successful Chinese men in the country. Over the decades each generation of the See family strived to grasp their dreams realise their ambitions & overcome their disappointments & sorrows. This sweeping chronicle of five generations of a Chinese-American family encompasses stories of adventure & heartache racism & romance secret marriages & sibling rivalries. On Gold Mountain is a powerful social history of two cultures meeting in a new world. ...

In her first seminal book ON DEATH & DYING Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages of dying: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression & Acceptance. In the years that followed it became evident that these stages applied not only to the process of accepting death but also to accepting other difficult & catastrophic life experiences. With ON GRIEF & GRIEVING Kubler-Ross & LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic & accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights & advice designed to help readers normalise their lives & find the courage to continue. Featuring sections on sadness hauntings dreams coping isolation children healing & even sex ON GRIEF & GRIEVING fuses practical wisdom with spiritual insight as it forges a path to wholeness. ...

On Heaven & Earth is an open & expansive dialogue between Jorge Mario Bergoglio & Abraham Skorka a Rabbi & biophysicist in which they share their thoughts on religion reason & the challenges the world faces in the 21st Century. For years Cardinal Bergoglio (then Archbishop of Buenos Aires) & Rabbi Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith & reason. They both sought to build bridges between Catholicism Judaism & the world at large. On Heaven & Earth brings together a series of these dialogues where both men talk about various theological & world issues including God fundamentalism atheism abortion homosexuality euthanasia same sex marriage & globalization. From these personal & accessible dialogues comes a first-hand view of the man who is now Pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world. ...

On 8 C Ds: In his Alpine base Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger James Bond is about to get married to Teresa di Vicenzo the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerl&. Bonds marriage & Blofelds schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire & high explosive from which neither man emerges the victor. ...

January 1829: George IV is on the throne Wellington is Englands prime-minister & snow is falling thickly on the London streets as Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is summoned to the Horse Guards in the expectation of command of his regiment the 6th Light Dragoons. But the benefits of long-term peace at home mean cuts in the army & Hervey is told that the Sixth are to be reduced to a single squadron. With his long-term plans in disarray he undertakes instead a six-month assignment as an observer with the Russian army. Soon Hervey his friend Edward Fairbrother & his faithful groom Private Johnson are sailing north to St Petersburg & from there to the Eastern Balkans & the ferocious war between Russia & the Ottoman Empire. Hervey is meant to be an impartial spectator in the campaign but soon the circumstances
- & his own nature
- propel him into a more active role. In the climactic Battle of Kulewtscha in which more troops were engaged than in any battle since Waterloo Hervey & Fairbrother find themselves in the thick of the action. For Matthew Hervey the stakes have never been higher
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On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores afresh the dynamics of the helping relationship
- learning to recognize how patients offer cues to the therapeutic experience that they are unconsciously in search of. Using many telling clinical examples he illustrates how through trial identification he has learned to monitor the implications of his own contributions to a session from the viewpoint of the patient. He thus shows how with the aid of this internal supervision many initial failures to respond appropriately can be remedied & even used to the benefit of the therapeutic work. By learning to distinguish better what helps the therapeutic process from what hinders it ways are discovered whereby the circularity of pre-conception can more effectively be avoided by those who aim to understand the unconscious of others. From this lively examination of key clinical issues the author comes to see psychoanalytic therapy as a process of re-discovering theory
- & developing a technique that is more specifically related to the individual patient. The dynamics illustrated here particularly the processes of interactive communication & containment occur in any helping relationship & are applicable throughout the caring professions. Patrick Casements unusually frank presentation of his own work aided by his lucid & non-technical language allows wide scope for readers to form their own ideas about the approach to technique he describes. This book together with its sequel Further Learning from the Patient will be invaluable to trainee & practising analysts or therapists & those teaching in related professions.

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Collected here in a single volume for the first time On Liberty Utilitarianism Considerations on Representative Government & The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today
- issues of the nature of ethics the scope & limits of individual liberty the merits of & costs of democratic government & the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mills doctrine of the Art of Life as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent revisionist scholarship he shows Mills work to be far richer & subtler than traditional interpretations allow. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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.
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Miniature books eighteenth-century novels Tom Thumb weddings tall tales & objects of tourism & nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing " a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press) & now available in paperback for the first time this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics & from psychoanalytic feminist & marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience the body to scale & narratives to objects Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority & at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" & the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time & space." ...

When Malachi was diagnosed with diabetes in 2009 just a few months before his sixtieth birthday he knew he had to take hold of his life & make some changes; dusting down the oily old bicycle in his backyard was the first of these. This memoir tells the personal story of how the author challenged himself to cycle around Ireland during the summer of 2011 following many of the same routes that he took as a keen cyclist thirty years earlier. The book uses the journeys made by Malachi on his bicycle to discuss the authors reflections on growing older & the challenges ageing presents in terms of being able to do what you used to do. & of not losing sight of the pleasure riding a bicycle can give. The book moves between past & present
- as the author looks back to a younger self & his first journeys & compares it to an older self & the second journeys
- & to his father who was a champion cyclist. This book is accessible & will appeal to a popular audience. The tone is direct frank funny & reflective.

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