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
- or more personal.


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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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First published in 1973 this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience & reality. Sontag develops further the concept of transparency. When anything can be photographed & photography has destroyed the boundaries & definitions of art a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid & invigorating essays the most famous being In Platos Cave " make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society." ...

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal & groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral & aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere & the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock idealize or seduce they create a sense of nostalgia & act as a memorial & they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality & authority in our lives. Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites". (The Times). "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world & at ourselves". (Washington Post). " The most original & illuminating study of the subject". (New Yorker). One of America's best-known & most admired writers Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels & numerous works of non-fiction among them Regarding the Pain of Others On Photography Illness as Metaphor At the Same Time Against Interpretation & Other Essays & Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn & Where the Stress Falls & the novels The Volcano Lover & The Benefactor are available from Penguin Modern Classics." ...

Peppa Pig on Pirate Island" is a fun interactive sound book based on the hugely popular Nick Jr. television character Peppa Pig with 18 fantastic sounds to amuse toddlers & pre-school children. Oink! Oink! Grunt! Grunt! This fabulous Peppa storybook has 18 fantastic sounds for noisy little piggies to press. Find out what happened when Peppa & her friends went to Pirate Island with Granny & Grandpa pig. Peppa Pig is the most popular pre-school licensed character in the UK; the " Peppa Pig My First Storybook" range is perfect for children just starting to read by themselves titles include: " Peppas Washing Day" " Peppa Goes to the Library" & " Daddy Pig s Fun Run". You can star in your own Peppa Pig book at website." ...

A magisterial one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present Ancient Athens to modern democracy
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Weaving together natural history & investigative reporting with mythological & cultural material On Rare Birds tells the compelling stories of ten rare or extinct bird species
- from the tragic demise of the once-abundant Passenger Pigeon to the shooting death of the last Carolina Parakeet in the wild & from the startling natural defences of the wilful Nightjar A to the diverse cultural significance of the Kingfisher. Some stories bear sad witness to precious species we have lost but they are all fascinating & often heartwarming or humorous depictions of the unique lives & loves of birds. On Rare Birds is a visually stunning volume illustrated by author Anita Albuss own superb artwork & by images ranging over five centuries. It will delight anyone who loves birds laments the depletion of their populations by human hands & cares about the survival of those species that still stand a chance. With knowledge devotion & a true artists eye Albus explains in graceful precise prose why the decline of these bird species is a great loss both to the natural world & unavoidably to culture. With each species lost a world is lost to human understanding-to our arts our mythology & our environment."
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