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A tribute to author Iris Murdoch, now stricken with Alzheimer's disease, written by her husband of over forty years, in which he discusses their passionate love relationship and traces the progression of her affliction.
Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and of aging and a clebration of a brilliant life and an undying love. So John Bayley descibes his life with his wife, Iris Mudoch who has Alzheimer's.
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, "Beautiful Souls" explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention.
A dramatic novel reveals the true nature of the nuclear defence industry as Quine, a physicist, unexpectedly becomes involved with Superbright, a project conceived to protect the world from nuclear weapons, and is plunged into a realm where greed and personal gain reign supreme …
Physicst Philip Quine is pulled into the byzantine world of a nuclear weapons lab as it struggles to maintain its mission and its funding in the post-Cold War world.
From the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journ…
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposâe of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car" $1 (Bwith tips along the way …
"Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing att…