All of us have probably experienced the fact that it is possible to have been familiar for a long time with some great work of imagination—some poem or picture—to have learnt to love it almost as if it were a living person, to imagine that we understand it and appreciate it fully, even to fancy that it has a special message, a deeper meaning, for us than for almost any one else, and then to come across somebody—some commentator perhaps—who informs us that our uncritical appreciation is qui...

This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary societyAs seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world." (Kirkus Reviews)Forget the world that came before. The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society.With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the ...

A ruggedly independent, often bullheaded genius, Henry Ford was scarred by battles with bankers, labor unions, newspapers, and courts. He had been denounced as a tyrant and a crank and hailed as a prophet. Through it all, he went his own stubborn way, telling his opponents and the entire nation exactly what he thought of them and still selling millions of cars. Here, in this essay by historian Bernard A. Weisberger, is Ford's remarkable story.

En la vigilia de Bernard-Henri Lévy el pensamiento se confunde con la confesión; es el viaje de un insomne que se enfrenta, sin máscaras, a su conciencia y su tiempo.La noche en vela es el autorretrato más íntimo y sorprendente de Lévy. A través de una escritura torrencial, el filósofo francés convierte el insomnio en un territorio donde confluyen la memoria, la culpa, la lucidez y la ironía. Incapaz de dormir, repasa su vida —las guerras que ha presenciad...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's seminal work, "On the Love of God." It delves into the nature, stages, and implications of divine love as presented by Bernard, offering a comprehensive analysis of his teachings and their relevance to both spiritual and practical aspects of Christian life. The book is structured into twelve chapters, each addressing a key dimension of Bernard's thought, from the nature of divine love and its transformative power to i...

"Disturbed Ireland" by Bernard Henry Becker delves into the complexities of Irish society, exploring themes of conflict, identity, and resilience. Through vivid storytelling and rich character development, Becker paints a portrait of a nation grappling with its past while striving for a hopeful future. The narrative intertwines personal stories with historical events, providing readers with a profound understanding of the emotional landscape of Ireland. Becker's insightful observations and...

Dans ce livre, il y a donc la Bosnie, avec ses coulisses où s'agitent diplomates officiels et officieux, avec ses combats perdus puis gagnés. Il y a aussi ce qui se passe à Paris, lors d'un entretien avec le Président Mitterrand, d'un déjeuner avec Alain Juppé ou bien encore aux Nations unies, à Londres avec John Major, au Vatican, ou bien parfois, entre des intellectuels se livrant une guerre qui, pour être moins sanglante, n'en est pas toujours moins cruelle. Avec la guerre de Bosnie a-t...

Este volumen consiste en una serie de testimonios, diversos y complementarios, acerca del papel y la importancia del psicoanálisis en la búsqueda de espacios de libertad.Pese a su juventud, surgido hace apenas un siglo, el psicoanálisis ha marcado con huellas imborrables la cultura occidental. Sigmund Freud y Jacques Lacan abrieron este saber para preguntarse por aspectos hasta entonces insondables de la religión, la autoridad patriarcal, el derecho, la ley, el arte...

Pendant 200 jours, de Benghazi à l'Elysée, de New-York à Tripoli, des fronts de la Libye libre aux quartiers généraux de la diplomatie occidentale, un écrivain a été le témoin privilégié et, en plusieurs occasions, l'acteur d'une guerre sans précédent.Il a tout noté.Jour après jour, parfois heure par heure, il a tenu l'exacte chronique de cette séquence, décisive, du "printemps arabe".C'est ce Journal qu'il publie aujourd'hui.C'est l'envers et l'endroit, la coul...

Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America’s Gilded Age was fraught with risk because of the uncertain identities of the artists and the conflicting interests of the dealers. Stanley Mazaroff’s fascinating account of the close relationship between Henry Walters, founder of the legendary Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and Bernard Berenson, the era’s preeminent connoisseur of Italian paintings, richly illustrates this important chapter of America’s cultural history.Whe...

One of the West's leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America's withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western worldand to oppose autocracy and repression. Even when America did not live up ...