In "A Jewish State," Theodor Herzl presents a compelling and visionary blueprint for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, articulated in a fervent literary style that melds passionate advocacy with pragmatic solutions. Written in 1896 and contextualized within the rising tides of nationalism and anti-Semitism in Europe, Herzl's work argues for the political and social ramifications of establishing a sovereign Jewish state as a refuge for the Jewish people. It offers a blend of polemic, ...

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars across Dante studies and translation studies to chart the English-language translation journey of the Divine Comedy from the 18th century to the present.The book is divided into four sections, each taking in turn a different dimension of the rise in popularity of English-language translations through the 21st century. The first section includes introductory chapters outlining the historical context around Dante’...

The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change takes a fresh look at the many forms of unconscious communication that take place in the analytic situation. Bringing together two decades of the author’s previous writing as well as a considerable amount of new material, this book addresses a major contemporary issue in the field of psychoanalysis.Unconscious communication in the analytic situation takes many forms. This book explores a number of these pathways as the author ...

This is a book about fairies. There’s only one problem … there are monsters hiding around every corner, just waiting to pull all sorts of silly pranks. Are there even any fairies in this book?

In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that highlights critical contributions from the first ten Aronov lecturers.Secti...

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions of psychoanalytic thinking comment on a selection of nine cases and suggest ways of managing these both technically and theoretically. They have a variety of theoretical structures and axioms in t...

This volume addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening. While this issue has been discussed widely in the literature, most often the discussions are from the standpoint of technique. Listening to Others is among the first texts to consider the listening process from the so-called 'two-person' perspective-i.e., that which is aligned with intersubjective, interpersonal, and relational theories. The contributors to this volume all are well-known experts in con...

In "A Jewish State," Theodor Herzl articulates an impassioned vision for the establishment of a sovereign nation for the Jewish people, born from the pervasive anti-Semitism of late 19th-century Europe. Herzl's prose intertwines political theory with poignant personal narrative, employing a blend of optimistic realism and visionary idealism that was innovative for its time. Writing against the backdrop of rampant discrimination, this seminal work not only pioneered the modern Zionist movem...

Palace intrigue, high seas piracy, the first war in Afghanistan, Elizabethan politics and TR’s take on the War of 1812 – it’s all here and more in Strategy Six Pack Six, another awesome military multi-manual for historians and tacticians. In this six-pack:The Suppression of Piracy by Henry Keppel and James Brooke.Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott.The First Afghan War by Mowbray Morris.The Nav...

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fac...

The essential feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a picture of the trend to superiority, need for admiration, and lack of sensitivity to others. Individuals with narcissistic disorder have, for most of the time, a high self-regard. They routinely exaggerate their skills, often appearing arrogant. They think they're special, superior, have to be satisfied in every request.

Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive Navy requ...