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  • Doctors and Healers

    by Tobie Nathan, Isabelle Stengers ...
    We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly technical and rational process, but one that scarcely listens to patients at all.In this book, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • To Sit on the Earth

    A Memoir

    by Tobie Nathan ...
    Translated by Joyce Zonana, Janet Lee ...
    Series series The French List
    A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry.In To Sit on the Earth, pioneering ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan charts his intellectual and emotional journey, from his youthful infatuation with Freud and Wilhelm Reich to his mature adoption of anthropologist Georges Devereux’s ethnographic approach to psychoanalysis.Expelled from Egypt as a Jew in 1956 when ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Wandering Souls

    by Tobie Nathan ...
    Translated by Stephen Muecke ...
    In September 2014, the French government entrusted Tobie Nathan with the task of counselling radicalized young people who had been drawn to jihadism and in this book he recounts his experiences of some of the young people he met and counselled. He describes what he heard, felt and perceived in his encounters with these young people and their loved ones as he tried to understand the forces running ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Burn This Book

    Notes on Literature and Engagement

    Edited by Toni Morrison ...
    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political ... Read more

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  • Give Me Everything You Have

    On Being Stalked

    by James Lasdun ...
    A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate in the crucible of the digital age.Give Me Everything You Have chronicles author James Lasdun's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist," who began trying, in her words, to "ruin him." Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons ... Read more

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  • The Christopher Hitchens 4-Book Collection

    God is Not Great; Hitch-22; Arguably; Mortality

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    "Christopher Hitchens is the greatest essayist in the English language." —Christopher BuckleyChristopher Hitchens has long been considered on of the most compelling and intelligent writers and orators on our time. In this four-volume eBook bundle, no subject is left unconsidered in Hitchens's hands: from the case against god and religion in God Is Not Great; to various "Amusements, Annoyances, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    by Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • When Memory Comes

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    by Saul Friedländer ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    The “classic of Holocaust literature” about childhood and family, faith and identity—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and featuring an introduction by Claire Messud (The Guardian).Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, 7-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the ... Read more

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  • The Genius of Judaism

    by Bernard-Henri Lévy ...
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    From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism.“A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times.”—The Washington PostFor more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage—one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's foremost philosopher and activist confronts his ... Read more

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    The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the other, Michel Houellebecq, bestselling ... Read more

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