Spoilt Rotten. The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality, Paperback - Theodore Dalrymple

The first biting analysis of our obsession with sentimentality and why it will ruin us.Publisher: Gibson Square Books LtdAuthor(s): Theodore Dalrym...

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The pleasures of car travel around rural Britain are considered by former prison psychiatrist and author of The Knife Went In Theodore Dalrymple, w...

Reducere. When Theodore Dalrymple wrote The Examined Life, poking fun at modern man's excessive concern for his own health, he little thought that Covid-19 w...

Reducere. "The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human conditio...

Reducere. DescriptionThe cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absur...

Reducere. When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so muc...

Reducere. Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection...

Reducere. Human life is filled with predicaments. In these eight stories, Theodore Dalrymple examines how people struggle with everyday conflicts and frustra...

Reducere. Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes...

Reducere. In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different school...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 291Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 207 x 143 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. In this, Theodore Dalrymple's second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid ...

Reducere. Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British p...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 326Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 206 x 136 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Daniel (Independent Practitioner, USA) E. SnyderIllustration(s): 70 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publ...

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Reducere. Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime cla...

Reducere. I have traveled far and wide, far beyond the simple parish I envisioned as a young man. My obligation of service has led me into diverse yet interr...

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering ...

Reducere. In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously un...

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'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly, ' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.'

Reducere. From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious...

Ten years ago, a distraught freelance writer locked himself in a room and furiously scribbled his way out of a cataclysmic week. Though Mikel Jolle...

Reducere. The first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/b...

Kohinoor. Istoria controversata a celui mai faimos diamant din lume Prima istorie completa si documentata a Koh-i-Noor-ului, probabil cea mai celeb...

Reducere. Does injustice have an expiration date? Is it possible to wipe the slate clean of crimes of such magnitude, simply because the victims who suffered...

Award-winning, critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India

Reducere. In this wickedly funny guide, professional astrologer Hazel Dixon-Cooper casts off sugar-coated astrology in favor of exploring the maladjusted sid...

Reducere. The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl is the 3rd book in The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Series. Mary Jekyll and the Athena ...

Reducere. Think you could never join a cult? So did I. Cults thrive on secrecy, isolation, deception, and manipulation as they coerce even worldly and intell...

Reducere. An essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's orig...

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there wa...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Faith JonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

In Seeing Red, Cari M. Carpenter examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson,...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (2013) - Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: William DalrympleA Best Book of the Year: The Ec...

Reducere. DescriptionThis slim volume, privately printed in 1884, was based on hand-written records in a note-book kept in Ayr Barracks. It consists of a yea...

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Written by a Brussels insider, and a senior EU economist, this title deals with the likely pitfalls of European monetary union.

Reducere. DescriptionFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers...

Taking a holistic approach, this book gives a succinct summary of how toxic cultures develop and shows how they can be remedied with practical take...

Reducere. Premiering in the pages of Black Mask magazine during the speak of editor Joseph T. Shaw's era, author Theodore A. Tinsley penned one of the longes...