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A Godless Jew
Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis
“Why did none of the devout create psychoanalysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?” Freud once asked. In this book, the eminent historian and Freud scholar Peter Gay enters the long-running controversy...
National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings, Volume 1
Brescia, Bergamo and Cremona
This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized...
A Brush With Nature
The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches
Revised Edition
More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors...
The Rise of the Penitentiary
Prisons and Punishment in Early America
Before the nineteenth century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. Only after independence did American states begin to reject such public punishment as whipping...
Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts
This book constitutes an expansion of the highly esteemed Glossary of the American Psychoanalytic Association into a mini-encyclopedia that presents both historical and current meanings of the most widely...
Nietzsche's Teaching
An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra—an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert’s...
China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s
What role will China play in world affairs during the 1980s, now that it has normalized relations with the United States and opened wider its economic doors? In this thoughtful and important book, six respected...
John Smibert
Colonial America`s First Portrait Painter
John Smibert (1688-1751) was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This book by Richard Saunders is both a catalogue raisonné of Smibert's work and a discussion of...
The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called ...
A Class Divided, Then and Now, Expanded Edition
For two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, gave her pupils a unique lesson in discrimination. The first day, brown-eyed children were declared “superior...