Used price: $6.00
Buy one from zShops for: $8.95
Used price: $5.29
Collectible price: $8.47
List price: $14.99 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $7.30
Buy one from zShops for: $9.91
Used price: $77.96
As noted by Francis M. Nevins Jr. in his biography of Woolrich, "First You Dream, Then You Die", Woolrich liked to tell different stories about his early life with little regard to consistency with the known facts or with other stories that he told. There isn't enough known about Woolrich to be able to say with certainty that these stories are or are not true, but it does not matter because they are fascinating nonetheless, and can stand with the best of his stories. Although they cannot, for the most part, be classified as belonging to his chosen field of mystery/suspense, they share many of the elements of his best work: vivid pictures of "everyday life", finding and telling the stories in ordinary situations, and a knack for making you feel for and with the characters.
While it is a fairly minor point, I found the introductory essay by Mark Bassett a bit annoying in the way that it contains bibliographical references that are i) in a different format than the actual bibliography; and ii) cannot be matched to any bibliographical entry in many cases. I had the sense that this essay was trimmed down or excerpted from a longer essay (possiby a thesis, given the publisher?), but not carefully editted.
In spite of that minor complaint, we should all be thankful to Mark Bassett for bringing these Woolrich tales to print.
Used price: $6.00
Used price: $8.95
Collectible price: $10.58
Buy one from zShops for: $10.63
List price: $14.95 (that's 30% off!)
Used price: $8.00
Collectible price: $7.40
Buy one from zShops for: $8.75
Used price: $36.20
Buy one from zShops for: $36.20
Solms' basic idea is that we now have (as Freud did not) two ways of looking at mind. One is Freud's way: we use free association, interpretation, etc., to look at mind subjectively. The other is the neuroscience way: objective studies of the changes in behavior wrought by changes in the brain. To find out fully about mind, we have to put these two methods together. And he does!
Frankly, this growing movement of neuro-psychoanalysis seems to me the only thing that will stave off the impending death of psychoanalysis. Solms addresses quite directly the afflictions affecting psychoanalysis and offers hope, very concrete grounds for hope. Also, the book can serve as a very nice introduction to neuroscience.
Let me put it quite bluntly: Anyone seriously interested in and concerned about psychoanalysis who doesn't read this book is simply nuts!
Norman Holland, University of Florida
Returning postwar to hunt down camp guards for liquidation. A true War Hero, but his suffering and the loss of those around him - Captain Desmond Hubble, Pierre Brosselette, Violette Szabo - make one realise the price. As a teenager fighting the Russians with Pilsudski in Poland he was sentenced to death; escaped from Zhitomir. as a man he ran Molyneux couturier of Paris; in 1939 he joined #.308 Krakowski Squadron of the polish Air Force in England; then to SOE and life as an agent in Occupied Paris - sitting on a train with Klaus Barbie, Butcher of Lyon.
A remarkable man, an amazing story, he escaped the Concentration Camp but ded in 1964 of its after-effects. A book to be read as much as a testament to human endurance, as to think of a truly remarkable man enduring great travails for his friends and comrades.