Bowie's summaries of Lacanian psychoanalysis are both clear and complete. The organization of the book by broad topics (such as "Symbollic, Imaginary,Real...and True"), rather than by individual works, allows a Lacanian novice an overview of things to come, as well as an invaluable conceptual scaffolding that makes reading works such as "Ecrits" tolerable and comprehensible.

This essential account of Lacan's influence on narrative studies is not to be missed. High points include Jeffrey Mehlman's essay, and Jerry Aline Flieger's treatment of joke theory as narrative paradigm. All the essays are remarkably readable, which is refreshing for a book on Lacan.

Jean-Michel Rabate's Lacan In America explicitly address the issues that arose from a meticulous consideration of Lacan psychoanalytic concepts. The contributor essays include: The Place of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in North American Psychology (Kareen Ror Malone); Lacan in America (Joseph H. Smith); What Is Wrong with French Psychoanalysis? Observations on Lacan's First Seminar (Paul Roazen); Please Read Lacan! (C. Edward Robins); New Resistance to Psychoanalysis (Gerard Pommier); Psychoanalysis: Resistible and Irresistible (Patricia Gherovici); Lacanian Reception (Catherine Liu); October's Lacan, or In the Beginning Was the Void (Steven Z. Levine); Lacan's New Gospel (Michael Tort); Construction, Interpretation, and Deconstruction in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Nestor A. Braunstein); "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" (Erich D. Freiberger); On Lacan and Mathematics (Arkady Plornitsky); The Body as Viewing Instrument, or the Strut of Vision (Joan Copjec); The Experience of the Outside (Christopher Lane); The Subject of Homosexuality (Frances L. Restuccia); The Philanthropy of Perversion (Judith Feher Gurewich); On Female Homosexuality: A Lacanian Perspective (Marcianne Blevis). Also highly recommended is Alain Vanier's Lacan (1-892746-50-6, ...).

Lacanian Ink provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of French psychoanalyst-philosopher Jacques Lacan. The essays by authors as diverse as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jacques -Alain Miller, David Hayman and Juliet Flower-McCannell as well as art critics such as Raphael Rubinstein, David Ebony and Josefina Ayerza, and feminist-theorists Peggy Phelan, Jan Avgikos and Joan Copjec, not to mention Richard Foreman, John Yau and Lynne Tillman, map the shiftings of Lacanian theory in the USA. Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social and cultural phenomena, Lacanian Ink represents a powerful contribution to a psychoanalytical theory of ideology as well as offering persuasive interpretations of the contemporary art scene.

The woman with her back to us might be Grace Kelly. It is an afternoon full of the languor of warmth. Minutes before, luncehon has ended and the air is spiced with aioli, lavender and Chanel. Just out of shot the last of the ice is cracking under the drained Dom Perignon. Thus from the sumptuous cover of this memorable family album we are invited by Jacques-Henri Lartigue into the conspiracy of fantasies that only the French Riviera accommodates. Lartigue's access was privileged. Born into wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, his natural stomping ground comprised the grands salons of the greatest hotels on earth - the Eden Roc at Antibes, the Negresco at Nice, the Gray d'Albion at Cannes. From these gilded terraces he dreamed of being a painter, while the Hispano-Suiza cooled at the kerb. Like Bonnard and Matisse before him it was the light that enmeshed him, and from the age of eight, when he received his first wood-frame camera, he was experimenting with color and form in the manner of the modernists. But Edenic Riviera life offers attractions which, in volume and variety, can become distractions. Perhaps this explains the paucity of international coverage of Lartigue's growth before the middle sixties, and the failure of his measure alongside Blumenfeld and Man Ray. A born adventurer and bon vivant, he courted the Riviera's copious delights - in company of Abel Gance, Maurice Chevalier, Colette, Chagall - with a dionysian abandon that may have undercut his work. But the work is what it boils down to, and the sample presented here, compressed from the 130 albums and 100,000 negatives he presented for conservation to the French government in the late 70s, displays a genius as emblematic of midi magic as Matisse. Unlike Brassai, Lartigue was working till the end of his long life. As he approached his nineties he commenced a dramatic series of light impressions entitled "As Long as I Still Have a Shadow". These (glimpsed here) perhaps best express the intangible beauty of a blue day at Cannes, and the abiding value of Lartigue.

This is a real sensible book which describe the hard life of poor French colons in Algeria, region of the city of Oran. The story relates of a character who wanted to live his dreams out of metropolitan France and wanted to go to the "new world" of Algeria in 1946, just after World War II. Although I am the son of the author, I discover an extra sensibility from my father which I did not know when I was living with him as a child. Although the book is written in French it is worthwile discover it as it is written from the heart of Jacques Canteau.

Well that is a pity. I found it in a good Spanish translation and read it, and it is a wonderful tale. It is serious history, thoroughly documented and reasoned, but it is well written in a narrative tone. The First Crusade was, of course, one of the greatest adventures ever sustained by mankind, full of horrific and splendid deeds and events.

It started in 1095 at the urging of Pope Urban II, and soon people from different parts of Europe were making their disastrous, long and terrible way to the Holy Places. There were basically four "armies": the Lorennians, led by Gottfried of Bouillon; the Normans, led by Robert of Normandy; the Provenzals, led by Raymond de Saint-Gilles; and the Normans from Southern Italy, led by Bohemund of Tarento.

These brave, ambitious, ruthless and at the same time very religious men led thousand of Europeans into the Middle East, conquered Antiochia and Jerusalem and established their kingdoms. Now that the Middle East is in the eyes of everybody, it would be well worth it to take a look at how it was 1000 years ago: not much has changed in terms of violence and division

Magnificent adventure well told by a master in Middle Ages studies.

Once upon a time a little boy appeared with a bottomless sack, full of wings. There were fluffy white wings, scissor-pointed wings, gossamer wings, even wooden wings, in all shapes, colors and sizes. The Little Wing Giver called out to all, "Come get your wings./Beautiful wings!/Come get your wings/And fly, fly, fly!" And birds, insects and butterflies all came to him, and soon the world was full of flight. But the wind grew jealous one night, and blew all the Little Wing Giver's wings away, forever. The Little Wing Giver grew sad and very tired and lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The birds sang to him and the insects tickled him, but he wouldn't wake up. Finally, a nosy magpie saw one last pair of wings sticking out of the Little Wing Giver's pocket. The creatures quickly attached them to his shoulders, and he soared away, up into the sky. "And it was on seeing the Little Wing Giver flying toward Him through a sunlit cloud that gave God the idea of creating angels."..... Jacques Taravant has written a whimsical and evocative story, that will charm youngsters with its imagery and magic. His tender text, and gentle message, is complemented by award winning artist, Peter Sis' enchanting illustrations and together they've authored a spiritual and uplifting story that's sure to become a classic. Perfect for all ages, The Little Wing Giver is a wonderful family read-aloud story to share and discuss and pass on to loved ones, friends and future generations.

Nice colours and nice drawings for a world of flowers, elfs, magicians and space ships.
A whole saga of 6 (soon 7) books, with a sense of spirituality in the complex world of the Galatic Confederation. A ray of sun in the french cartoons.

This is a fine little piece of Maritain's work. Starting with the definitions of the body politic, state, nation, etc. Maritain elucidates the proper notion of authority in a democracy, an authority that can must be in accord with Natural Law. The chapter on human rights is worth the cost of the book itself, as the west is in dire need of a sound notion of human rights and ought to jettison the ilusory notions of such as promulgated and derived from the philosophies of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau.

It is no surprise that Maritain played a significant role in drafting a charter on human rights with the United Nations. Read this work in conjunction with his other work entitled "Natural Law" and also Yves Simon's "Philosophy of Democratic Government"