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How to Live. What to Do: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Tolstoy? Literatur ...Show more
How to Read Freud by Josh Cohen
$25.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: How to Read
In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word, or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that makes psychoanalysis have so many oponents.
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop by Josh Cohen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Self Help | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' - Oscar Wilde. More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonises idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest ...Show more
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop by Josh Cohen
$25.00 NZD
Category: Self-help
How inactivity can be a necessary and creative condition to a life worth living.
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the one element in us that we can't possess? Could i ...Show more
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen
$29.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the one element in us that we can't possess? Could it ...Show more
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