Impedimenta
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668562
Case Study
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. Bu..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668364
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the f..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668401
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc...
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668234
Encyclopedia of Early Earth
Before our history began, another -- now forgotten -- civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he pad..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668418
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators a..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668326
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scor..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553418
What is Africa to Me?
Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668319
The Bridge of the Arts
Can't tell a masterpiece from a run-of-the-mill painting? Let Baudelaire show you the difference. Do you know what André Breton, Kiki de Montparnasse and Man Ray spent their time doing, between romps and romps? Evoking the convulsive beauty of "The Turkish Bath", by Ingres! Are you intrigued by the ..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668340
Misadventure
The heroes and the villains blur in "Misadventure", a kind of neo-Romance set in a desperate and remote Andalusia, at the same time unreal and authentic, mythical and wild, full of extreme characters: quinquis, sorceresses, hunters, demons that move over the radio waves, good-hearted mercenaries or ..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668876
Unsettled Ground
Jeanie and Julius are 51 years old and live with their mother in the middle of the English countryside. They do not have internet, television or bank accounts. They don't have a partner. They also have no father: he died when they were children. They grow vegetables in their garden and play music to..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788417553586
Outside Looking In
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the dr..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668302
A Fairly Good Time
Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of using her myopia as a de..
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