In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you …
The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed …
Answering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone …
This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight …
The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in …
In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of …
In Freud's view we are driven by the desire for pleasure as well as by the desire to avoid pain. …
This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often …
