Product Description: 'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on understanding this aspect of human nature...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays by leading scholars from France, Great Britain and North America is published in honour of Peter Bayley, former Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a leading scholar of early modern France...read more

Product Description: The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, as writers, most famously La Rochefoucauld, argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice: people carry out praiseworthy deeds because they stand to gain in some way; they deserve no credit for their behaviour because they have no control over it; they are governed by feelings and motives of which they may not be aware...read more

Product Description: From joining the Ennis Battalion of the FCA in 1949 until his retirement as a Colonel in 1992, Michael Moriarty experienced almost the full range of domestic and foreign postings in which the Irish Army participated. He served in Congo, Cyprus, Angola, and Lebanon as part of Irish contributions to UN missions...read more

Product Description: After Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over. He could not rescue all the dogs that Judd mistreated, but since Shiloh was the one who ran away and came to him, Shiloh was the one he loved...read more

Product Description: From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analyzing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfillment by living our lives according to reason, the highest and noblest element of our nature) survives, even, to some extent, in Descartes...read more

Ronald Manes, a wealthy basketball player, becomes the patient of psychiatrist J. C. Kaminer, but when Ronald's wife is stabbed to death and suspicion falls on him, Kaminer must find the real killer. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

This book provides introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the 20th century's most important literary and cultural theorists. New in the "Key Contemporary Thinkers" series, it covers all aspects of Barthes' writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty argues that Barthes' writing must not be seen as an unchanging body of thought, and that we should study his ideas in the contexts within which they were formulated, debated and developed. Among the topics covered are Barthes' early semiology as applied to mass culture, his writings on theatre, the "high-structuralist" period and the "death of the author", and discourse analysis.