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Life at the Bottom

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Life at the Bottom

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.

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Ivan R. Dee

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161578019X

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9781615780198

Not With a Bang But a Whimper

The Politics and Culture of Decline

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Not With a Bang But a Whimper

The Politics and Culture of Decline

By: Theodore Dalrymple

Cultural Decline, global politics.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566638518

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9781566638517

Admirable Evasions

How Psychology Undermines Morality

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Admirable Evasions

How Psychology Undermines Morality

By: Theodore Dalrymple

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.

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Encounter Books

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1594037884

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9781594037887

False Positive

A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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False Positive

A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine

By: Theodore Dalrymple

The New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most important general medical journals in the world. Doctors rely on the conclusions it publishes, and most do not have the time to look beyond abstracts to examine methodology or question assumptions. Many of its pronouncements are conveyed by the media to a mass audience, which is likely to take them as authoritative. But is this trust entirely warranted? Theodore Dalrymple, a doctor retired from practice, turned a critical eye upon a full year of the Journal, alert to dubious premises and to what is left unsaid. In False Positive, he demonstrates that many of the papers it publishes reach conclusions that are not only flawed, but obviously flawed. He exposes errors of reasoning and conspicuous omissions apparently undetected by the editors. In some cases, there is reason to suspect actual corruption. When the Journal takes on social questions, its perspective is solidly politically correct. Practically no debate on social issues appears in the printed version, and highly debatable points of view go unchallenged. The Journal reads as if there were only one possible point of view, though the American medical profession (to say nothing of the extensive foreign readership) cannot possibly be in total agreement with the stances taken in its pages. It is thus more megaphone than sounding board. There is indeed much in the New England Journal of Medicine that deserves praise and admiration. But this book should encourage the general reader to take a constructively critical view of medical news and to be wary of the latest medical doctrines.

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Encounter Books

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1641770473

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9781641770477

Farewell Fear

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Farewell Fear

By: Theodore Dalrymple

Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. This collection of recent essays captures Dalrymple at his best, ruminating at one moment about why poisoners tend to be more interesting than other kinds of murderers and at another why Tony Blair's mind reminds him of an Escher drawing. No one else writes so engagingly and so candidly about the world as it is, not as the politically correct would have it be. -- Dr. Charles Murray author of Coming Apart and The Bell Curve

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World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press

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0985439475

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9780985439477

Anything Goes

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Anything Goes

By: Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English Review. A note on the cover from New English Review Press: This jazz age photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston reflects the classical conviction that the human form expresses a spiritual level of beauty, the artwork of God, if you will. It is also a statement about the essential humanism of Dr. Dalrymple's work. One cannot look at that figure and see an animal or a machine. Rather one sees something truly beautiful and truly human.

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World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press

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0578084899

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9780578084893

The New Vichy Syndrome

Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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The New Vichy Syndrome

Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

By: Theodore Dalrymple

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, globalized world. Europe is at the forefront of nothing, its demographics are rapidly transforming in unsettling ways, and the ancient threat of barbarian invasion has resurfaced in a fresh manifestation. In The New Vichy Syndrome, Theodore Dalrymple traces this malaise back to the great conflicts of the last century and their devastating effects upon the European psyche. From issues of religion, class, colonialism, and nationalism, Europeans hold a “miserablist” view of their history, one that alternates between indifference and outright contempt of the past. Today’s Europeans no longer believe in anything but personal economic security, an increased standard of living, shorter working hours, and long vacations in exotic locales. The result, Dalrymple asserts, is an unwillingness to preserve European achievements and the dismantling of western culture by Europeans themselves. As vapid hedonism and aggressive Islamism fill this cultural void, Europeans have no one else to blame for their plight.

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Encounter Books

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1594035679

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9781594035678

The Examined Life

So Little Done

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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The Examined Life

So Little Done

By: Theodore Dalrymple

A brief and witty satire on the contemporary health and safety culture by world-renowned doctor-writer Theodore Dalrymple. The unnamed anti-hero is a man who takes to heart every tabloid newspaper health scare, guards himself against every conceivable illness and worries endlessly about his mortality. He wears protective clothing to go shopping when he can't shop online and every inch of unprotected skin is smeared in various creams and lotions. Unfortunately, his caution is his eventual undoing as this elegantly written and amusing novella reaches its climax.

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1906308160

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The Pleasure of Thinking

A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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The Pleasure of Thinking

A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

By: Theodore Dalrymple

What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.

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1908096640

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9781908096647

The Financier

American Classics Series

By: Theodore Dreiser

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The Financier

American Classics Series

By: Theodore Dreiser

This is the first volume in Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire." The other two volumes are The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947).

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e-artnow

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8026894952

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9788026894957

Saving the Planet and Other Stories

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Saving the Planet and Other Stories

By: Theodore Dalrymple

Human life is filled with predicaments. In these eight stories, Theodore Dalrymple examines how people struggle with everyday conflicts and frustrations - or create them for others. The challenges of modern life are revealed to be both tragic and amusing in these enthralling stories touching on the nature of contemporary society, its character and characters.Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Admirable Evasions and Around the World in the Cinemas of Paris.

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1735705527

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The New Vichy Syndrome

Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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The New Vichy Syndrome

Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Encounter Books

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1594035679

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The Financier; A Novel

in large print

By: Theodore Dreiser

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The Financier; A Novel

in large print

By: Theodore Dreiser

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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710

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3387013701

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9783387013702

New York Citations. Cases Affirmed, Reversed, Modified and Cited in All the Reports of the State of New York, from 1794 to the Present Time

By: Theodore Connoly

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New York Citations. Cases Affirmed, Reversed, Modified and Cited in All the Reports of the State of New York, from 1794 to the Present Time

By: Theodore Connoly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385399963

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9783385399969

Enlightened Zeal

The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670-1870

By: Theodore Binnema

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Enlightened Zeal

The Hudson's Bay Company and Scientific Networks, 1670-1870

By: Theodore Binnema

Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly. Working from the company’s voluminous records, Ted Binnema demonstrates the significance of science in the company’s corporate strategies. Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning. The first study of scientific research in any chartered company over the entire course of its monopoly, Enlightened Zeal expands our understanding of social networks in science, establishes the vast scope of the HBC’s contribution to public knowledge, and will inspire new research into the history of science in other chartered monopolies.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442666951

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9781442666955

Trilogy of Desire

The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic

By: Theodore Dreiser

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Trilogy of Desire

The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic

By: Theodore Dreiser

The saga of a Gilded Age mogul’s rise and fall, inspired by a real historical figure, from the author of An American Tragedy. Inspired by the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, these three novels weave a tale of American capitalism in the late nineteenth century. Included in this volume are: The Financier: Ruthlessly ambitious businessman Frank Cowperwood finds his life derailed by the financial panic of 1873. The Titan: Cowperwood leaves prison and heads to Chicago to regain his fortune—but his past follows close behind him. The Stoic: In London, Cowperwood pursues the opportunity to make a fortune from a new underground railway system, while facing hard truths about the life he has lived and the fate that lies ahead. Praise for the Trilogy of Desire “An amazingly intricate description of high-rolling 19th-century finance.”—The Wall Street Journal

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Rosetta Books

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0795352867

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9780795352867

H.M.S. Hood vs. Bismarck

The Battleship Battle

By: Theodore Taylor

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H.M.S. Hood vs. Bismarck

The Battleship Battle

By: Theodore Taylor

An account of the WWII sea battle by the author of The Cay: “The story of the Bismarck is one of exciting high adventure, and [Taylor] captures it nicely.” —The New York Times From the award-winning author, this is a compelling history of the sinking of British battlecruiser H.M.S. Hood in the cold waters of the North Atlantic in 1941. It was a great loss to the Royal Navy and resulted in the deaths of more than fourteen hundred sailors. Soon the Allies were in hot pursuit of the Bismarck, the German fleet’s biggest and most fearsome ship. The Nazi battleship would meet its end just days after it sank the Hood—and this book tells the riveting story of this deadly confrontation at sea.

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Open Road Media

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1504077164

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9781504077163

The Impact of College on Students

By: Kenneth A. Feldman,Theodore M. Newcomb

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The Impact of College on Students

By: Kenneth A. Feldman,Theodore M. Newcomb

In this landmark work, Kenneth Feldman and Theodore Newcomb review and synthesize the findings of more than 1,500 studies conducted over four decades on the subject. Writing in 1991, Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini maintained that The Impact of College on Students not only provided the first comprehensive conceptual map of generally uncharted terrain, but also generated a number of major hypotheses about how college influences students. They also noted that Feldman and Newcombe helped to stimulate a torrent of studies on the characteristics of collegiate institutions and how students change and benefit during and after their college years from college attendance. The Impact of College on Students is now a standard text in graduate courses as well as a standard and frequently cited reference for scholars, students, and administrators of higher education. Much of what we understand about the developmental influence of college is based on this work.

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Routledge

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1000679748

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9781000679748

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