Berger: 852 books
by John Berger
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2018
John Berger non sopportava di essere definito un critico d’arte. Lo riteneva un insulto. Eppure per tutta la vita ha continuato a descrivere i suoi incontri con l’arte, le epifanie di fronte a un dipinto o una scultura, i viaggi immaginari negli atelier in cui un’opera veniva pensata e realizzata....
Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance
What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
In this provocative contribution to both psychoanalytic theory and the philosophy of science, Louis Berger grapples with the nature of "consequential" theorizing, i.e., theorizing that is relevant to what transpires in clinical practice. By examining analysis as a genre of "state process...
Misdiagnosed
One Woman's Tour of--And Escape From--Healthcareland
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller
"Berger movingly details her journey to healing. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the fact that there is no such thing as one size fits all in medicine."—Gayatri Devi, MD, clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, and author of A Calm...
Little Big Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest....
Arthur Rex
A Legendary Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A “splendid” and witty take on the Arthurian legend by the acclaimed author of Little Big Man (The New York Times Book Review).
The myth of King Arthur has been told countless ways since the sixth century, always combining action, adventure, romance, and tragedy. In Arthur Rex, Thomas Berger...
Art and Revolution
Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very...
by John Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning...
by George Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Imagine, if you would, that a single simple change could radically improve not just the quality of your (short) fiction, but - oh, why not? - the rest of your life, as well. It's a nice dream, isn't it? It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling of hope, doesn't it? Sadly, buying and reading this e-book...
Hold Everything Dear
Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist,...
A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when...
Invitation to Sociology
A Humanistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much...
Workable Sisterhood
The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people...
Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...