www.bibliophilebooks.com 73069 OVERCOMING ANXIETY FOR
PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- Jean de la Fontaine 74644 CARL JUNG: Wounded
Healer of the Soul by Claire Dunne
Jung and Freud were the giants of 20th century psychiatry and their rivalry is a field where there are still secrets to be uncovered. Jung kept notebooks vividly describing his thoughts and dreams, and after his traumatic break with Freud in 1913 he wrote The Red Book which has only recently been published after
decades of speculation about the contents. Claire Dunne outlines the stormy relationship between Jung and Freud which led to their acrimonious parting of ways, with Jung accusing Freud of making blunders in his relationships with patients. This fascinating study continues with Jung’s inner life as revealed in The Red Book using text, calligraphy and illustration. The Spirit of the Depths struggles with the Spirit of the Times and a new God image emerges, together with the voice of the Anima or feminine spirit. Jung has to develop the important realisation that the Other is part of his own psyche and that there are dark places within him. The snake is a transformative image, emerging from the mouth of the crucified Christ. Among the many illustrations in his spiritual journey are a terracotta of Krishna Battling the Horse Demon, Magritte’s enigmatic painting of the Six Elements picturing the compartmentalisation of people’s lives, a powerful Eskimo Shaman carved by Lucassie Ohaytook, and Mary Cassatt’s delicate painting “A Young Woman in a Garden”. The author also discusses Jung’s relationships with his wife Emma and his mistress and muse Toni Wolff. 272pp, colour reproductions. £18.99 NOW £9
74619 EXCEPTIONAL BRAIN AND HOW IT CHANGED THE
WORLD by Robert M. Kaplan People with exceptional brains have the power to break the mould and change things, but not always in a good way. The author is a forensic scientist who has used his skills to assemble evidence about 22 dysfunctional people who had a profound effect on history or culture. Hitler had such a dysfunctional
personality that the term “psychopath” does not seem adequate. Many medical diagnoses have been made of the state of his brain, but Parkinson’s Syndrome now seems the most likely, possibly associated with encephalitis lethargica. At the other end of the scale of human achievement, the polymath and artist Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed and the writer believes this suggests that his speech and language skills were situated in the right hemisphere of the brain, a known characteristic of geniuses. The Russian dancer Nijinsky spent the last years of his life in psychiatric hospitals and was almost certainly schizophrenic, with grandiose fantasies and paranoia. He was primarily heterosexual in spite of his long and famous partnership with the choreographer Diaghilev, whom he came to see as an enemy. Van Gogh, tormented, tortured, messianic, probably had Geschwind’s Syndrome, with his hypergraphia and religiosity being symptoms which were shared by Geschwind himself, not to mention Ezekiel, St Paul, Dostoevsky and Gershwin. The author believes that most of the 22 people discussed here left the world a better place. 337pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £5
74067 TRAUMA
by Professor Gordon Turnbull Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can affect anyone. Symptoms have been seen in those suffering bereavement, illness and infection, traffic accidents, house fires and sexual assault and abuse. But in almost every case, there is a cure. Professor Gordon Turnbull has offered care and counsel to hundreds of sufferers including the Mountain Rescue teams at Lockerbie, soldiers like Andy McNab, kidnap victims like Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Terry Anderson and many more from all walks of life. 656pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £3
72020 LIVING WITH LOSS by Liz McNeill Taylor
Subtitled ‘A Guide for the Recently Widowed’ here is a practical and compassionate book which gives hope for the recently bereaved. The author shows how over time the healing process can be assisted, and how you can get the most from friends, organisations and resources to make life enjoyable again. In this sympathetic account, she discusses with painful honesty the problems surrounding a suddenly bereaved woman - issues of money, sex and children. 188pp, paperback. £8.99 NOW £2
72128 SLEEPYHEAD’S BEDSIDE COMPANION by Sean Coughlan
Take an undercover mystery tour into the history of the bed, gourmet sleep recipes, pyjamas, sleeper trains, the Big Sleep and best sleep movies, bed testers, lullabies, Pepys’s erotic dreams, futons, water beds and why children like frightening bedtime stories. Find out how much Edwardian children slept, insomnia, counting sheep, sex, drugs and overdoses, shift workers, light pollution, REM sleep, Freud and Jung, Surrealism and dreams, sleep walking and death. Illus. 256pp in paperback.
£7.99 NOW £1.75
DUMMIES: Audio Book by Elain Iljon Foreman et al
This expert audio book guides you through techniques giving you proven practical advice on relaxation methods, nutritional guidance and how to combat anxiety through exercise to help you deal with strains in everyday situations and challenge your negative thoughts. Go to
dummies.com for videos, step-by-step examples and how-to articles. Two CDs running time 120 minutes.
£12.99 NOW £4.50
73297 THINK! BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE by Edward De Bono
The lateral thinking guru examines why our current way of thinking is not good enough, and what we can do about it. By examining the way we think from a historical perspective, and suggesting 23 reasons why thinking is so poor, and by answering the questions: What Can I Do? What Can You Do? What Can Society Do? he reveals that, if we can get our thinking right, we will be able to solve problems more easily. 258 paperback pages, useful websites. £12.99 NOW £4.50
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Choose you this day whom ye will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
- Joshua 24:15
74921 SAVING CHURCHES: The Friends of Friendless
Churches: The First 50 Years by Matthew Saunders The parish church used to be the centre of village life. These buildings are a collective museum of local culture and they embody the sweep of the nation’s recorded history in their architecture and art,
in stone, brick, wood, brass, sculpture, stained glass and calligraphy. The Friends of Friendless Churches was founded in 1957 by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas to save beautiful and historic places of worship from demolition or degradation. The organisation now owns 40 (20 English and 20 Welsh) former places of worship, which have been preserved repaired and reopened as peaceful places for visitors and the local community to enjoy. This book, with a foreword by Prince Charles, himself a regular visitor to many of the Friends’ and other restored ecclesiastical buildings, showcases all 40, which superb photography that touchingly records these sites’ interiors and exteriors and celebrates the work of the Friends and the local companies and craftsmen who have helped in their restoration. For each there is a short history and full visitors’ information and several appendices provide further information on the Friends and the buildings. 128pp softback, 9¼”×11", over 300 photos, mostly colour.
ONLY £5
74620 FREEDOM AND ORDER: History, Politics and
the English Bible by Nick Spencer
We feel pretty safe in asserting that readers, whether they believe in God or not, would have to agree that the impact of the Bible, particularly the King James version, on English literature and culture has been very great indeed. Even the famous atheist Professor Richard Dawkins has remarked that: ‘You
cannot appreciate English literature unless you are steeped… in the King James Bible’. On the other hand, most people seem to think that its influence on British politics has had very little significance. The author of this controversial volume is Research Director at Theos, the public theology think-tank. Here, he shows how, without the influence of the Bible, British political history would have been incomparably different, and suggests that only by continuing to hold its twin themes - freedom yet order - in creative tension can we hope to maintain a healthy political culture. He even goes so far as to assert that, in fact, the Bible is the single most influential document in British political history. He traces its immense effect on national politics, from its role in the formation of national identity, through its setting limits on kingship in Anglo-Saxon times and its impact on ideas of tolerance, democracy and equality, right up to its subtle influence on the formation of the Welfare State and on the rhetoric of modern Prime Ministers. 370 pages with illus.
£16.99 NOW £6 74630 LITTLE HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY by Nigel Warburton Unusually, this book about philosophers not only presents the grand sweep of humanity’s search for philosophical understanding but also makes the subject accessible and invites readers to join in the discussion by thinking, arguing and reasoning. This, after all, was what Socrates did when he spent his days
in the ancient Athenian marketplace, asking awkward questions and disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging history introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it. In 40 brief chapters, the author, a Senior Lecturer in the subject, guides readers on a tour of the major ideas. He
provides interesting and often quirky stories from the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers, all the way from the ancients, like Aristotle, who debated freedom and the spirit, to Alan Turing, who asked: ‘Can computers think?’ a disquieting question that haunts our own times. 252 pages with line drawings. £14.99 NOW £6.50
73781 HOW CHRISTIANITY CAME TO BRITAIN AND
IRELAND by Michelle Brown Roman religion was not hostile to native deities, and when the empire was Christianised the existing ritual sites were often adapted to the new religion, for instance the Celtic shrine at Chedworth Roman Villa may have been turned into a
Christian baptistery. Ship burials such as Sutton Hoo derive from Viking culture, and the illuminated books are often a blend of different traditions. A key feature of early Christianity is the sea travel that allowed the cult to radiate out from Iona and enabled early Christians such as St. Canice (Kenneth) to travel between Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Although the mingling of cultures defines Dark Age Christianity, at the same time the level of hostility between British and English religious authorities. Beautiful colour reproductions, some in fold- out features, maps. 208pp. £16.99 NOW £5
73825 THE GODS OF ROMAN BRITAIN by Miranda J. Green
The book first examines the pre-Roman Celtic background to Romano-British religion from about 500BC and chapters analyse the nature of the evidence, the introduction of Roman religion to the province, oriental cults including Christianity, the integration of Roman with pre-existing British and other Celtic cults. The final chapter examines stylised Celtic representations of anonymous divinities. 76 page Shire paperback. Illus. £5.99 NOW £3
73798 TEMPLAR REVELATION
by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Picknett and Prince’s now-famous discoveries of hidden symbolism in Leonardo da Vinci’s works, especially The Last Supper and The Virgin of the Rocks is revealed, here with some new startling additions in this 10th anniversary edition, fully revised and updated. It is a cracking piece of art-detection history which follows hot on the trail of the secrets of the Knights Templar, the Cathars, Masonic and esoteric groups, the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and a little-known but highly significant Iraqi sect. They dare to ask was Jesus really the true Messiah, or was John the Baptist intended to be the chosen Christ? 621pp, paperback, photos. £8.99 NOW £3.50
74177 CHRISTIAN WORLD: A Social and
Cultural History of Christianity by Geoffrey Barraclough
How has Christian doctrine evolved and what meaning can it have in the modern world? Since it is founded on a miracle - the incarnation of God in Christ - it asks more of its believers, imaginatively, than any other world faith. It makes the supernatural not merely an ideal but an historical fact and it postulates a cosmic framework of original sin, divine sacrifice and eternal salvation for which the evidence is, to say the least, tenuous. Socially, it seems to be both egalitarian, although rarely to the point of disturbing the ruling class, and hierarchical. Politically, it has justified both revolution and repression. Intellectually, it has accommodated almost every philosophical theory and scientific discovery. Ethically, its emphasis on personal responsibility allows an almost infinite range of behaviour. Psychologically, it places supreme value on the uniqueness of each individual while offering an interpretation of the human condition that is universally applicable. 328 pages 30cm x 22cm, map and illus in colour and b/w. £19.95 NOW £7
72621 MEDITATIONS ON LIVING, DYING AND LOSS: The Essential Tibetan Book of the
Dead edited by Graham Coleman The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the world’s spiritual classics and this anthology provides an introduction for those who want to go deeper into Buddhist teachings about dying, bereavement and the after-death state. Buddhist philosophy teaches a continuity of consciousness after death, while belief about the nature of personality places more emphasis on community and interdependence than in the west. 188pp, line drawings. $23.95 NOW £3
74220 WHAT PHILOSOPHERS THINK edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom
Philosophy is sometimes thought to be about ideas or theories and what regulates the flow of ideas in philosophy is rational argument. How is technology changing the way we understand life? Where is God? Does art have a value? Is science the new philosophy? Is freedom possible? These are only some of the questions addressed in this collection of interviews with the world’s leading philosophers and intellectuals covering the themes of religion, politics, sex, language, feminism, evil and art. 245pp in paperback. £13.99 NOW £4
74203 ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: An
Illustrated History by Edward Norman The Catholic Church is remarkable for its degree of continuity. This beautifully illustrated survey is an analysis of the Church in the world, of how it related to the moral and political practices of each place in which Christians tried to live their faith, and of ways in which the Church and society, through dialectical exchange, encountered and tried to deal with the aspirations of successive generations. It is an account of much conflict. People who value their ideals are militant about them and the Church has never been static. The book is also partly a story of remarkable people, from the greatest theologian of the early Church, St Augustine, to one of the greatest world figures of the modern age, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Its broad focus is an historical account of epic proportions, how Rome’s Empire came to
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an end but Rome itself became the heart of the Roman religion, what occurred during the schism with Byzantine Orthodoxy, and the transformation of the whole of Western Europe into Christendom. Today, it concludes, the Catholic Church, embodies Christ’s injunction to ‘Teach all Nations’. 192 pages 26cm x 21cm, 152 illus, 58 in colour.
£22.50 NOW £7.50 72654 INNER JOURNEY: Views from the Hindu
Tradition edited by Margaret Case The great tradition of Hindu meditation aims to know the self and unite it with a greater spiritual reality. The Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata, which includes Krishna’s inspiring words to Arjuna, are the best known in the west. Personal devotion may take the form of puja, the daily offering to a family deity. This selection of writings from Parabola publications in the past 30 years draws together the enduring features of Hinduism. 341pp, paperback, colour plates. £15.99 NOW £4.50
73748 THE BIG QUESTIONS: God by Mark Vernon and Simon Blackburn The author, a former priest, tackles some of the thorniest challenges of religion, including the problem of evil, the truth of sacred texts, the power of prayer and the ultimate purpose of existence. On the way, he attempts to provide convincing answers to really big questions such as: Does human suffering rule out God? Is there life after death? Will science put an end to religion? This book is designed to ask some of the oldest questions concerned with spirituality, religion and God. 208 pages, illus. £12.99 NOW £3.50
71161 SAINTS: A Visual Guide by Edward and Lorna Mornin St Benedict, St David of Wales, St Wendelin, St Korbinian, St Olaf, St Zita, St Roch, St Joan of Arc, St John of the Cross, St Joseph of Copertino - here are more than 130 of the most popular saints from the Archangels to St Bernadette and Padre Pio. Each saint is pictured in colour or beautiful wood engraving and an invaluable key enables the reader to identify saints by their attributes. 296pp in 2006 first edition, paperback. £12.99 NOW £3.50
! SCIENCE
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamp post – more for support than illumination.
- Andrew Lang
74522 VIOLINIST’S THUMB: And Other Extraordinary True Stories Written by our Genetic Code by Sam Kean Now that after decades of research, billions of laboratory hours, number- crunching on an unimaginable scale and no little infighting and backstabbing the human genome has finally been decoded, what does it tell us? Can it explain such questions as how the human race almost became extinct not once but
several times in its short history, yet somehow managed to cling on, unlike so many other species? Can it explain people born with no fingerprints or possessed of a tail? Or, as the book’s title notes, how did the right combination of genes create thumbs and figures so exceptionally flexible to make a truly singular violinist? As reading the stories encoded in our DNA becomes easier and we make ever greater advances in gene mapping and modification, the limits of what is and what could be achievable are being pushed ever further, to an extent which would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago. How can society, the law and religion hope to keep up with, let alone address the immensity of the imminent explosion in genetics, and what does it mean for ourselves and the world in which we live? Kean addresses the biggest of questions with a wealth of extraordinary true stories from the world of genetics. 401pp with b/w illus. £20 NOW £7
74127 HOW TO DESTROY
THE UNIVERSE by Paul Parsons
Subtitled ‘And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics’ here are the 35 key physics ideas presented in a way that anyone can understand. Discover how to turn lead into gold, to travel to the centre of the Earth and how to use physics to predict the stock market. Find out how to make the loudest sound on Earth, build an atomic bomb, how to fit a power station in
your pocket and how to be everywhere at once. 346pp. Paperback. £8.99 NOW £3
73292 RENAISSANCE GENIUS: Galileo Galilei and His Legacy to Modern Science by David Whitehouse
Published in 2009 in celebration of the 400th anniversary of his first observations of our solar system and the stars beyond it, this is a lavishly produced exploration of the life and science of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Galileo quickly found himself on a collision course with the Catholic Church once he realised the full implications of his observations. Less well known are his other accomplishments - the thermoscope, the geometric and military compass and his water-lifting machine. Accused of heresy and threatened with torture by the Inquisition, he was sentenced to spend his last years under house arrest. He was not officially pardoned until his opinions were accepted by the Catholic Church nearly 400 years later! Colour illus. 256 7½” × 9½” pages. $24.95 NOW £5
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