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All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experience in order to tangle with love's paradoxes through the span of our live ...Show more
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Relationships
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in the rain or tearing our hair out. Or duelling with his shadows, hate, jealousy and loss. This book tangles with the paradoxes of love through the span of our lives - from rapturous love to love in 'marriage', in the family and in fri ...Show more
Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi
$40.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
A short, potent examination of the ways in which our sanity can become, suddenly, elusive, Everyday Madness is a deeply personal and brave account of subjects that resonate powerfully for so many of us.Unfolding in three sections, Everyday Madness delves into the aftermath of Lisa Appignanesi's partner' ...Show more
Everyday Madness - On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi
$25.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it had sat on the shower shelf where he had left it. I looked at it every day.' After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state ...Show more
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Lisa Appignanesi
$27.99 NZD
Category: Feminism
Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, a ...Show more
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, Rachel Holmes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Feminism
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink? In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, ac ...Show more
Losing the Dead by Lisa Appignanesi
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics
As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In her quest she flew to Warsaw - imagi ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
Mad, Bad and Sad: The History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi
$77.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de Mericourt, Fury of the Gironde, who descended from the bloody triumphs of the French Revolution to untameable insanity in La Salp ...Show more
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers by Sigmund Freud; Joan Riviere (Translator); Lisa Appignanesi (Contribution by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on met ...Show more
The Memory Man by Lisa Appignanesi
$39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Bruno Lind is on a mission, though he may not know it. Irene Davies knows she is, but isn't sure it's the right one. Both of them are haunted by the legacy of a tangled history of love and war.