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Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Remedies for Modern Ailments (Paperback): Georges M. Halpern, Andrew H. Miller Medicinal Mushrooms - Ancient Remedies for Modern Ailments (Paperback)
Georges M. Halpern, Andrew H. Miller
R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While almost all mushrooms share beneficial properties which heighten the immune system, the chapters of this book are dedicated to mushrooms that are the most promising possibilities for healing a variety of illnesses, including reishi (for liver disorders), cordyceps sinesis (anti-ageing), maitake (cancer), and hericum erinaceud (Alzheimer's Disease), among others. Mushrooms have been found in human culture for thousands of years. They have been used as a medicine since the very beginning, but in the past fifty years several major advancements in medicine have come from mushroom and other fungi, including the most famous of all, penicillin. This book explores mushroom history, as well as their possible uses in the future.

On Not Being Someone Else - Tales of Our Unled Lives (Paperback): Andrew H. Miller On Not Being Someone Else - Tales of Our Unled Lives (Paperback)
Andrew H. Miller
R495 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling." -Adam Phillips "A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities." -New Yorker We live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children-every decision precludes another. But what if you'd gone the other way? From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe consider the roads not taken, the lives we haven't led. What is it that compels us to identify with fictional and poetic voices tantalizing us with the shadows of what might have been? Not only poets and novelists, but psychologists and philosophers have much to say on this question. Miller finds wisdom in all of these, revealing the beauty, the allure, and the danger of sustaining or confronting our unled lives. "Miller is charming company, both humanly and intellectually. He is onto something: the theme of unled lives, and the fascinating idea that fiction intensifies the sense of provisionality that attends all lives. An extremely attractive book." -James Wood "An expertly curated tour of regret and envy in literature...Miller's insightful and moving book-both in his own discussion and in the tales he recounts-gently nudges us toward consolation." -Wall Street Journal "I wish I had written this book...Examining art's capacity to transfix, multiply, and compress, this book is itself a work of art." -Times Higher Education

Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Hardcover, New): Andrew H. Miller Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Hardcover, New)
Andrew H. Miller
R2,704 Discovery Miles 27 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England, using the image of the "display window". Novels Behind Glass analyzes the work of Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope, and Gaskell, to demonstrate that the Victorian novel provides us with graphic and enduring images of the power of commodities to affect our beliefs about gender, community, and individual identity. It will be of interest to students of Victorian literature and history as well as social and cultural theory.

Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Paperback): Andrew H. Miller Novels behind Glass - Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Paperback)
Andrew H. Miller
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on work in critical theory, feminism and social history, this book traces the lines of tension shot through Victorian culture by the fear that the social world was being reduced to a display window behind which people, their actions and their convictions were exhibited for the economic appetites of others. Affecting the most basic elements of Victorian life - the vagaries of desire, the rationalisation of social life, the gendering of subjectivity, the power of nostalgia, the fear of mortality, the cyclical routines of the household - the ambivalence generated by commodity culture organizes the thematic concerns of these novels and the society they represent. Taking the commodity as their point of departure, chapters on Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 suggest that Victorian novels provide us with graphic and enduring images of the power of commodities to affect the varied activities and beliefs of individual and social experience.

The Burdens of Perfection - On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Paperback): Andrew H. Miller The Burdens of Perfection - On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Paperback)
Andrew H. Miller
R719 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are." from The Burdens of Perfection

Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods.

Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers."

The Burdens of Perfection - On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed): Andrew H.... The Burdens of Perfection - On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Andrew H. Miller
R1,209 R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Save R214 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are." from The Burdens of Perfection

Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods.

Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers."

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