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Savage Seasons
(French Voices)
by Kettly Mars, Jeanine Herman, Madison Smartt Bell
Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7148-7, ISBN: 0-8032-7148-4

"Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visits Raoul Vincent, secretary of state at the Office of Public Safety. This fearsome head of the secret police is instantly smitten, and to ensure her husband's survival and protect her family, ..."






Intimate RevoltThe Powers And Limits Of Psychoanalysis
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Hardcover, 291 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-11414-1, ISBN: 0-231-11414-1

"Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a retur ..."






Laure(Updated)
The Collected Writings
by Laure Peignot, Jeanine Herman, E. Laure, Jeanine Herman Laure, Laure Colette Laporte
Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-293-7, ISBN: 0-87286-293-3

"This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes -Story of a Little Girl, - about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; -The Sacred, - a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism; notes on her association with contr-attaque and acephale, and her involvement with the Spanish civil war and the early years of the Soviet Union; a compendium of correspondence with her be ..."






Do Not Touch(1st Edition)
by Eric Laurrent, Editor-Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 131 Pages, Published 2009 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-431-5, ISBN: 1-56478-431-2

"When French mafioso Oscar Lux saved Clovis Baccara from killing himself, he became the boss and something of a mentor to Clovis. Twenty years later, it is no surprise that Clovis is named best man when Oscar decides to settle down and get out of the business. Fulfilling his role as second-hand man, Clovis is entrusted with the job of guarding Oscar s new bride when Oscar is taken into police custody for embezzlement and racketeering on ..."






Intimate Revolt(Updated)
The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2003 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-11415-8, ISBN: 0-231-11415-X

"Julia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May '68 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concept of rebellion and revolution. Psychoanalysts believe that rebellion guarantees our independence and creative capacities, but is revolution still possible? Confronted with the culture of entertainment, can we build and nurture a culture of revolt, in the etymological and Proustian sense of the word: an unveiling, a retur ..."






The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10996-3, ISBN: 0-231-10996-2

"Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy.In her latest book on the powers and limit ..."






Two Sisters and Their Mother(Updated)
The Anthropology of Incest
by Francoise Heritier, Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 341 Pages, Published 2002 by Zone Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-942299-34-2, ISBN: 0-942299-34-5

"The sharing of a sexual partner between relatives has always been taboo. In this stunning work, anthropologist Françoise Héritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history, from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes, and finds a secondary type of incest, which she calls the incest of two sisters. The term refers not to incest between two sisters, or b ..."






Two Sisters and Their Mother(1st Edition)
The Anthropology of Incest
by Françoise Héritier, Jeanine Herman, Franç Ritier, Christopher S. Wood, Hé Oise
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1999 by Zone Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-942299-33-5, ISBN: 0-942299-33-7

"An anthropologist's view of the incest taboo through and across cultures, including a new interpretation of kinship that emphasizes the primacy of the symbolic.The sharing of a sexual partner between relatives has always been taboo. In this stunning work, anthropologist Françoise Héritier charts the incest prohibition throughout history, from the strict decrees of Leviticus to modern civil codes, and finds a secondary type of incest, wh ..."






Hatred and Forgiveness(Reprint)
(European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14325-7, ISBN: 0-231-14325-7

"Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of ..."






Hatred and Forgiveness
(European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14324-0, ISBN: 0-231-14324-9

"Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovatiysical ons that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analy ..."






Archeology of Violence(Updated)
(Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
by Pierre Clastres, Jeanine Herman, Ashley Lebner, Professor Jeanine Herman, Sylvã Re Lotringer
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by Semiotext(E)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-093-4, ISBN: 1-58435-093-8

"The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.--from The Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethn ..."






The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt(Updated)
by Julia Kristeva, Jeanine Herman, University Of Paris
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10997-0, ISBN: 0-231-10997-0

"Linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist, Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential and prolific thinkers of our time. Her writings have broken new ground in the study of the self, the mind, and the ways in which we communicate through language. Her work is unique in that it skillfully brings together psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, literature, linguistics, and philosophy.In her latest book on the powers and limit ..."






Horoscope
by Henry Miller, Leon Paul Fargue, Elie Faure, William Saroyan, Rudy Burckhardt, Jeanine Herman, Anna Moschovakis
Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 2000 by Turtle Point Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-885983-18-3, ISBN: 1-885983-18-2

"A 1937 Henry Miller letter accompanied by essays from Leon-Paul Fargue, Elie Faure, William Saroyan"






Etienne-Jules Marey(1st Edition)
A Passion for the Trace
by Francois Dagognet, Robert Galeta, Jeanine Herman, Professor Jeanine Herman
Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 1992 by Zone Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-942299-64-9, ISBN: 0-942299-64-7

"Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), the brilliant French physiologist, developed photographic techniques for the study of animal locomotion that directly influenced the invention of cinematography. His work and the images he created are among the very sources of modernity, yet his own history and background remain obscure. Marey's strange story emerges in this fascinating acco ..."






Reading Writing
by Professor Julien Gracq, Professor Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2006 by Turtle Point Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933527-02-4, ISBN: 1-933527-02-1

"Every reader is a potential writer, and every writer is a reader in actuality. Reading Writing is a subjective history of fiction and poetry and a personal meditation on the links between literature and two visual arts: painting and cinema. Gracq’s poetics is founded upon the basic acts of reading and writing and on the relationship between the writer and his language. This first English-language edition of En lisant en écrivant will ma ..."






Postproduction
by Nicolas Bourriaud, Caroline Schneider, Jeanine Herman
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Lukas & Sternberg
ISBN-13: 978-0-9711193-0-7, ISBN: 0-9711193-0-9

"lN THE SAME SERIES Liam Gillick five or six Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Caroline Schneider 2000, (# 001) english/german 11 x 17 cm, 144 p., 7 color ill., paperback lSBN 0-9671802-6-0 $ 15.- /€ 15.- Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de ..."






Pinocchio
(Disney Editions Deluxe (Film))
by Pierre Lambert, Jeanine Herman
Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 1997 by Disney Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-6247-4, ISBN: 0-7868-6247-5

"Accompanied by interviews with the artists on the original animation team and an extensive research of Disney Archives, this intriguing animation history assesses and celebrates the art of the classic Disney animated feature Pinocchio. "






Postproduction(3rd Edition)
(Sternberg Press)
by Nicolas Bourriaud, Jeanine Herman, Caroline Schneider
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Lukas & Sternberg
ISBN-13: 978-0-9745688-9-8, ISBN: 0-9745688-9-9

"Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World is the most recent essay by French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud. The author discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. This art of postproduction seems to resp ..."






European Perspectives
a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.: The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt : The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis
by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Jeanine Herman
Digital, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-51843-7, ISBN: 0-231-51843-9

"more specific and widespread, with parallels frequently drawn between planetary and political mutations.8 That's all I have to say about the evolution of the term “ revolt,” but I hope I have given you an idea of the richness of its polyvalence; I wanted to wrest it, etymologically, from the overly narrow political sense it has taken in our time. From these various etymological uses, I would like you to remember what I will call the ..."






Herman Johnson Master Fiddler
39 Solos by America's Legendary Fiddler
by Jeanine Orme, Herman Johnson
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2015 by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7866-8623-0, ISBN: 0-7866-8623-5

"Transcribed and edited by one of Herman Johnson's former students, this book offers 39 solos in the inimitable smooth, precise, and innovative Johnson style. Inspired in his youth by Bob Wills of the Texas Playboys, Johnson learned tunes by listening to records and the radio. At 16, he successfully auditioned to play in Willis' band, but was then too young to join the musicians union. Johnson went on to a distinguished career as a perfo ..."



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