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Necessary Evil by Lindsay Welsh
Historian Garry Wills traces the varieties of opposition to government and sees these as essential elements of the fabric of the nation. From the founding fathers through John Brown through Martin Luther King, Jr. he considers key personalities and movements, their principles and actions, and the way they shaped America. He also considers the role of those on the fringe such as bomber Tim McVeigh and puts left and right and principled and unprincipled in perspective.

AUTHOR: Lindsay Welsh
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller
One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers. Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions and the attraction of transgression, Lacan illuminates Freud's psychoanalytic work and its continued influence. Lacan explores the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocle's Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytic experience. His exploration leads us to startling insights on the consequence of man's relationship to desire and the conflicting judgments of ethics and analysis.

AUTHOR: Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Dreaming by the Book by Elaine Scarry
In this book, noted literary theorist Scarry breaks down the ways that writers employ their imaginations to create fictional worlds, and analyzes how writers' methods of imagining connect to the methods readers use to bring books to life in their own minds. The book includes passages of guided reading that exemplify the methods Scarry discusses.

AUTHOR: Elaine Scarry
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Passions & Impressions by Margaret Sayers Peden, Matilde Neruda, Miguel Otero Silva, Pablo Neruda
This collection of prose pieces demonstrates Neruda's versatility. He writes eloquently about travel, friendship, exile, history, and his beloved homeland, Chile.

AUTHOR: Margaret Sayers Peden, Matilde Neruda, Miguel Otero Silva, Pablo Neruda
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of droogs thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until Alex is captured by the judicial arm of the state. He then becomes their prized guinea pig in a scientific program to completely redeem him for society. If we had the power of absolute criminal reform, what, the novel asks, would this mean for our ideals of freedom and society? This edition reinstates the final chapter missing from Kubrick's film and from all American editions prior to 1987, in which Alex is on the verge of starting a family as he reflects on--and completely rejects--his adolescent nastiness. It also includes Burgess's introduction A Clockwork Orange Resucked.

AUTHOR: Anthony Burgess
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Aesop's Fables by Barry Caldwell, Fritz Kredel, J. Clauss, Jerry Pinkney, Jonathan Kent
A grand collection of morality tales that underline our civilization

AUTHOR: Barry Caldwell, Fritz Kredel, J. Clauss, Jerry Pinkney, Jonathan Kent
PUBLISHER: Naxos of America, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Fiction