Books

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Volume 7
- edited by Jacques-Alain Miller
- Translated with notes by Dennis Porter
- W.W. Norton, 1992
- $26.50

"This fascinating personal account offers a remarkable picture of the late-20th century, seen through sensitive eyes and interpreted by a compassionate, searching soul."—Noam Chomsky, author of Failed States

Three quarters of the planet is ocean and 80 per cent of all life lives here. They give us so much, yet we know relatively little about them. Planet Ocean is a window onto this secret world. Through stunning photographs, taken on a sixteen-month ‘Defending Our Oceans’ expedition, Greenpeace reveals wonderful sights that few people have seen, and also some that certain people would like us not to see.

- The Paul Virilio Reader
- Edited by Steve Redhead
- Columbia University Press, 2004
- Paperback
- $ 32.50

• Herald Press; 1963
• Paperback; 32 pages
• 9780836113143

• David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Todd Gitlin, Reuel Denney
• Yale University Press; 2001
• Paperback; 315 pages
• 9780300088656

The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes.

Hippocrates and Francis Adams
- Kessinger Publishing, 1946
- $62.20

Inside the Bottle provides a vivid and disturbing portrayal of how four big companies – Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Danone – dominate the bottled water industry and examines key issues of public concern about their operations.

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism is a catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, and injustice— as well as a damning indictment of capitalism created with both love and rage.

The hotly debated report from the frontlines of mounting backlash against multinational corporations.

Book Two: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954- 1955
- Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, Translated by Sylvana Tomaselli, With notes by John Forrester

Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert on Haitian social movements, brings together thirty-eight oral histories from a diverse group of Haitian women. The interviewees include, for example, a former prime minister, an illiterate poet, a leading feminist theologian, and a vodou dancer. Defying victim status despite gender- and state-based repression, they tell how Haiti's poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.

In 2005, Peruvian activist Hilaria Supa Huamán was one of 1000 women from around the world nominated in the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign. She was elected Congresswoman in Peru for 2006–11.

• Karl Marx
• Penguin Classics; 1991 edition reprinted
• Paperback; 1,152 pages
• 9780140445701

The third volume of the book that changed the course of world history, Capital's final chapters were Marx's most controversial writings on the subject, and were never completed.

The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freedman brings decades of teaching experience and scholarship to her selections, which span more than five centuries.

First published in London in 1848, the Communist Manifesto is one of the most important books of all time: a document which helped to define the emerging socialist movement, altered the course of world history, and is universally acknowledged to be a cornerstone of modern social thought.

• Charles Darwin
• Edited by Gillian Beer Price
• Oxford University Press; 2008
• Paperback; 432 pages
• 9780199219223

• Alasdair MacIntyre
• University of Notre Dame Press; 2007
• Paperback; 312 pages
• 978-0-268-03504-4

When After Virtue first appeared

Goat wakes up one morning simply bursting to explore the Great Outdoors. He has his tent, his rucksack, his binoculars, and even his favourite teddy, but Goat just can't decide where to go. After some gentle advice from the ever-patient Donkey, Goat discovers that the best place for a holiday might not be very far away at all and he pitches his tent in the garden . . . which means that Donkey can come along, too. Perfect!