Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: unreason, american
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-02-12
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0375423745
ISBN-13: 9780375423741

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and,

Author: Michael Appignanesi
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: beginners, marx
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1979-03-12
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0394737164
ISBN-13: 9780394737164

A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it’s Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He’s put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there’s a biography of "Charlie" Marx besides.Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate, understandable, and very, very funny.

Author: Stuart Schram
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: letters, people, talks, mao, chairman
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1974-12-12
List price: $5.56
ISBN-10: 0394706412
ISBN-13: 9780394706412

Author: R.D. Laing
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: experience, politics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1983-08-12
List price: $12.45
ISBN-10: 039471475X
ISBN-13: 9780394714752

Laing attacks accepted assumptions about the nature of "normality" with a challenging view of the mental sickness built into our society.

Author: John W. Dower
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: war, pacific, power, race, mercy
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1987-02-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0394751728
ISBN-13: 9780394751726

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race -- while writing what John Toland has called "a landmark book...a powerful, moving, and even-handed history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan."Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Do

Author: Aleksandr Afanasev
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: fairy, folklore, library, tale, pantheon, tales, russian
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1976-09-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0394730909
ISBN-13: 9780394730905

Nearly 200 characteristic and colorful traditional folk and fairy tales are brought together in the only comprehensive edition available in English. Of the original 1945 edition, Eudora Welty wrote, "These Russian tales are rambunctious, full-blooded and temperamental. They are tense with action, magical and human, and move in a kind of cyclone of speed....These tales are gorgeous."

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: writers, modern, pantheon, destroyed, woman
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-08-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0394711033
ISBN-13: 9780394711034

These three long stories draw us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. In the title story, the heroine’s serenity is shattered when she learns that her husband is having an affair. In "The Age of Discretion," a successful, happily married professor finds herself increasingly distressed by her son’s absorption in his young wife and her worldly values. In "The Monologue," a rich, spoiled woman, home alone on New Year’s Eve, pours out a lifetime’s rage and frustration in a harrowing diatribe. Enthralling as fiction, suffus