Perverse mind

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David Clark

Over almost 10 years, the work of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) played a formative role in the advancement of end-of-life care in the US. The project concerned itself with adults and children, and with interests crossing boundaries between the clinical disciplines, the social sciences, arts, and humanities. PDIA engaged with the problems of resources in poor communities and marginalized groups and settings, and it attempted to foster collaboration across a range of sectors and organisations. This book examines the broad, ambitious conception of PDIA and assesses PDIA's contribution to the development of the palliative care field and to wider debates about end-of-life care within American society.

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Neil Simon

Eugene Jerome, a naive recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi where he encounters a tough drill sergeant and an electic group of fellow recruits.

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von Hans-Joachim Lang

Die Einführung in das Gesamtwerk *George Orwells* macht deutlich, mit welch bedrückender Konsequenz die Essays und Romane dieses faszinierenden Autors zu einer autobiographisch geprägten Dokumentation eines scheiternden Kampfes um die Menschlichkeit werden. Diese Entwicklung wird von Hans-Joachim Lang anschaulich dargestellt: Er zeigt, wie Orwells Erkenntnis, daß alle Revolutionen nur zu einer Machtverschiebung führen, ohne daß die gesellschaftlichen Strukturen verändert werden, und wie Orwells Furcht vor der Zerstörung des Individuums durch den totalen Staat sich von Buch zu Buch stärker entwickeln. Höhepunkte bilden dabei die Interpretationen der pessimistisch-satirischen „Farm der Tiere“ und der beklemmenden Zukunftsvision „1984“, die neben Huxleys „Schöner neuer Welt“ und Samjatins „Wir“ die wichtigste Anti-Utopie der Moderne ist.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

An anthology of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems, including in their entirety his books "Nature: Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," and "The Conduct of Life," as well as his volumes of poetry and other essays, addresses, and poems from his manuscripts.