Joe Girard's 13 Essential Rules of Selling: How to Be a Top Achiever and Lead a Great Life
The World's Greatest Salesman Reveals the Techniques of His Astounding Success This newest book from sales phenomenon JOE GIRARD-- The 13 Essential Rules of Selling --provides all the ammunition you need to succeed in an economy where budge...
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics a...
Rebecca & Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor
A mat-leave murder mystery, complete with post-partum physiotherapy and suspicious grocery store footage. Rebecca s got an eight-month-old baby and a mystery to investigate! Late one summer night as she s breastfeeding Lucie, she spots two men car...
Battling to the End
Engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. This title shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. It pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the a...
Violence and the Sacred
"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."-...
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and itnerest it can be compared with F...
Evolution and Conversion
Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought. René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative...
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Develops a global theory of culture through the paradox of violence and exclusion serving a social function.
Anorexi Och Mimetiskt Begär
Girard har betonat upptagenheten vid offret som utmärkande för den moderna kulturen, men det är särskilt hans idé om det mimetiska begäret, tillämpat på dagens konsumtionsmönster och skönhetsideal, som ger ett nytt, socialt och historiskt perspektiv på ätstörningarnas allt akutare problem. Den springande punkten i hans resonemang är imitationens betydelse i överföringen av idealiserade kroppsbilder, i media, reklam och träningshallar. Ur Anders Olssons Inledning