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Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses / Theodore Dalrymple.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005.Description: xi, 341 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1566636434 (alk. paper)
  • 9781566636438 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • City journal (New York, N.Y.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610/.92 B 22
LOC classification:
  • HM621 .D151o 2005
  • R489.D357 A3 2005
Other classification:
  • 71.50
Online resources:
Contents:
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM621 .D151o 2005 | R489.D357 A3 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 1 Available 00000058285

"Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire.

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