Segal: 192 books
The Journal I Did Not Keep
New and Selected Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."—The New York Times
"Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine introduction to her work."—Kirkus...
by Francesca Segal
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2017
«Un romanzo famigliare molto intelligente, irresistibile e scritto con eleganza. »
Nick Hornby
«Uno sguardo attento su un rapporto sempre problematico, quello tra una madre e una figlia adolescente... La scrittura di Francesca Segal è spiritosa, saggia e molto intelligente. Bellissimo....
Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow
Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.
Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here,...
The Secret of Life Wellness
The Essential Guide to Life's Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Heal your body and discover your deepest purpose with this transformative guide to integrating wellness and restorative solutions into your everyday life.
Everyone comes into this world with the ability to be a visionary, access Divine wisdom, and follow their internal guidance system. The...
Close-Up
Memoirs of a Life on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Zohra Segal’s no-holds-barred memoir is feisty, irreverent and candid — a ringside view of nearly a hundred years of her life on stage and screen, in India and England. In 1930 Zohra Segal struck out and went to Germany to study modern dance at Mary Wigman’s Dance School in Dresden. It was a most...
by Hanna Segal
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
What is the role of psychoanalysis in today's world?
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to new ideas...
Half the Kingdom
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
*"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." **—***Margot Livesey
*"I always feel in her work such a sense...
Life After Death
A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.
In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together...
Struck
A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
One of life's biggest clichés becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. Miraculously, his daughter was unharmed, but his wife faced a series of life-threatening injuries, including the same one that famously left Christopher...
Radical Happiness
Moments of Collective Joy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives
In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A paradox confronts us. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular...
by Charles Segal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as President-elect and President. As a revelation of the intimate, human side of Abraham Lincoln, it...
The Work of Hanna Segal
A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Segal establishes herself as one of the most productive and sensitive clinical psychoanalysts in the field today. Using techniques based on the work of both Freud and Klein, she shows a consistent interest in working with patients presenting the most severe type of psychopathology, as is evident in this volume of her clinical and theoretical papers.
Sinning in the Hebrew Bible
How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Stories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Hebrew Bible, and their interpretation helps societies form their religious and moral beliefs. From the sacrifice of Isaac to the adultery of David, narratives of sin engender vivid analysis and debate, powering the myths...
Joseph's Bones
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
“A work of stunning originality . . . Nothing quite like it has appeared in years.”—Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Segal offers a fresh and vigorous reexamination of the oldest part of the Bible.
What if we knew nothing about Judaism...