Robert's Books in Riga

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  Robert's Books 4:47 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by John Southworth. http://bit.ly/XSGks

  Biography insists that Shakespeare has to be understood first as an actor-director, in order to understand him as a playwright.—Robert
   
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  Robert's Books 4:37 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by Arthur Conan Doyle. http://bit.ly/3tsKtg

  All 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island.—Amazon.com
   
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  Robert's Books 4:33 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by Sigmund Freud, edited by Peter Gay. http://bit.ly/KykLP

  This single-volume work includes some 50 of Freud’s texts, organized chronologically with headnotes. The selections range from case studies and theoretical discussions about dreams, anxiety, and anal eroticism to essays on lay analysis and religion as humankind’s obsessional neurosis.—Library Journal
   
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  Robert's Books 1:00 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by Paul Josephson. http://bit.ly/BM6vW

  This volume on Soviet and Nazi science is intended for non-specialists and students who want to know more about the relationship between science and political ideology.—H-Net
   
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  Robert's Books 12:56 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by Machiavelli. http://bit.ly/4aZ0Hb
   
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  Robert's Books 12:55 pm on 30 June 2009 Permalink  

  by Sheila Fitzpatrick. http://bit.ly/2GWLkT

  One of the most influential historians of the Soviet period describes what it was like to live under Stalin in the 1930s—the frantic, heroic, tragic decade of collectivization, forced-draft industrialization, and purges.—Foreign Affairs