It has a well-deserved place of honor in my own nursing literature collection
from the Cakewalk dance craze and the music's significance as a harbinger of cultural recovery after World War II to its place within French ethnography and cultural hybridity
a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic
" --Abbas J
To Double Business Bound Laurentiu G. Maxim It has a well-deserved placeAn individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: ''The historical mutilation of mimesis was no mere oversight, no