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Along the way, Welsh shows how Freud's arbitrary turnings are themselves wishful, intended to persuade by pleasing the reader and author alike; that his interest in secrets and his self-proclaimed modest ambition are products of their time; and that the book may best be read as a romance or serial comedy. \"Some of the humor throughout,\" Welsh notes, \"can only be understood as a particular kind of fine performance.\" Welsh offers the first critical overview of the argument in Freud's masterpiece and of the author who presents himself as guide.</p>", "author": "Alexander Welsh", "slug": "freuds-wishful-dream-book-200922-9781400821365-alexander-welsh", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781400821365.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "200922", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/200922/freuds-wishful-dream-book-200922-9781400821365-alexander-welsh", "bisac_codes": [ "PSY015000", "JM" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780691037189", "EISBN13": "9781400821365", "EISBN10": "1400821363" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010030538579" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000200921", "attributes": { "name": "Strong Managers, Weak Owners", "subtitle": "The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance", "description": "<p>In this major reinterpretation of the evolution of the American corporation, Mark Roe convincingly demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U.S. firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. 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Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed.<br><br><br> The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. 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