In the essay ""The Psychopathic Racial Personality,"" Dr. Bobby Wright contends that viewing white behavior towards nonwhites as psychopathic provides a new lens through which to analyze and combat the actions and aims of Europeans

Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality.

Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.

This essential textbook examines what personality traits are, how they influence human behaviour and the applications of personality assessment.

Covering a range of figures - from Norman Podhoretz to Leon Kass, from Robert H. Bork to James Q. Wilson - this study examines Kristol's ideas and contributions to American life as one of the nation's leading neoconservatives. Passages and epigrams from Kristol are documented.

The best guide yet to the practical aims and consequences of Reaganomics.--Philadelphia Enquirer