What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.
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Theodore Dalrymple's witty and thought-provoking essays explore the joys of intellectual engagement through literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, enriched by personal anecdotes from his time as a prison doctor and psychiatrist.
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Small Beginnings

1 Suburban Son

2 Artful Sincerity

3 Enemy of the People

4 The Glow of Angels

5 Mrs Buggins

6 How to Be Colour Blind

7 But Is It Safe?

8 Good People and Stuff

9 Free Hands

10 Pools Full of Water

11 Glaring Light

12 A White Van

13 The Present State

14 Scaling the Revolution

15 Discounted Souls

16 Carting Harlots

17 The Fight Against Absurdity

18 Darling Passions

19 Comic Dictators

20 Positive Thinking

21 Bohemians & Foreigners

22 Dirty Words

23 Stealing Time

24 An Overdose of Growing Up

25 Arsenic and Raspberries

26 Heaven and Hell

27 Scalp Hunting

28 False Economies

29 Hair-Combing Pedants

30 Magical Thinking

31 Self-Satisfaction

32 Self-Improvement

33 Room Furnishing

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781908096647
Publisert
2025-05-22
Utgiver
Gibson Square Books Ltd; Gibson Square Books Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

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Theodore Dalrymple spent the first part of his career as doctor in deprived parts of Africa and South America. When he returned to England he joined the Prison Service as a GP and psychiatrist in London's East End and later inner-city Birmingham. He is a regular contributor to, among others, The Times, the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, British Medical Journal, the Australian and he has a column in The Oldie and City Journal.