This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, it uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking as well. The volume draws from the fields of archaeology and neuropsychology, which traditionally have shared little in the way of theories and methods, even though both disciplines provide crucial pieces to the puzzle of the emergence and evolution of human cognition. The twelve essays,...

Cette edition donnera au lecteur l'occasion de decouvrir le theatre erotique du XVIIIe siecle, facette meconnue de la theatromanie de l'epoque. Les textes, extremement rares, reunis dans ce volume paraissent ici pour la premiere fois depuis plus de 250 ans. Ecrit dans les annees 1770 par Delisle de Sales pour un theatre princier, le 'Theatre d'amour' est un recueil de comedies mettant en scene les ebats amoureux de personnages mythologiques et historiques, tels que Junon et Ganymede, Cesar et deux Vestales, et Abailard et Heloise. Cette uvre insolite, qui n'existe qu'en un seul manuscrit,...

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking, and influential novel

This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of...