Dorothy Rowe Books

Dorothy Rowe shows us how to have the courage to acknowledge and face our fears - only through courage can we find a sustaining happiness.

Dorothy Rowe shows us how to live more comfortably and creatively within ourselves by achieving a fuller understanding of how we experience our existence and how we perceive the threat of its annihilation.

Depression is the experience of a terrible isolation, of being alone in a prison. But by understanding how we build the prison of depression we can dismantle it for ever. Dorothy Rowe gives us a way of understanding depression, allowing us to take charge of our lives. She shows it is not an illness requiring drugs but a defence we use to hold ourselves together when we feel our lives falling apart. This bestselling book, now in its second edition, contains the stories of people who have left the prison of depression and changed their lives for ever.

Talks about what it is to be and to have a sibling. This work helps us to recognise the various experiences involved in sibling relationships as a result of the fundamental drive for survival and validation, enabling us to reach a deeper understanding of our siblings and ourselves.

A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain's most admired writers on the human condition, which gives insights and comfort on some of the most difficult aspects of identity and self-esteem, fear, depression and unhappiness, coping with people, power, agreed, guilt and selfishness and getting older.

Why do we lie? Because we are frightened of being humiliated, being treated like an object, being rejected, losing control of things, and, most of all, we are frightened of uncertainty. Often we get our lies in before any of these things can happen. We lie to maintain our vanity. We lie when we call our fantasies the truth. Lying is much easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient it is. We lie to others, and, even worse, we lie to ourselves. In both private and public life, we damage ourselves with our lies, and we damage other people. Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are. Lies have played a major part in climate change and the global economic crisis. Fearing to change how they live, many people prefer to continue lying rather than acknowledge that we are facing a very uncertain but undoubtedly unpleasant future unless we learn how to prefer the truths of the real world in which we live rather than the comforting lies that ultimately betray us. We are capable of changing, but will we choose to do this?

In the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power. It affects us all, whether we're religious or not. This title separates the political from the personal, the power-seeking from the compassionate.

Exploring the existential threats to humanity, this sequel delves into the potential for societal transformation in the face of nuclear peril and environmental degradation. It poses critical questions about our capacity to foster a peaceful, cooperative society and eliminate adversarial relationships, ultimately seeking solutions to avert extinction. The book challenges readers to envision a sustainable future and consider the choices necessary for survival.

Berlin is examined as a complex sexual landscape, where femininity significantly influenced its portrayal from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Dorothy Rowe delves into the cultural dynamics that shaped perceptions of women in the city, especially following World War I. She highlights how fears surrounding women's liberation and rising prostitution transformed Berlin's image from one of allure to one marked by alienation and anxiety, revealing the intricate relationship between gender, sexuality, and urban identity during this tumultuous period.

Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety.