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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Joel Gold · Free Press, 2015. ©2014 Pages: 321 Format: Print book
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A "clear, witty, and engaging" (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An "intellectual landmark" (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada) .The current view of delusions - the strange beliefs held by people... |
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Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
Catrine Clay · Harper Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict... |
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
HECTOR GARCIA · Penguin Books Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." - Japanese proverb According... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich · Knopf Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,... |
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · Basic Books Pages: 310 Format: Print book
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For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 280 Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
John A Bargh · Touchstone Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John... |
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN · Algonquin Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive. Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years,... |
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