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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Jane Juska · Villard; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might be called “easy.” It’s a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then that’s... |
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The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby · Pantheon Books
Pages: 356
Format: Print book
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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape... |
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Pages: 745
Format: Hardcover
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually... |
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Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story
Jodee Blanco · Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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While other children were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was trying to figure out how to go from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls.This powerful, unforgettable memoir chronicles how one child was shunnedand... |
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Overcoming the Fear of Fear: How to Reduce Anxiety Sensitivity
Steven Taylor · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Anxiety isn't all in your head. When you feel nervous, symptoms such as chills, sweating, heart palpitations, and shaking can affect your whole body. If you worry that others notice these anxiety symptoms or fear that they could be harmful to your health, you may have anxiety sensitivity.... |
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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 Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Oliver Burkeman · Faber & Faber; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy.... |
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Custer's Road to Disaster: The Path to Little Bighorn
Kevin M. Sullivan · TwoDot; First edition
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform. His dramatic rise during the Civil War to the brevet rank of brigadier general at twenty-three, and his uncanny... |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Publishing; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This new edition of the American Psychiatric Association s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects... |
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