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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer · Farrar
Pages: 310
Format: Print book |
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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Man, Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It
Philip Zimbardo · Conari Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called "The Demise of Guys," which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book... |
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Democracy: A Life
Paul Cartledge · Oxford University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker--from Plato and Aristotle onwards--were ambivalent or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship... |
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Fake Missed Connections
Brett Fletcher Lauer · Soft Skull Press, 2016.
Pages: 225
Format: Print book |
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Your wife is having an affair with my husband. It has caused some trouble in my marriage and I thought you should know.One phone call in December 2005 begins the compelling, unpredictable story of Fake Missed Connections. A child of divorce with an already fragile sense of trust, Lauer... |
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What We Gain As We Grow Older: On Gelassenheit
Wilhelm Schmid · Upper West Side Philosophers
Pages: 140
Format: Print book |
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Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given - growing older; turning our society's anti-aging bias into a true art of aging that will enable us to live with rather than against the inevitable. In ten practical steps, this book teaches... |
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On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to the Transfigurements of John Sallis
Jason M Wirth · Northwestern University Press
Pages: 221
Format: Print book |
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On the True Sense of Art collects essays by philosophers responding to John Sallis's Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art as well as his other works on the philosophy of art, including Force of Imagination and Logic of Imagination. Each of the chapters, by some of the leading... |
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Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self
Robert V Levine · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In Stranger in the Mirror, Robert Levine offers a provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and psychological entity we call our self. Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else? Are we all multiple... |
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