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Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals
Joel E Dimsdale · Yale University Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book |
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When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests,... |
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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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The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
Virginia Postrel · Simon & Schuster; 10.6.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations, critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz, revealing what qualities make a person, an object, a setting, or an experience glamorous.What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desire—the... |
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy
David C Spencer · Oxford University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy aims to provide clear and reliable information about epilepsy, including "what" (definition) , "how" (pathophysiology) , "who" (epidemiology) , and "why" (etiology) . The volume guides the reader through current... |
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Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Dinah Miller · John Hopkins University Press
Pages: 298
Format: Print book |
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Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side, there are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don't acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms can render people dangerous to themselves or others.... |
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Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays
Benjamin Fondane · New York Review Books
Pages: 118
Format: Print book |
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Benjamin Fondane - who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz - was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every... |
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Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Cass R Sunstein · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 267
Format: Book |
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The most controversial essays from the bestselling author once called the most dangerous man in America collected for the first time.From Cass R. Sunstein, bestselling author of "Nudge "and "Simpler," comes a collection of thought-provoking essays that have sparked a powder... |
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Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Pagan Kennedy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 270
Format: Print book |
Find out where great ideas come from.
A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying... |
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The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Daniel M Wegner · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds - including your own.
Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind... |
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Trash Talks: Revelations in the Rubbish
Elizabeth V. Spelman · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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A lively investigation of the intimate connections we maintain with the things we toss away It's hard to think of trash as anything but a growing menace. Our communities face crises over what to do with the mountains of rubbish we produce, the enormous amount of biological waste generated... |
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I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
David Shields · Knopf
Format: Hardcover |
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"An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls) . David Shields always wanted... |
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