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Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea
David Wilson · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927.... |
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The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children
JEAN KAZEZ · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming parents draws us into philosophical quandaries before our children have even been born. Why do most of us want to have children? Should we make new people, despite life's travails and our crowded world? Is adoptive parenthood just the same as biological parenthood? Once children... |
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Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS · Counterpoint
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A work of splendid richness and depth." -- Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look Anesthetize: to render insensible First there's the injection, then the countdown -- and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness... |
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The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973
Mark Greif · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the nature of man. But the dawning age of the crisis of man, as Mark Greif calls it, was far more... |
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Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception
Bence Nanay · Oxford University Press
Pages: 214
Format: Print book
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Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make... |
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How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
Marcus Tullius Cicero · Princeton University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often floundering or failing as a result--we'd... |
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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
Stephan M D Guyenet · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become... |
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The Ruler's Guide: China's Greatest Emperor and His Timeless Secrets of Success
Chinghua Tang · Scribner
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China's greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598-649 AD) which will show anyone who leads or manages how to achieve unparalleled results and an enduring legacy.Tang Taizong... |
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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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A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging: Coping with Change
H Michael Zal · Lexington Books
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father's way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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If I Were a Suicide Bomber
Thom Satterlee · Open Letter
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
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"Smart, impish, and spare, Per Aage Brandt finds the physical in the metaphysical, and the fizz in the physiological." -- Joanna TrzeciakA cognitive scientist by trade, Per Aage Brandt's poems resemble little puzzle boxes -- all quite short with lines of almost identical length.... |
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