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Decomposition: A Music Manifesto
Andrew Durkin · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls · Crown
Pages: 405
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories... |
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Adam Alter · Penguin Press
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling... |
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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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Promise Land: My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“In writing this book I walked on hot coals, met a man making a weight-loss robot, joined a Healing Circle, and faced my debilitating fear of flying. Of all of these things, talking to my father about my mother’s death was by far the hardest.” The daughter of a widowed... |
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Great Dialogues of Plato
Plato · Signet
Format: Paperback
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Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love., |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before... |
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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
Deborah Serani · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 544
Format: Print book
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The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer... |
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Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
Leah Vincent · Nan A. Talese
Format: Book
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In the vein of Prozac Nation and Girl, Interrupted, an electrifying memoir about a young woman's promiscuous and self-destructive spiral after being cast out of her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family Leah Vincent was born into the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox... |
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A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
Bill Mesler · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 312
Format: Print book
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The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life's biggest mystery: How did it begin?How did life begin?It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's... |
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