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The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science
Cretien van van Campen · The MIT Press; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed... |
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Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them
Betsy Prioleau · W. W. Norton & Company; first edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Swoon is a glittering pageant of charismatic ladies' men from Casanova to Lord Byron to Camus to Ashton Kutcher. It challenges every preconceived idea about great lovers and answers one of history's most vexing questions: what do women want? Contrary to popular myth and dogma, the men who consistently... |
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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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Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik
Cathleen Miller · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the worlds foremost advocate for womens health... |
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
Sarah Wise · Counterpoint; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical... |
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer MD · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Expert advice from the medical director of the countrys largest state mental health system and the mental health editor of The Huffington Post. More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level.... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband - the father of her infant daughter,... |
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Simpler: The Future of Government
Cass R. Sunstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Simpler government arrived four years ago It helped put money in your pocket It saved hours of your time It improved your childrens diet lengthened your life span and benefited businesses large and small It did so by issuing fewer regulations by insisting on smarter regulations and by eliminating... |
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The Roman Search for Wisdom
Michael K Kellogg · Prometheus Books, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authorsThough Rome conquered much of the world and established an empire that lasted more than a millennium, its citizens sometimes expressed a sense of inferiority to the intellectual... |
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