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Something for the Weekend: Life in the Chemsex Underworld
JAMES WHARTON · Biteback Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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When James Wharton leaves the army, he finds himself with a husband, two dogs, two cars, and a nice house in the country. A year later he finds himself single, living in a room and trying to adjust to single gay life back in the capital. He ventures into London's gay drug culture, soon... |
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Marx
Terrell Carver · Polity
Pages: 222
Format: eBook
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Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them within concepts that remain topical... |
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Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Mackenzie Phillips · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery... |
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Rebuilding Your Life after Stroke: Positive Steps to Wellbeing
Reg Morris · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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The physical effects of a stroke are often the most obvious, and hospitals can offer medication and therapy to help alleviate them. However, the psychological consequences of having a stroke, such as memory problems or depression are often ignored. Includes the voices of stroke survivors... |
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Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy
Bonnie St John · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day--every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus... |
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The Art of C. G. Jung
The Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A lavishly illustrated volume of C.G. Jung's visual work, from drawing to painting to sculpture.A world-renowned, founding figure in analytical psychology, and one of the twentieth century's most vibrant thinkers, C.G. Jung imbued as much inspiration, passion, and precision in what... |
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We: Reviving Social Hope
Ronald Aronson · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society's profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for stunning insurgencies at opposite ends... |
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Westworld and Philosophy
James B South · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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"We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part,... |
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Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene
Giovanni Aloi · Columbia University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
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Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices... |
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90 Days to Live: Beating Cancer When Modern Medicine Offers No Hope
Rodney Stamps · Attacking Cancer, LLC
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
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Chemo and radiation didn't beat your cancer? This book might...After being told by his doctor he had 90 days to live, Rodney Stamps and his wife Paige embarked on a search for an alternative to chemo and radiation. This heart-wrenching and heartwarming book chronicles Rodney's triumphant... |
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The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
Meredith Maran · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a "lusty, kickass*" post-divorce memoir, one woman's story of starting over at 60 - in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood.After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life's savings, and the collapse... |
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The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
Sally Kohn · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate - with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating - popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it. As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN,... |
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Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
Jim Miller · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s... |
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