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The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world
David Eagleman · Catapult
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman teams up with composer Anthony Brandt in this powerful, wide-ranging exploration of human creativity. Together, they incisively explore how individuals, organizations, and educational institutions can benefit... |
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The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community
Mark D White · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback
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This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, technology, economics, philosophy, politics, and law, White explains how and why the individual... |
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,... |
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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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Taste
Giorgio Agamben · Seagull Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Our taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been... |
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The Science Behind a Happy Dog: Canine Training, Thinking and Behaviour
Emma K Grigg · 5m Publishing
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback
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How can you be sure that your dog is happy? What can owners do to ensure their dog has the best chance at a long, happy life? Experts in animal behavior, Emma Grigg and Tammy Donaldson, set out to explore our current understanding of canine well-being in this engaging and authoritative... |
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Mark Twain and Philosophy
Alan H Goldman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on humanity and American life, is best known for his classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's body of work, however, is expansive; from Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut... |
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On Color
DAVID FARTHING STEPHEN KASTAN · Yale University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most... |
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The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States
Claire D. Clark · Columbia University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1960s, as illegal drug use grew from a fringe issue to a pervasive public concern, a new industry arose to treat the addiction epidemic. Over the next five decades, the industry's leaders promised to rehabilitate the casualties of the drug culture even as incarceration rates... |
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Relax, It's Just Sex: Understanding Non-Possessive Intimate Relationships
Leslie Spurr · Praeger
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
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Surveying the many forms of non-possessive intimate relationships, this book explains how these alternative lifestyle arrangements work, psychologically, and describes the benefits and risks for those involved within contemporary contexts such as swinging, threesomes, polyamory, and recreational... |
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The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
Jennifer Ulrich · Abrams Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop... |
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