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Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
SLAVOJ ZIZEK · Verso
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin's thought is still important todayLenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Žižek argues in this new study and collection... |
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
Lux Alptraum · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying--why myths about women's deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy.... |
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Of Silence and Song
Dan Beachy-Quick · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Midway through the journey of his life, Dan Beachy-Quick found himself without a path, unsure how to live well. Of Silence and Song follows him on his resulting classical search for meaning in the world and in his particular, quiet life. In essays, fragments, marginalia, images, travel... |
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Panic Free: The 10-Day Program to End Panic, Anxiety, and Claustrophobia
Tom Bunn · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Panic, and its close cousins anxiety and claustrophobia, have long been a problem without a reliable solution. In most cases, the estimated six million Americans who suffer with a panic disorder receive only marginal relief from psychotherapy (usually Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) , medication,... |
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Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Lisa Congdon · Chronicle Books
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
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An artist's unique voice is their calling card. It's what makes each of their works vital and particular. But developing such singular artistry requires effort and persistence. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON · Harvard University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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Paths to Fulfillment: Women's Search for Meaning and Identity
Ruthellen Josselson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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How do women create fulfilling lives? How does the identity they choose (or not choose) by the end of their college career affect how their lives unfold? For 35 years, Ruthellen Josselson has followed 25 randomly selected women who graduated from college in the early 1970s. Because these... |
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Literary Theory For Beginners
Mary Klages · For Beginners
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
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Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren't really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here's the book you need to sort it all out -- and enjoy doing so!In Literary Theory... |
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On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying "No" to Power
Erich Fromm · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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"Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience." - from On DisobedienceIn On Disobedience, Erich Fromm writes that the authoritarian dictatorships of the 20th century produced an "organization man"... |
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Jet Lag
Christopher J Lee · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against... |
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The One-Week Insomnia Cure: Learn to Solve Your Sleep Problems
Jason Ellis · Random House UK
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
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With over a decade of pioneering research and clinical practice in sleep disorder management, the author of The One-Week Insomnia Cure provides a fast and long-lasting approach to identifying and managing insomnia and other sleep disorders. To maximize treatment success and prevent... |
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