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The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality,... |
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt · W.W. Norton
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · Wordsworth Reference
Pages: 724
Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions... |
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind." -- Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question,... |
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Afraid to Let Go. For Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics
Mary Crocker Cook · Robertson Publishing
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback
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You are not Codependent simply because your adult child is an addict or alcoholic. All parents of addicted children of any age are terrified, confused, feel out of control, lose sleep, dread the phone calls at 3:00 in the morning. This book is for parents who are Afraid to Let Go because... |
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
Michael Krasny · New World Library
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge... |
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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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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey... |
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Purposeful Retirement: The Baby Boomers' Guide to a New Level of Happiness
Hyrum W. Smith · Mango
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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You've had a successful life and career by almost all measures. Now, you're retiring. You are definitely not a couch potato and need something meaningful and inspiring for your second act. Is there a way to make intelligent choices? Can you learn from the lives and experiences of people... |
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · Penguin Books
Pages: 832
Format: Paperback
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"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this - the most inspiring book I've ever read." - Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not,... |
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