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Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body
Alexandra Jamieson - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A holistic health counselor and co-star of award-winning documentary Super Size Me explores women's cravings - for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, inspiration - and teaches them to listen to their bodies for a healthier, fuller life.Transformational health expert Alexandra... |
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
Matthew B. Crawford - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as SoulcraftIn his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment.... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
STEPHEN HINSHAW - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."A deeply... |
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How to Fix a Broken Heart (TED Books)
Dr Guy Winch - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine if we treated broken hearts with the same respect and concern we have for broken arms? Psychologist Guy Winch urges us to rethink the way we deal with emotional pain, offering warm, wise, and witty advice for the broken-hearted.Real heartbreak is unmistakable. We think of nothing... |
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Meg Jay - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal": those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.Whether it is bullying, the loss of a parent to divorce or death, an alcoholic or mentally... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty... |
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's... |
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F*ck Love: One Shrink's Sensible Advice for Finding a Lasting Relationship
Michael M D Bennett - Touchstone
Format: Print book
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From the brilliant New York Times bestselling authors of the "refreshingly blunt" (Harper's Bazaar) F*ck Feelings - this seriously irreverent roadmap reveals the essentials to look for when you're done being suckered by the promise of true love and want... |
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The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Jill Filipovic - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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What do women want? It's a time-old question, but if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you discover that what they want is happiness. Despite what recent books, articles, or tv shows would have you believe, real women are less concerned... |
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement... |
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem... |
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How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
Sudhir Hazareesingh - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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Why are the French such an exceptional nation Why do they think they are so exceptional The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture have decisively shaped the values and ideals of the modern world. French ideas are no less distinct in their form: while French thought... |
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The Gift of Fear : Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker - Little Brown
Format: Hardcover
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A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specter of violence. But according to Gavin de Becker, everyone can feel safer, act safer, be safer -- if they learn... |
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years... |
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Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
Margaret J Meeker - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys-rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character.... |
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
Martha Craven Nussbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
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The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Lissa Rankin - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Not many people in the medical world are talking about how being afraid can make us sick - but the truth is that fear, left untreated, becomes a serious risk factor for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Now Lissa Rankin, M.D., explains why we need to heal ourselves from... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, The Philosophy Book explores the history and concepts of philosophy, and demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter.Are the ideas of Ren Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes still relevant today The Philosophy Book unpacks the writings... |
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Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality
Brian Little - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture - but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call... |
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
DANIEL COYLE - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your... |
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Breathe, Mama, Breathe: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Busy Moms
Shonda Moralis - The Experiment
Format: Print book
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A "Mom Must-Read" - Parents Easy-to-follow practices that will help moms find quick, daily opportunities to reset and refocus with mindfulness Moms can feel as if they are sprinting through life, crashing onto the pillow at day's end only to start again the next morning.... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Jeffrey A. Lieberman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping... |
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and... |
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone - The Experiment
Format: Paperback
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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering... |
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Bonaparte: 1769-1802
Steven Rendall - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period the life of Napoleon himself, the man whoin Madame de Stals wordsmade... |
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The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
Matthew Pollard - Amacom
Format: Paperback
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An introvert? Great at sales? YES. Sales is a skill anyone can learn and master--and introverts are especially good at it once they learn how to leverage their natural strengths. Introverts aren't comfortable with traditional tactics like aggressively pushing a product or talking over... |
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Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Heather Lende - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words:... |
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Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous
Marlene Wagman-Geller - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Paperback
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Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory? Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked, wives and companions... |
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Milton Rokeach - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback
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On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward... |
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The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman - Basic Books; Revised Edition edition
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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on or whether to push pull or slide a door The fault argues this ingeniouseven liberatingbook lies not in ourselves but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles... |
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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Susan Peirce Thompson - Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by John Robbins, author of the international bestseller DIET FOR A NEW AMERICAIn this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge... |
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician
Michael Ellis - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact... |
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
Malene Rydahl - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year... |
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The Sociopath Next Door
Martha Stout - Broadway Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just... |
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The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. - DK
Format: Paperback
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Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas with straightforward text, witty illustrations, and vocabulary glossary that demystify an often daunting subject matter. Now in paperback.The Psychology Book looks at the biggest... |
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Modern Library
Format: Book
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Introduction by Peter GayTranslated and edited by Walter Kaufmann Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete... |
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
Ariel Leve - Harper
Format: Print book
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A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences... |
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.'... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories... |
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The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry
Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Ready-to-use strategies to tame even your most anxiety-inducing moments. Suffer from a fear of flying? Break out in a sweat during presentations? Experience a sudden panic attack when in a confined space, like an elevator? Whether you're struggling with mild anxiety or battling more... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book
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A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life.... |
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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I'm OK--You're OK
Thomas Harris - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Transactional Analysis delineates three observable ego-states Parent, Adult, and Child as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. Happy childhood notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the Not ok feelings of a defenseless child, dependent on ok others... |
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Better: The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living
Nicole Caldwell - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Intellectual arguments alone will not sway the dominant paradigm; to be motivated to create change, people must be moved. Art has the power to inform, influence, and inspire. The creative impulse can, quite literally, change the world.Better explores the intersection of sustainability and art,... |
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Dr. Ronald Epstein M.D. - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.. As a third-year Harvard Medical... |
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are
Zoe Fraade-Blanar - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy... |
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The Wild Oats Project: One Woman's Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost
Robin Rinaldi - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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What if for just one year you let desire call the shots?The project was simple Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four,... |
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I Think Youre Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
David Shields - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included.. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (hes a stay-at-home dad to three young girls) , whereas his former professor David Shields... |
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
Ludwig von Bertalanffy - George Braziller Inc.
Format: Paperback
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The classic book on a major modern theory Bertalanffy's selected writings on his theory of laws applicable to virtually every scientific field. This conceptual approach has had a profound impact on biology, economics, psychology, and demography, with new relevancies today. The new foreword... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important... |
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Sharon Begley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior - using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion.Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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The Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Dover Publ.
Format: Paperback
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Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history" a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident... |
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Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
Jennifer Jacquet - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. But while guilt holds individuals to personal... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes PhD - The Guilford Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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When you are showered with attention, it can feel incredibly romantic and can blind you to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when attentiveness becomes domination? In some relationships, the desire to control leads to jealousy, threats, micromanaging--even physical violence. If you or someone... |
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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries... |
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Girl Trouble: An Illustrated Memoir
Kerry Cohen - Hawthorne Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling memoirist and psychotherapist Kerry Cohen ("Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity") explores complicated female friendships in "Girl Trouble. " Beginning with her relationship with her sister Tyler Cohen, who illustrates the memoir, Kerry examines the many... |
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek - Portfolio
Format: Paperback
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Finally in paperback: the New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150 million... |
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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
Diana Athill - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End.What will you remember if you live to be 100?Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End,... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
Daniel Goleman - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel... |
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Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
Dennis Greenberger PhD - Guilford Publications
Format: Paperback
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Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,000,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments.... |
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Revised and Expanded Edition
Walter Arnold Kaufmann - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann. |
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx - Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithWorld-changing ideas meet eye-catching design the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smiths distinctive, award-winning... |
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
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Bald Is Better with Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
Andrea Hutton - Harper Wave
Format: Paperback
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The breast cancer guide every woman needs for herself, her best friend, and her sister - a warm, practical, relatable handbook, that dispels the terror, taking you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite - Plume
Format: Hardcover
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**An International Bestseller**"Like Big Little Lies, A Beautiful Terrible Thing is a startling reminder that fairy tales aren't real. A master class in suspenseful storytelling, Jen Waite recounts the lies, betrayals, and infidelity she endured with unrestrained... |
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