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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
Carolyn Purnell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem... |
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Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy
Mark Regnerus - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation,... |
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On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Lee McIntyre - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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A powerful, pocket-sized citizen's guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier.. The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't... |
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The Imagination Muscle
Albert Read - Constable
Format: Hardcover
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Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON. 'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone - should read this book' EDWARD ENNINFUL. 'An extraordinary book - an elaborate cabinet... |
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Your Brain on Plants: The Authoritative Guide to Herbs for Mood and Mind
Nicolette Perry - The Experiment
Format: Paperback
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By expert authors in both medicinal herbs and neuroscience - an unprecedented, highly informative, plant-by-plant guide to improving mind, mood, and memoryThe importance of mental and physical health, separately and together, is rising in the consciousness of Western and alternative medicine,... |
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
James D. Stein - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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If we were to judge humanity's greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthroughs in the history of science - as well as the scientists behind him - from the ancient... |
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The Nest in the Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain
Michael Kearney - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
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A concise and inspirational book for anyone dealing with chronic or acute pain by a long time palliative care doctor who is greatly inspired by Native American wisdom and the natural world. This book is a celebration of impermanence and what it means to be awake, alive, and connected to the world.The... |
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Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals
Lara Denis - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy. In it, he presents the basic concepts and principles of right and virtue and the system of duties of human beings as such. The work comprises two parts: the Doctrine of Right concerns outer freedom and the rights... |
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"Pure O" OCD: Letting Go of Obsessive Thoughts with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Chad LeJeune - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback
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Let go of the struggle and obsess less. With this unique guide, you'll find the tools you need to get unstuck from obsessive thoughts, overcome fears, feel more grounded, and live a life that truly reflects your values.Pure obsessional obsessive-compulsive disorder, or "Pure O"... |
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