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List created by Tawny J. on Oct 21, 2023
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Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River is the first novel written by author Joseph Conrad. Taking place in the late 19th century, Almayer's Folly is about a Dutch trader by the name of Kaspar Almayer and the events which lead to his life in the Borneo jungles. Almayer's Folly is highly... more
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation.... more
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A novella, The Old Man and Sea tells the story of an old fisherman, Santiago, and his long lusty struggle isn't so much over one fish, but the act of living -- living fully, actively, robustly.
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The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
Three shots -- Indian camp -- The doctor and the doctor's wife -- Ten Indians... more
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The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of the Years (A Harvest/HBJ book) by Virginia ...
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Monday or Tuesday : Eight Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Virginia Woolf
From one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century—a splendid collection displaying the author’s lively imagination and delicate style. Includes "A Haunted House," "A Society," "An Unwritten Novel," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the... more
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Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Ham...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through... more
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Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life by Francesca Gino
Do you want to follow a script ? or write your own story? �Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why the most successful among us break the rules, and how rebellion brings joy and meaning into our lives.�Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as... more
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Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan by Fran...
You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick�and you finally reach... more
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Existence (The Master Work Series) by Rollo May
Since its publication, Existence has been regarded as the most important, complete, and lucid account of the existentialist approach to psychology. From the works of the leading spokesmen of the existential analytic movement, the editors have selected classic case histories and other writings to... more
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On Suicide With Particular Reference to Suicide Among Young Students by Paul Friedman
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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud ( 24 Volume...
The Standard Edition of the complete works of the father of psychoanalysis – the only definitive paperback edition on the market. Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey; in collaboration with Anna Freud; assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson.
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The Ego and the Id (Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund F...
The Ego & the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego & the outside world.
Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime,... more
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Clues to Suicide, An Investigation by Edwin S. Shneidman & Norman L. Farberow
Forward written by Karl A. Menninger, M.D.
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Every minute someone in the United States either kills himself or attempts suicide. Sixty to seventy time a day the attempt succeeds. Why do so many seem to despair? Who are these people? Could anything have been done to save them? ... more
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Kavanagh by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A classic of American literature from one of the nation's first masters, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ". . . We walk through the streets of the village with a friend who is giving, as we go along, a sketch of the touching drama . . . Kavanagh is, as far as it goes, an exact daguerreotype of New... more
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Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons
With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire?s darkest hollows?those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of... more
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Complete Concordance to Shakespeare by Mary Cowden Clarke & William Shakespeare
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson & Thomas H. Johnson (Edi...
This volume, containing all of Emily Dickinson's lyrics, presents biographical data about the poet and information about previous collections of her works.
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Suicide and Insanity: A Physiological and Sociological Study by Samuel Alexander Kenn...
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The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is... more
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The Human Condition (Second Edition) by Hannah Arendt
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many... more
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Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud
"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but... more
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Reveries Of A Bachelor; Or, A Book Of The Heart by Donald G. Mitchell
REVERIES OF A BACHELOR OR A BOOK OF THE HEART BY IK MARVEL, WITH AN ETCHING BY PERCY MORAN. TO ONE AT HOME IN WHOM ARE MET SO MANY OF THE GRACES AND THE VIRTUES, OF WHICH AS BACHELOR I DREAMED
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Golden Legend by Henry W. Longfellow
1851. This wonderful book is a collection of Longfellow's poetical tales. It is gorgeously illustrated throughout. As with other works by Longfellow, The Golden Legend is written in his unrivaled style and grace, which makes it a joy to peruse.
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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
"The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."-Primo LeviThis never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in... more
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel by George V. Higgins
The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis LehaneGeorge V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of�Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony,... more
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani & William Weaver (Translator)
A great commercial success when first published -- and an Academy Award-winning film in 1970 -- Giorgio Bassani's wrenching story of Ferrara, Italy, and the aristocratic Finzi-Contini family during the dangerous days of the Fascist regime has become a modern classic.
As a middle-class... more
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The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by... more
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
On a blustery January day, a prostitute is arrested. In the midst of the 1866 gold rush on the coast of New Zealand, this might have gone unnoticed. But three notable events occur on that same day: a luckless drunk dies, a wealthy man vanishes, and a ship's captain of ill repute cancels all... more
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance (Vintage International) by Graham Swift
On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair... more
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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan ... or all fake?
Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist,... more
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."
In Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat... more
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Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New Am...
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The Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for... more
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Ranked 16 out of 100 on National Geographic Adventure's list of top 100 adventure books of all time Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked an old friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in... more
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The Last Survivor : Legacies of Dachau by Timothy Ryback
In The Last Survivor, journalist Timothy Ryback explores the surprising--and often disturbing--ways the citizens of Dachau go about their lives in a city the rest of us associate with gas chambers and mass graves. A grandmother recalls the echo of wooden shoes on cobblestone, the clip-clop of... more
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A Time of Gifts (Journey Across Europe, Bk 1) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich and sparkling account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron... more
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Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal
Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all.
Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's... more
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Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery & Lewis Galantiere (Translator)
The experiences and philosophy of a French airline pilot whose flying career began in 1926 and ended when his plane disappeared in 1944.
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World W...
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."
The target... more
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books : The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched... more
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This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson by George Frisbie Whicher
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Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson (L...
Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. Her frequent attention to pain and death, like her reclusive tendencies, has led many to dismiss her as "morbid." Biographers... more
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Emily Dickinson face to face;: Unpublished letters with notes and reminiscences by Ma...
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The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Co...
Perfect for the poetry fan who is short on time, The Emily Dickinson Reader offers Paul Legault?s ingenious and madcap one-line renderings of each of Dickinson?s 1,789 poems. Take that familiar chestnut, #314, a la Legault: �Hope is kind of like birds. In that I don?t have any.? Or the classic... more
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The Moon and the Bonfires (Penguin Modern Classics) by Cesare Pavese
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World...
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The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
Brilliant study of art, life and thought in France and the Netherlands during the 14th and 15th centuries explores the period’s splendor and simplicity; courtesy and cruelty; its idyllic vision of life; despair and mysticism; religious, artistic, and practical life; and much more. An... more
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The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser
Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustice, aided by his sidekick Talus and the timely intervention of his betrothed, the woman warrior Britomart. As allegory, Book Five figures forth ideal... more
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne & Charles M. C...
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with... more
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The Works of John Donne (Volume 1); With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne
The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the... more
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel by John Donne & Izaak Walton
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of... more
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Classics) by Joh...
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and... more
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The Duchess of Malfi (Arden Early Modern Drama) by John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess?s secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden... more
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Sanity in Bedlam: A Study of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy by Lawrence Babb
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford English Texts) by Robert Burton & Thomas C. Fau...
Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766126307. Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Partial Contents: Definition of Melancholy; Causes of Melancholy; Bad Diet; Passions and Perturbations of the Mind; Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the body;... more
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Robert Burton: Philosophaster (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol 103) by Ro...
An entertaining comedy replete with philosophy, alchemy, politics, and human nature from the author of the popular work: The Anatomy of Melancholy. Contents: Chronological Table; Philosophaster (original Latin with an English translation) Notes to Philosophaster; Facsimile of Burton's Autograph;... more
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre &...
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
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Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (?Existentialism Is a Humanism?) was to expound his philosophy as a form of ?existentialism,? a term... more
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America Day by Day by Simone De Beauvoir
Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four-month journey that took her from one coast of the United States to the other, and back again. Embraced by the Cond ... more
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The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir & H. M. Parshley (Translator & Editor)
"One day I wanted to explain myself to myself... And it struck me with a sort of suprise that the first thing I had to say was 'I am a woman.'"
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, originally published in France in 1949, this book explores every facet of a... more
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She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir & Simone de Beauvoir
Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Franoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine... more
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The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her --Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren --de Beauvoir dissects the... more
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
The autobiography of literary doyenne Simone de Beauvoir.
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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (Liberty Classics) by DAVID HUME
As part of the tried and true model of informal essay writing, Hume began publishing his Essays: Moral, Political and Literary in 1741. The majority of these finely honed treatises fall into three distinct areas: political theory, economic theory and aesthetic theory. Interestingly, Hume's was... more
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The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 19: With Sir Horace Mann...
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Mastery: The Keys to Long-Term Success and Fulfillment by George Leonard
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The Complete Writings of Joseph H. Pilates: Return to Life Through Contrology and You...
Edited by the authors of the best-selling The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning, this is the only edition of Joseph Pilates' writings authorized by the Pilates Studio in New York City. Includes Your Health and Return to Life Through Contrology, monographs originally published in 1934 and 1945... more
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Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology: Revised Edition for the 21st Century by J...
First published in 1945, Pilates Return to Life Through Contrology contains the authorized, legal, edited, and original Library of Congress version of Joseph H. Pilates and William J. Miller first complete fitness writings. It details the exercises, poses, and instructions fundamental to the... more
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Correspondances by Gustave Flaubert & Maxime Du Camp & Alfred Le Poittevin
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The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821: Vols. 1 and 2 by John Keats
For many years one of the most serious needs in the literary world has been for a definitive edition of the letters of Keats. Now one of the world's foremost Keats authorities, Hyder Edward Rollins of Harvard, has prepared a completely new edition of all the extant letters, with an... more
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Edward Young's "conjectures on Original Composition" by Edward Young
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: F. C. Stechert co., inc. Subjects: Language Arts
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of society.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Michael Hulse (Trans...
One of the world's first best-sellers, this tragic masterpiece attained an instant and lasting success upon its 1774 publication. A sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist, the tale addresses age-old questions—the meaning of love, of death, and the possibility of... more
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Goethe: His Life and Times by Richard Friedenthal
'The study of Goethe's life is a task that each generation must undertake anew'. Thus writes Richard Friedenthal, author of this rich biography of Johann Goethe. Spanning eight momentous decades of war, revolution, and social upheaval, Goethe's life reveals itself as one of conflict and dynamic... more
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Where's the Gift? Using Feedback to Work Smarter, Learn Faster and Avoid Disaster by ...
Why do only a few people truly excel? Some point to innate talent. Others suggest education. Research doesn't support either. In Where's The Gift? you'll discover the secret that few have learned: the ability to capitalize on feedback, in all its forms, will do more to drive success than IQ,... more
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Flying the Coop: Breaking Free of the Beliefs that Limit Our Potential and Rob Us of ...
Research has consistently shown that fewer than 20 percent of all employees are highly satisfied with their work. Where do you fall? Do you experience work as just another job. Or does your work significantly enhance the quality of your life?
Work is such a large part of our lives that we owe... more
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Where's the Gift? by Nigel Bristow
How to achieve phenomenal success by discovering the gift in all feedback
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The Corporate Culture Audit (FT) by Nigel Bristow & Sarah J. Sandberg
A successful business strategy involves assessing the current direction of the business and comparing that course to the direction required to succeed in a changing environment. The Business Strategy Audit provides you with the tools, information and commitment you need to evaluate your... more
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The Beyond Job Satisfaction Fieldbook by Nigel J.A. Bristow
What do you want from your career and work?* Fun and fulfillment?* Security and financial peace-of-mind?* Challenge and growth?* The opportunity to use your talents and do what you do best?* Opportunities to move up?* Great working relationships?* Appreciation and recognition?* The freedom to... more
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The Leadership Skills Audit (FT) by Nigel Bristow & Kathy Buckner & Joseph Fo...
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Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.
Includes an extended conversation with David Sedaris
In the... more
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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can... more
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Somehow: Thoughts on Love (Large Print) by Anne Lamott
“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.”
In Thoughts on Love , Lamott explores the... more
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Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the works of J.D. Salinger have been acclaimed for their humor, intensity, and their lack of phoniness. A collection of short fiction, Nine Stories contains works with those qualities that make Salinger such a well-loved author.
A... more
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves... more
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The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau
"I believe," Andr� Breton said, "in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality--in appearance so contradictory--in a sort of absolute reality, or surr�alit�." The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois... more
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology by Robert Motherwell & Bernard Karpel
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Dada: Art and Anti-Art (World of Art) by Hans Richter
"Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace," writes Hans Richter, who was associated with the movement from its early days. Here, through selections from key manifestos and other documents of the time, he records Dada's history, from its beginnings in... more
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Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Andre Breton
Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism
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LA Revolution Surrealiste, Numbers 1-12, 1924-1929 (Arno Series of Contemporary Art N...
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The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
An Absorbing Account of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages
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The Encyclopedia Of Witchcraft & Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil ...
This is the nicest, and best looking Tarot book.
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The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey
Called "The Black Pope" by many of his followers, Anton LaVey began the road to High Priesthood of the church of Satan when he was only 16 years old and an organ player in a carnival:
"On Saturday night I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the... more
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Literary Recollections by Maxime Du Camp
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Remington
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The Romantic Agony (Oxford Paperbacks) by Mario Praz
In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-century... more
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Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The A...
Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works--"Common Sense," "The American Crisis," "Rights of Man," "The Age of Reason," along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus & Matthew Ward (Translator)
Albert Camus’s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
Possessing... more
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy
A pairing of Tolstoy?s most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov.In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer... more
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The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library) by T.S. Eliot
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem... more
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert J. Lifton
In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion" -- specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, Robert Jay Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. Lifton sees this analysis as... more
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Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton & Diane Wood Middlebrook & Diana...
This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from representative early and last work, is an ideal introduction to a great American poet.
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The Origins of Totalitarianism : Introduction by Samantha Power by Hannah Arendt
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Jo Roettger: Wilson's World by Andrzej Wirth
Jo Röttger accompanied Robert Wilson the great man of theatre on a tumultuous global journey. From his Watermill Center, Long Island, his apartment in New York, alongside preparations and rehearsals from different productions in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin and Taiwan, during a visit to Athens,... more
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Zabawa. Satire in lustloser Zeit. by Slawomir Mrozek & Andrzej Wirth
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Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence (A Viking compass book) by D. H. Law...
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Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: Drawings by Ben Shahn by Berryman & John Berryman
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Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism by E. Wallis Budge
1923. A study of the time of the Amen and Aten cults in ancient Egypt. With hieroglyphic texts of hymns to Amen and Aten, translations and illustrations. Contents: Reign of Tutankhamen; Tutankhamen and the cult of Amen; Hymn to Amen and Aten; Cult of Aten, the God and Disk of the Sun, its... more
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The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You by Mike Wa...
The greatest threat we face is not robots replacing us, but our reluctance to reinvent ourselves.
We live in an age of wonder: cars that drive themselves, devices that anticipate our needs, and robots capable of everything from advanced manufacturing to complex surgery. Automation, algorithms,... more
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Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic (Capstone Classics) by Seneca & Donald ...
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Read...
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How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management (Ancient Wisdom for Moder...
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay ?On Anger? (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC?65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: ?No plague has cost the human race more... more
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On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca
Seneca wrote his 20-sections On the Shortness of Life in 49 CE, the year he returned to Rome from his exile in Corsica, as a moral essay addressed to his friend Paulinus.
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak & Richard Pevear (Translator) & Larissa Vol...
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original.
Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves... more
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a... more
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Wie herrlich leuchtet die Natur. Gedichte und Bilder. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe &...
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The Influence of the Mind On the Body by Paul Dubois & L B. Gallatin
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally... more
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The psychology of dementia praecox (Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks) by C. G Jung
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. This work is the fruit of three years' experimental labor and clinical observation. In view of the difficulty and magnitude of the material, my work cannot and will not lay any claims either to perfection of treatment or to perfect certainty of conclusions and statements; on... more
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Psychology of Dementia Praecox (Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs 3) by C. G. Jun...
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. This work is the fruit of three years' experimental labor and clinical observation. In view of the difficulty and magnitude of the material, my work cannot and will not lay any claims either to perfection of treatment or to perfect certainty of conclusions and statements; on... more
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Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses. 3d Enl. Ed Authorized Translati...
Publisher: New York Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co Publication date: 1920 Subjects: Hysteria Neuroses Psychoanalysis Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this... more
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Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
Reflections on War and Death, by Sigmund Freud, is an essay Freud wrote during the Great War (World War I) in which he discusses the impact the war has had on how it has changed the way people view the world and death. The essay is not considered to be a part of Freuds major canon of work;... more
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Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (Freud, Sigmund, Works.) by Sigmund F...
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The Technology of Orgasm : "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction ...
From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries... more
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Unapologetic by Francis Spufford
"Unapologetic" is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and Christopher Hitchens' "God is Not Great". But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an... more
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
[Read by Karen Cass]
A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family.
Most people, including many policy-makers, activists,... more
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The Amazing Chess Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Amatzia Avni
The legendary Baron Munchausen was famous for telling incredible stories about his astounding happenings and astonishing feats. Munchausen was both a fearless, bold adventurer, and a fun, inspiring companion. Now, imagine the Baron playing chess!
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America and Americans by John Steinbeck
New York NY: Bonanza Books, 1966. Book and jacket in fine condition. Bookplate on ffep. A beautiful photodocumentary with text by Steinbeck. This is a 60's reprint of the original Viking edition.
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to Hist...
In the 1670s Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: one to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja, the other,... more
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck's controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. Intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral... more
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Journal of a Novel: The "East of Eden" Letters by John Steinbeck
This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of "East of Eden", his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters - provide an illuminating perspective on... more
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath...
This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's... more
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of ...
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John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Un...
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A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck and Capa?s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet... more
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John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962: The Wayward Bus / Bu...
John Steinbeck was never content to repeat himself, and his restless search for new forms and fresh subject matter is fully evident in the books of his later years. This volume collects four novels that exhibit the full range of his gift, along with a travel book that has become one of his most... more
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To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
As his father lies dying, Joseph Wayne decides to trade his Vermont farm for a new life in California. Once established on his ranch, he comes to revere a huge tree as the embodiment of his father's spirit. Joseph's brothers and their wives join him, and their farms prosper. Then one of the... more
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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we... more
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Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
"In September 1960, Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders along scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases."
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The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will... more
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Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld
The first authoritative biography of Wernher von Braun, chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich—creator of the infamous V-2 rocket—who became one of the fathers of the U.S. space program. In this meticulously researched and vividly written life, Michael J. Neufeld gives us a man of... more
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to Amer...
The explosive, dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.
In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that... more
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The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War (Stackpole Military History) b...
Explores the development of the V-2 rocket A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius Wernher von Braun is known to many as the brilliant pioneer of rocketry who left Germany after World War II to lead the United States' space program. Until now, few have realized the... more
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South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner by Murray Dubin
From mayors and mummers to tap dancers and gamblers, South Philly has it all. This quintessential Philadelphia neighborhood boasts a complicated history of ethnic strife alongside community solidarity and, for good measure, some of the best bakeries in town. Among its many famous people South... more
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Jewish Baltimore : A Family Album by Gilbert Sandler
From East Baltimore to Forest Park to Park Heights, from Nates and Leon's deli to Hutzler's department store, Jewish Baltimore tells stories of neighborhoods, people, and landmarks that have been important to Baltimore's Jewish experience. Gilbert Sandler, whose popular columns have appeared in... more
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The Way of Tarot: The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards by Alejandro Jodorowsky & Ma...
Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s insights into the Tarot as a spiritual path • Works with the original Marseille Tarot to reveal the roots of Western wisdom • Provides the key to the symbolic language of the Tarot’s “nomadic cathedral” • Transforms a... more
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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, this novel introduces two unforgettable characters: Grady Tripp, a former publishing prodigy now lost in a fog of pot and passion and stalled in the midst of his endless second book, and... more
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of... more
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The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Stika, a 'temporary' safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Irael. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in... more
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
Maps and Legends is an essay collection by American author Michael Chabon that was scheduled for official release on May 1, 2008, although some copies shipped two weeks early from various online bookstores. The book is Chabon's first book-length foray into nonfiction, with 16 essays, some... more
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: The Complete Original Edition (Simple Success Guides) ...
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Georgetown University professor and popular blogger Cal Newport reveals the new key to achieving success and true meaning in one's professional life.
In 2012, Cal Newport coined the term "deep work" on his popular blog, Study Hacks, and began exploring the methods and mindset that foster a deep... more
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
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The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious... more
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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Where does Christianity begin? In Athens, Jerusalem, or Rome? How did the early creeds of the church develop and differentiate? What was the impact of the Reformation and the Catholic Counterreformation? How have vital Christian communities emerged in Asia, Africa, and India since the 18th... more
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Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity
We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid... more
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The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheaval in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium before. The consequences of those shattering events are still felt today—from the stark divisions between (and within) Catholic and Protestant... more
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Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
A provocative history of the role of silence in Christianity by the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author
In this essential work of religious history, the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity explores the vital role of silence in the Christian story.
How should one... more
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The Boy King : Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The boy king Edward VI, the only surviving son of Henry VIII and the last of the male Tudors, died while still a teenager, his plans for his country's future soon to be overturned by his Roman Catholic half-sister Mary. Yet his reign has a significance in English history out of all proportion to... more
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Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
At a time when men and women were prepared to kill?and be killed?for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch?s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of... more
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Thomas Cranmer : A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
This prizewinning biography provides the definitive account of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII`s guide through three divorces, and ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. English Reformation scholar Diarmaid... more
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The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
92 b/w photographs Diarmaid MacCulloch illuminates the significance of Edward's turbulent and neglected reign. He takes a fresh look at the life and beliefs of the young king and of the ruthless politicians who jostled for power around him. He analyzes the single-minded strategy of the... more
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A Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which... more
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The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony by Rick Moody
Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage?an eventful month-by-month account?in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony
At this story?s start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and... more
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface... more
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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Garden of Cyrus: And, the Garden of Cyrus (Oxfo...
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Succes...
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken.�Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow.... more
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Fibonacci Ratios With Pattern Recognition by Larry Pesavento & Steven Shapiro
Quoted from Robert Miner's Dynamic Trading Analysis Report, Pesavento has been trading for 30 years. Today, he is primarily a day trader. His new book is well focused and organized. The bulk of the book describes a limited number of high probability patterns which coincide with clusters of Fib... more
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
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Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive by Bradley R. Staat...
Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet and... more
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Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Y...
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The Major Works : Religio Medici, Hydrotophia, The Garden Cyrus, Letter Friend chrn M...
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Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 8: Ligeia/Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe & Chri...
LIGEIA: In the shackles of an opium dream, a man struggles with the restless spirit of his deceased wife.ELEONORA: In the glory of young love, a valley blooms with life.
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Super Hero Single Dad: Unleash Your Super Powers & Become a Hero to Your Kids, Custom...
Super Hero Single Dad addresses the needs time-strapped dads have who yearn for the significance of being a super hero to their kids. The father?s of today?s generation are faced with the harsh reality of scarcer finanical resources, limited visitation and a dynamic social landscape that is... more
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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia & Bill Gifford
A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert. Wouldn’t you like to... more
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His Excellency Eug�ne Rougon (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'
His Excellency Eug�ne Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire... more
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The Dream: Le Reve by Emile Zola
Here in its first translation in over a century, The Dream is a poignant exploration of the impossibility of love in the face of social constraints. With a Foreword by Tim Parks.Abandoned as a young child, Angélique finds a new home with Hubert and Hubertine, who bring her up into a life of... more
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Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille) (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola & Brian Nelson (Tr...
Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of betrayals and depicts a veritable 'melting pot' of moral and... more
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The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur Des Dames) by Emile Zola
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes... more
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The Sin of Abbe Mouret (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola & Valerie Minogue ...
"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge Mouret, is an obsessively devout priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. A serious illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love... more
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A Love Story (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola & Helen Constantine (Transla...
Helene Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is attended by Dr Deberle, whose growing admiration for Helene gradually... more
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The Conquest Of Plassans (1900) by Emile Zola
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our... more
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The Belly of Paris (Modern Library Classics) by Emile Zola
Part of Emile Zola?s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil?s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make... more
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The Bright Side of Life (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola
Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who... more
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The Drinking Den (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola & Robin Buss (Translator)
Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice.
Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an... more
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The Beast Within (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola
A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master �mile Zola considered The Beast Within?also known as La B�te Humaine?to be his ?most finely worked? novel. This new translation finally captures his fast-paced yet deliberately... more
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Germinal (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Emile Zola
Introduction by F. W. J. Hemmings; Translation by Leonard Tancock
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Nana by Emile Zola
Her smile lit her red mouth and shined in her eyes of clearest blue . . . a delicate sense of enjoyment made her tilt her nose, the rosy nostrils of which lifted and fell -- while a bright flush suffused her cheeks. Paris clamored to see her -- "Nana, Nana!" they cried, to bring onstage the new... more
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The Earth : La Terre (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola & Douglas Parm�e (Translato...
When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three... more
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The Debacle : 1870-71 (The Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) concerns the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the best-selling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to... more
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Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
This final volume in Zola's twenty-book Rougon-Macquart cycle serves in many respects as an epilogue to the series -- but it's also a fine tale in its own right. Doctor Pascal, approaching old age, looks back on his life and finds himself asking whether he has made the right choices . . . and... more
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The Novels And Romances Of Alphonse Daudet: Sappho, Between The Flies And Footlights,...
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Complete Works of Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews; The Wars of the Jews Against Api...
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Sadism and Masochism: The Psychopathology of Sexual Cruelty (Solar Asylum) by Wilhelm...
First published in English in 1929, Sadism and Masochism remains one of the most important books of sexology, a masterwork of psychoanalysis documenting and defining the spectrum of fetishes and psychosexual disorders. The culmination of research by Wilhelm Stekel, a psychologist who was an... more
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The Depths of the Soul; Psycho-Analytic Studies by Wilhelm Stekel
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The Homosexual Neurosis (Classic Reprint) by Wilhelm Stekel
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE The present volume completes my English version of the Homosexualit�t portion of the author's Onanie und Homosexualit�t. The first portion has been issued a few months ago, under the title Bisexual Love, and it is very gratifying that the publication of the present volume... more
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The Depths of the Soul; Psycho-Analytical Studies by Wilhelm Stekel
Publisher: London K. Paul, Trench, Trubner Publication date: 1921 Subjects: Psychoanalysis Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to... more
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The Beloved Ego, Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche by Wilhelm Stekel
Publisher: London, Paul Publication date: 1921 Subjects: Psychoanalysis Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more
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Sex and Dreams by Wilhelm Stekel
Publisher: Boston R.G. Badger Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Dreams Neurasthenia Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com... more
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Disguises of Love by Wilhelm Stekel
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Sex (Psychology) Psychoanalysis Sex Body, Mind
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The Homosexual Neuroses by Wilhelm Stekel
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: R. G. Badger Subjects: Sexual deviation Homosexuality Neuroses Paraphilias History / General Psychology / Human Sexuality Social Science / Gay Studies Social Science / Lesbian Studies... more
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Bi-sexual Love by Wilhelm Stekel
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Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomena of Fetishism in Relation to Sex, Disorders of the I...
1930. Two Volumes in One. This book was written by Dr. Stekel, a physician of acknowledged experience in the field of emotional and instinctual disturbances. He wrote it expressly for physicians and earnest students. Contents of Volume One: Definition of Fetishism; Analysis of an Individual Love... more
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Sadism And Masochism - The Psychology Of Hatred And Cruelty - Vol. II by Wilhelm Stek...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Frigidity in Woman in Relation to Her Love Life by Wilhelm Stekel
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Sadism and Masochism: Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty by W...
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Sex and Dreams: The Language of Dreams by Wilhelm Stekel
Wilhelm Stekel was a follower of Sigmund Freud, though Freud was not particularly enamored with him. "Sex and Dreams" was intended as a guide to the interpretation of the Unconscious for those who are concerned professionally with nervous disorders. The present work is devoted almost entirely... more
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The Myth of the Birth of the Hero : A Psychological Exploration of Myth by Otto Rank
Originally published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with... more
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething."Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective... more
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Life After God by Douglas Coupland
We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships?
How do we reach the quiet, safe layer... more
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Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as "microserfs," they spend upward of 16 hours a day "coding" (writing... more
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Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
On a snowy Saturday night in 1979, after making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides the dark visions she's been suffering to her boyfriend, Richard. Only a few hours later she descends into a coma. Nine months after that, she gives birth to a daughter,... more
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All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.The Drummond family descends upon the state of Florida, cutting a swath through Disney World, Cape Canaveral, the swamps and the highways, gathering to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. What... more
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Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
With unflinching candor and black humor, Hey Nostradamus! follows various voices across two decades: the teenagers whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose sudden exposure to their children's passionate underground world... more
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Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland
"The pieces in this book reflect an early-1990s worldview that seems time expired now jettisoned behind us like sparkling chunks of Apollo rocket tumbling back to earth." Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling... more
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City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas Coupland
Eclectic and provocative, this book, designed to resemble a Japanese underground zine, looks at Vancouver from inside out, from the Grouse Grind to the shimmering glass towers, First Nations to feng-shui. Douglas Coupland takes on monster houses, weather, Sandra Bernhard, Love Boats, SkyTrain,... more
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Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland
Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future. From collective memories, Coupland locates objects like stubbie beer bottles and ookpiks, Kraft dinner and maple walnut... more
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Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland returns to reinventing Canada with additional proof that his bestseller Souvenir of Canada made clear: Canada is way more than slightly cool. Coupland's net has a colorful, lively mix of cultural commentary and images that include a tour of Nanaimo bars; unforgettable railways... more
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Terry by Douglas Coupland
In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research � despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he would... more
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La Revue Occidentale Philosophique, Sociale et Politique by Pierre Laffitte
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H. Rider Haggard : She, King Solomon's Mine Allan Quartermain (Gramercy Adventure Li...
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Heart of the World (Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library) by H. Rider Haggard
SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD (1856-1925) originated what is known today as the "lost race novel" with the publication of his fantasy masterpiece SHE in 1886. Since then, hundreds of writers, from Baroness Orczy to Edgar Rice Burroughs, have produced stories of lost lands and peoples discovered by... more
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Ulysses (Modern Library) by James Joyce
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotion...
Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on... more
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Studies on Hysteria by Josef Breuer & Sigmund Freud & Sigmund Freud
The cornerstone of psychoanalysis-and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration-featuring the classic case of Anna O. and the evolution of the cathartic method, in the definitive Strachey translation. Re-packaged for the contemporary audience with what promises to be an unconventional... more
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Philosophy of the unconscious, speculative results according to the inductive method ...
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Philosophy of the unconscious (1893) by Eduard von Hartmann
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN BODILY LIFE. " The Materialists endearour to show that all,... more
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Philosophy Of The Unconscious V3: Speculative Results According To The Inductive Meth...
In Three Volumes.
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: Complete and Unabridged (Living Time World Thought...
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Philosophy of the Unconscious, The: 1: Speculative Results According to the Inductive...
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: Pt. 2: Speculative Results According to the Induct...
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: Pt. 3: Speculative Results According to the Induct...
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Philosophy Of The Unconscious V1 by Eduard Von Hartmann
In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as... more
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: Speculative Results According to the Inductive Met...
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: v. 3: Speculative Results According to the Inducti...
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The Philosophy of the Unconscious: v. 1: Speculative Results According to the Inducti...
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Philosophy of the unconscious, speculative results according to the inductive method ...
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The Sexes Compared, and Other Essays by Eduard Von Hartmann
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Philosophy of the Unconscious, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by Eduard Von Hartmann
" To have ideas, and yet not be conscious of them, there seems to bo a contradiction in that ; for how can we know that we have them, if we are not conscious of them ? Nevertheless, we may become aware indirectly that we have an idea, although we be not directly cognisant of the same" (Kant, "... more
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Philosophy of the Unconscious, Volume 1 by Eduard Von Hartmann
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Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler & Eduard von Hartmann & Richard Alexander...
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The Philosophy Of Mysticism V2 by Carl Du Prel
In Two Volumes. Dreams, Somnambulism, Monistic Vision Of The Soul.
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The Philosophy Of Mysticism V1 by Carl Du Prel
In Two Volumes. Dreams, Somnambulism, Monistic Vision Of The Soul.
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The Philosophy Of Mysticism V2 by Carl Du Prel
In Two Volumes. Dreams, Somnambulism, Monistic Vision Of The Soul.
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The Philosophy Of Mysticism V1 by Carl Du Prel
In Two Volumes. Dreams, Somnambulism, Monistic Vision Of The Soul.
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The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psycho...
Sigmund Freud?s collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities is one of the art world?s best-kept secrets. Over a forty year period he amassed an extraordinary array of nearly three thousand statues, vases, reliefs, busts, rings and prints.� For Freud, psychoanalysis and his art collection... more
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Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
The definitive edition of Virginia Woolf's last and most lyrical work containing the original text she was working on at the time of her death. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for 120 years, and revolves around the village pageant which aspires to... more
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Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writi...
Forty-eight essays from the literary and biographical writings. Selected, edited, and with a Preface by Mary Lyon.
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The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired.
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The Common Reader (First Series, Annotated Edition) by Virginia Woolf & Andrew Mc...
A collection of critical essays by a 20th century writer whose views on everything were widely read.
Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
The common reader The Pastons and Chaucer On not knowing Greek The Elizabethan lumber room Notes on an Elizabethan play Montaigne... more
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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf: Second Edition by Virginia Woolf
Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes for her novels. This collection of nearly fifty pieces brings together the contents of two published volumes, A Haunted House and Mrs. Dalloway’s Party; a number of uncollected stories; and several... more
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Contemporary Writers: Essays on Twentieth-Century Books and Authors by Virginia Woolf
Here, in more than forty essays, are Woolf's thoughts on her contemporaries in the art of fiction; reviewing and criticism; and one of her favorite themes, female novelists. Among the writers reviewed are Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Theodore... more
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (Harvest Book, Hb 294) by Virginia Woolf
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker);... more
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1, 1915-1919 by Virginia Woolf & Anne Olivier B...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2: 1920-1924 by Unknown Author
The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted... more
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3: 1925-30 by Virginia Woolf
An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors" (Atlantic Monthly).... more
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Diary of Virginia Woolf, the - V.5 1936-41 (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf &...
Virginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index; maps.
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The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1904-1912 (Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf) by Unkno...
Nonfiction pieces dating from 1904, when she was twenty-three, to 1912, the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. "These are polished works of literary journalism-shrewd, deft, inquisitive, graceful, and often sparkling" (Library Journal). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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The Essays of Virginia Woolf: Volume II 1912-1918 by Virginia; McNeillie, Andrew Wool...
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The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol, 5: 1929 to 1932 (v. 5) by Virginia Woolf & Stu...
This collection shows Woolf’s genius as a critic and essayist: as well as displaying her perceptive understanding of writers and their work, it also offers us an important insight into her creative mind.
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Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
A novel contribution to Browning material, which will interest anyone who saw THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET, anyone who is collecting Browning data, and most people who like to read about dogs. For with the slenderest material to work on, Miss Woolf has produced a sympathetic study of the... more
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Granite and Rainbow: Essays by Virginia Woolf
A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. "These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifully mannered and mellow" (Rumer Godden, New York Herald Tribune). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
Part 1: The art of fiction. The... more
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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia... more
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Jacob's Room (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Virginia Woolf & Sue Roe
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood, through college at Cambridge, love affairs... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 1 (1888-1912) (Harvest Book) by Virginia Woolf
A collection of Virginia Woolf's correspondence from age six to the eve of her marriage twenty-four years later. "Engagingly fresh and spontaneous as young Virginia's letters are...the excitement in this collection arises from [her] growing awareness of herself as a writer" (Chicago Sun-Times).... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 2 (1912-1922) (Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1911-1...
Over six hundred letters covering the first decade of the Woolfs' marriage; the publication of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room; the founding of Hogarth Press; the years of World War I; Virginia's two periods of insanity and an attempted suicide. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 3 by Virginia Woolf
Now in her forties and in love, Woolf writes two of her greatest novels during this period. "I can only write, letters that is, if I don't read them: once think and I destroy."-to Pernel Strachey, August 10, 1923. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson;... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 6 by Virginia Woolf
The final volume of Virginia Woolf's remarkable letters. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann.
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Letters of Virginia Woolf: Reflection of the Other Person, 1929-31 v. 4 (The Letters ...
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 4 by Virginia Woolf
These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Reflection of the Other Person, 1929-31 v. 4 (The Lett...
Virginia Woolf is 47 at the beginning of this volume, and struggling to complete her masterpiece, "The Waves" - rewriting it three times, interrupted by illness and unwanted visitors. But she continued to meet and correspond with old friends such as Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Vita... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 5 by Virginia Woolf
The penultimate volume of Woolf's letters, when the author was between the ages of 50 and 53, covers the composition of the Years and the death of Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry. "Her wit flashes, often unexpectedly, in letters of almost every kind" (New Yorker). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and... more
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Letters of Virginia Woolf: Change of Perspective, 1923-28 v. 3 (The Letters of Virgin...
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Letters of Virginia Woolf: Question of Things Happening, 1912-22 v. 2 (The Letters of...
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Leave the Letters Till We're Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume VI: 1936-194...
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A change of perspective (The Letters of Virginia Woolf) by Virginia Woolf
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. 3 by Nigel Nicolson
Now in her forties and in love, Woolf writes two of her greatest novels during this period. "I can only write, letters that is, if I don't read them: once think and I destroy."-to Pernel Strachey, August 10, 1923. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson;... more
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 4 by Nigel Nicolson
These years were dominated by one woman and one book. The woman was Ethel Smyth; the book was The Waves. This volume's "unerringly human and confessional tone makes Woolf, at last, a real person" (San Francisco Chronicle). Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel... more
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Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
This marvelous collection -- spontaneous and witty -- shows Virginia Woolf to be one of the great correspondents. It displays not only her courage and brilliance, her generosity and love of gossip, but also her genius for close and enduring friendship.
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Afterwords: Letters On The Death Of Virginia Woolf by Unknown Author
"What a compelling story! Sybil Oldfield’s deft editing and delightfully informative notes allow the reader to watch the drama of Virginia Woolf’s death played out without the least bit of ghoulishness. It is actually liberating to find that she was mourned so deeply as a passionate... more
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Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf by Sybil Oldfield (Editor)
On March 28, 1941, at the height of Hitler's victories during the Second World War, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Since that time, Woolf's suicide has been the subject of controversy for the media, for... more
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Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks; Index.
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The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf by Frances Spalding
These letters of Virginia Woolf's?at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective?are possibly most revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. "A true letter," she insisted, "should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of... more
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The sickle side of the moon (Letters of Virginia Woolf) by Virginia Woolf
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Louise DeSalvo & Mitchel...
After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings... more
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The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf by V Sackville-West
This is a collection of Vita Sackville-West's letters to Virginia Woolf, assembled with extracts from Virginia's replies and a linking narrative. It illuminates each woman's contemporaries, times, travels, their moments of levity, their periods of despair. And it reflects the private voices of... more
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-West & Vir...
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 2nd Edition by Vita Sackville-W...
After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began an intense and passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. In their correspondence, the women leave no aspect of their lives untouched: they record... more
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf by Louise A. DeSalvo & Mitch...
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The Moment, and Other Essays (Harvest Book, Hb 295) by Virginia Woolf
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A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf has been acclaimed as a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell edited the five-volume original, and she has now abridged the Diary in this splendidly readable single volume edition. “A fine opportunity to experience Woolf’s biting wit and scathing depiction of her... more
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A Moment's Liberty: Shorter Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
An abridged one-volume edition of the diaries of Virginia Woolf. They span the years from 1915 till a few days before her death in 1941. She describes with perception and lively wit public events, gossip about her famous circle of friends and the difficulties she endured with her art.
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A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf has been acclaimed as a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell edited the five-volume original, and she has now abridged the Diary in this splendidly readable single volume edition. ?A fine opportunity to experience Woolf?s biting wit and scathing depiction of her... more
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Moments of Being: Second Edition by Virginia Woolf
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing: “By far the most important book about Virginia Woolf...that has appeared since her death” [Angus Wilson, Observer (London)]. Edited and with an Introduction by Jeanne Schulkind; Index.
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Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings (Harvest/Hbj Book) by Virgini...
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Moments of being: Unpublished autobiographical writings by Virginia Woolf
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MOMENTS OF BEING by Virginia Woolf
MOMENTS OF BEING is a collection containing Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. The author was well born, and in "Reminiscenses," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding... more
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she... more
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The Mrs. Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf
This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party, and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these... more
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Mrs. Dalloway (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Virginia Woolf
Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. And by that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that... more
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Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short-Story Sequence by Virginia Woolf
Woolf’s response to parties as heightened social occasions is demonstrated in her great novel Mrs. Dalloway. The party on which it focuses spilled over into these seven stories, written during the same period. They are here published in this unified sequence for the first time. Edited and... more
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Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short-Story Sequence by Virginia Woolf & Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach."-from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait... more
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Mrs Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence (Vintage Classics) by Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach."-from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait... more
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Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence by Virginia Woolf
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach."-from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait... more
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Night and Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away... more
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A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 by Virginia Woolf
Covering the years 1897-1909, these journals complete the autobiographical sequence of Virginia Woolf's diary and letters and provide a picture of the circumstances in which she taught herself her craft. Many of the incidents of these years were to profoundly influence the rest of her life and... more
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Roger Fry: A Biography (Harvest Book ; Hb338) by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Essay by Virginia Woolf, published in 1929. The work was based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, Cambridge. Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular, in this famous essay which asserts that a woman must have money and a... more
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Three Guineas (Harvest book) by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf received three separate requests for a guinea--one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting employment for professional women, and one to help prevent war. This book is an answer to these requests--and as Wolfe examines the three causes and points out that... more
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The Virginia Woolf Reader: An Anthology of Her Best Short Stories, Essays, Fiction, a...
This rich introduction to the art of Virginia Woolf contains the complete texts of five short stories and eight essays, together with substantial excerpts from the longer fiction and nonfiction. An ideal volume for those encountering Woolf for the first time as well as for those already devoted... more
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The Voyage Out (Twentieth Century Classics) by Virginia Woolf & Jane Wheare
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South american coast. “It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South americanca not found... more
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The Waves by Virginia Woolf
One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate... more
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Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf & Michele Barrett (Editor)
Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in particular. This... more
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A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw... more
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The Years by Virginia Woolf
Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. It explores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education and politics in English society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large middle-class London family.
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Brave New World (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Aldous Huxley
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society?and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity.
Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members,... more
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
Vintage Vonnegut--two dozen stories never collected before. Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago--soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new little boxes with moving images that were finding their way into the homes of more and more Americans--a... more
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To The Breakers - The Death Of The "Mauretania" by Max Wilkinson
For over 20 years, the Greyhound of the Seas, the Cunard Liner "Mauretania" held the record for the fastest Transatlantic crossing. Much loved and admired, after two decades as the pinnacle of ocean liners, her time came to end. First laid up and then, in a fanfare of nostalgia, consigned to the... more
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Happy Birthday Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The opening of this play is "This is a simple minded play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don't."
Big game hunter, war hero and famous soldier Harold Ryan returns home to America, after having been presumed dead for several years. During the war he killed over 200 men and women,... more
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud
In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free... more
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The Ego and the Id (International Psycho-analytical Library) by Sigmund Freud & J...
In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he... more
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Tomorrow the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein (Editor)
This volume has the best stories from top science fiction writers as C. M. Kornbluth, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber and many more.
I'm scared / Jack Finney --
The silly season / C.M. Kornbluth --
The report on the Barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. --
The... more
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Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut's... more
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976?1985 (Library of America) by Kurt Vonnegut
With the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut cemented his reputation as America?s funniest and most original satirist. This third volume of the definitive edition of his fiction collects four novels written in the 1970s and ?80s, when Vonnegut was at the height of his... more
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Sun, Moon, Star by Kurt Vonnegut & Ivan Chermayeff (Illustrator)
Sun, Moon, Star is the story of the birth of Jesus -- as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most... more
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Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with... more
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Deadeye Dick (Large Print) by Kurt Vonnegut
Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors-a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb-Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us... more
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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally... more
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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
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Angels Without Wings: A Courageous Family's Triumph over Tragedy by Jane Vonnegut Yar...
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Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus is the fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate who was in charge of the humiliating evacuation of U.S. personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. Returning home from the war, he unknowingly fathered an illegitimate son. In 2001, the son begins a... more
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Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr.... more
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Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren
A reissue of a classic American novel, with an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, Nelson Algren's second novel, originally published in 1942, tells the story of Bruno Bicek, a tough from Chicago's Northwest Side, and Steffi, the woman who shares his dream while living his nightmare. "An unusual book... more
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Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
There's been a timequake. And everyone--even you--must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time--minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again,... more
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
"My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple-bypass," Vonnegut writes at the outset of this comical fictional adventure, a flirtation not with death so much as with our very aversion to it. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth... more
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We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut
Called ?our finest black-humorist? by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
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The Riverside Shakespeare (2 vol) by Unknown Author
After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes,... more
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Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut (Literary Conversations Series) by William Rodney Al...
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Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Asa B. Pieratt & Julie Huffman-Kli...
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Love as Always, Kurt: Vonnegut as I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw
When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ducked into his classroom at the Iowa Writer?s Workshop in September of 1965, his jokes drew only weak laughter and a few rolled eyes. But workshop student Loree Rackstraw was quietly impressed by this ?great bear of a man? and his down-to-earth sensibilities about... more
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The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (Contributions to the Study of World L...
Since 1950, when his short stories first appeared, Kurt Vonnegut has published almost 50 short stories, 13 novels, two plays, and a teleplay. He has remained one of the shrewdest commentators--and often harshest critics--of American society, challenging the complacency of the Eisenhower years,... more
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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his... more
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A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilarious and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die-God forbid-I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, 'Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?'"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to... more
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The Vonnegut Encyclopedia by Marc Leeds
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is the authorized, comprehensive, descriptive catalogue of the characters, themes, phrasing, and imagery found in Kurt Vonnegut's novels, short stories, plays, and essays. Starting with the false utopia governed by the ruling technocracy of Player Piano (1952) and on... more
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter-and how a young... more
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Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay
Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood.
Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is... more
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Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings by Gregory Titelman
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Pet...
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The Way of a Pilgrim / The Pilgrim Continues His Way by Helen Bacovcin (Translator)
This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray... more
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Zen in the Art of Archery (Vintage Spiritual Classics) by Eugen Herrigel
An illuminating account of how to understand Zen through archery.
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky & Andrew R. MacAndrew (Translator) &a...
In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the... more
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The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Lif...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics) by Marcus Aure...
Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180 A.D., Marcus Aurelius has long been remembered for his philosophic wisdom and the golden age attributed to his gentle rule. Both a historical document and a spiritual diary, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius provides insight into the mind of this great ruler,... more
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On the Shortness of Life by Seneca & C. D. N. Costa (Translator)
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings... more
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The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh
A new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh
Since its publication in 1975, The Miracle of Mindfulness has been cherished by generations of readers for its eloquent and useful introduction to... more
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The Art of War: New Translation by Sun-tzu & Ralph D. Sawyer (Translator)
An illuminating new look at the classic primer on warfare. Distinguishing itself from many previous versions, this contemporary translation of Sun-Tzu's landmark text acknowledges the work first and foremost as a masterpiece of military strategy. Translator Ralph Sawyer provides the most... more
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The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
While spiritual guidance may be simply a comfort to some, it is an absolute necessity to those who would undertake the monumental task of fulfilling the soul's destiny of unity with God. In coming into the presence of the divine Creator, man would find himself infinitely smaller and wholly... more
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his life and died. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil... more
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Essential Thinkers Aristotle: Selections From Nicomachean Ethics and Politics (Collec...
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Living With the Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama & Rama & Ajaya
Ordained a monk at a young age by a great sage of the Himalayas, Swami Rama was involved in a learning journey from monasteries to caves, studying and living with more than a hundred sages in the solitude of the Himalaya Mountains and the plains of India. Among those with whom he studied were... more
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The Screwtape Letters / Mere Christianity / Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis
C.S. Lewis was born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. The son of a solicitor, he lived a privileged childhood and was educated at Oxford. He went to war during the last year of World War I and was hit in the back by an English shell. He then returned to Oxford and became a fellow at Magdalen College;... more
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way W...
How Great Firms Fail By Doing Everything RightHarvard professor Clayton M. Christensen demonstrates in the most revolutionary business book in years why outstanding companies that did everything right-were in tune with the competition, listened to customers, and invested aggressively in new... more
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David ...
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives.
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community... more
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From Chaos to Coherence (The Power to Change Performance) by Doc Childre & Bruce ...
A gutsy, sincere, scientifically-based business case for bringing more heart into organizations. Presents HeartMath's impeccable biomedical research and highly practical tools for humanizing business, building people and organizations that respond gracefully to change, crisis and challenge.... more
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How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane E Dutton & Gretche...
Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people?s?and their own?capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars?including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take; positive organizational... more
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It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Be...
Are you surrounding yourself with the right people?
Yes, your success in business and in life depends on your own performance. But have you thought about how those around you affect that performance? Do they strengthen or weaken it? Help or hinder your progress?
In It?s Not the How or the What... more
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431
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Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion by Meredith Fineman
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling�author of�Originals
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today?s dramatically reconfigured world, success is... more
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things (Random House Large Print) ...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg &...
#1 New York Times�Best Seller
From Facebook?s COO and Wharton?s top-rated professor, the #1�New York Times�best-selling authors of�Lean In�and�Originals:�a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life?s inevitable setbacks.
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After the sudden... more
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
The #1 national bestseller and"New York Times"bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas and how leaders can fight groupthink
Reading "Originals "made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his... more
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J....
New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we?re expected to make more�and... more
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performan...
We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz... more
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Self Confidence Secrets: How To Be Outgoing and Overcome Shyness by Lucas McCain
How confident would you say you are right now?
? Are you shy?
? Are you easily intimidated?
? Are you a wallflower who feels socially awkward?
? Can you comfortably look anyone you meet in the eye and immediately feel comfortable around them?
If you struggle with self-confidence, you may... more
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440
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any... more
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441
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The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness an...
Modern times are stressful?and it?s killing us. Unfortunately, we can?t avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original approach to help readers harness the power of... more
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442
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (Translator)
The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them,... more
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The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress (Te...
Time management skills that work! A proven method for going from stressed and overwhelmed to peaceful and confident in three easy steps The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment addresses the three key elements of effective time investment: priorities, expectations, and routines. Saunders helps... more
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Classic Edition (Illustrated) by James Joyce
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448
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Ulysses by James Joyce Unabridged 1922 Original Version by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce Unabridged 1922 Original Version
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449
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Step-by-Step Irish: An Irish Language Workbook for Beginners by James Joyce
Step-by-Step Irish is an easy guide to the Irish language. Through a variety of lessons, this workbook not only covers grammatical concepts, but Irish vocabulary and pronunciation are introduced as well. Exercises at the end of each lesson ensure that readers comprehend what has been taught.
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450
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James Joyce, Collection novels by James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882 ? 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are... more
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JPod by Douglas Coupland
JPod, Douglas Coupland’s most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with “J” are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of... more
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452
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The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland's ingenious new novel--sort of a Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf--we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged "aisles associate"�at Staples, condemned to... more
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453
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Zadig and L'Ingenu by Francois Voltaire & John Everett Butt (Translator)
One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France.
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454
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Micromegas (Biblioteca Del Faro / Lighthouse Library) by Voltaire
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455
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A Voyage To The Moon (1899) by Cyrano De Bergerac
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either... more
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Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun : The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution by Gita Ma...
The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigée Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it... more
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The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin Sharma
Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of... more
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And I Don't Want to Live This Life by Deborah Spungen
For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager... more
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462
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment A...
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463
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Lean Enterprise: Adopting Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and Lean Startup at Scale by J...
The second generation of Lean and Agile software delivery methodologies has arrived, in the form of the Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps movements, promising faster time-to-market, less waste, and frequent, low-risk releases. But adopting these ideas is hard in enterprises with... more
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464
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Enlightenment, and it is one... more
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465
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When She Was Good by Philip Roth
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her... more
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The Search for Fulfillment: Revolutionary New Research That Reveals the Secret to Lon...
In the fall of 1966, at a university in the Northeast, 350 students signed up for a psychological survey on personal development and happiness. In 1977, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, then a young psychology professor, came across the study and decided to expand it. She tracked down the study's... more
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467
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The Stranger by Albert Camus & Matthew Ward (Translator)
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun drenched Algerian beach,... more
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The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed (In Russian: ????, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in... more
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Notebooks, 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein & G. H. Von Wright & G. E. M. Ans...
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472
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Paradise Lost (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by John Milt...
As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous Paradise Lost, now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature. A retelling of the biblical story... more
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You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas
Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology’s cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart—a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath—reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities.... more
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Renegade Beauty: Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance--Beauty Secrets, Solutions, ...
Rethink conventional notions of beauty and wellness, abandon established regimes and commercial products, and embrace your ?renegade? beauty
In this essential guide, Nadine Artemis introduces readers to the concept of "renegade" beauty?a practice of doing less and allowing the elements and the... more
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478
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Miscellany/Melanges (Studies on Voltaire & the Eighteenth Century) (French Edition) b...
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479
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Reinventing Voltaire: The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-century France (Stu...
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Voltaire: A Collection of Critical Essays, by Comp. Bottiglia William F.
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Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
In 1733, the lovely, intelligent, and married Marquise du Chtelet commenced her romance with one Franois-Marie Arouet, a philosophe who had made a name for himself as "Voltaire." Mitford deftly and engagingly recounts their exemplary affair, whether in studious exile in the country, on the run... more
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The Spirit Of Voltaire by Norman L. Torrey
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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487
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Voltaire and the English (Studies on Voltaire) by G. Barber & W.H. Barber & e...
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Candide: Optimism Demolished (Twayne's Masterwork Studies) by Haydn Mason
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491
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Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) b...
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Voltaire, Literary Critic (Studies on Voltaire) by David Williams
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493
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Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy
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THE EDGE OF PHYSICS: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONTIERS OF COSMOLOGY by ANIL ANANTHASWAMY
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Data Communications Using Object-Oriented Design and C++/Book and Disk (Mcgraw-Hill S...
This example-laden book/disk combination is a practical resource for communications professionals who are interested in the nuts and bolts of implementing data communications systems using object-oriented design in C++. The author illustrates such fundamental data communications concepts as... more
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Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Qua...
One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018
One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics
One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018
The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our... more
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Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Qua...
The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.
Many of science's greatest minds have grappled with the simple... more
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The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Unive...
In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up almost a... more
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499
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Tales from the Edge of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society by examining a range of neuropsychological ailments from autism and Alzheimer?s to out-of-body experiences and body integrity identity... more
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self by ...
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer?s disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard?s syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders�revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science journalism
... more
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your De...
Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and PeaceThis inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to... more
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The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business w...
We all know that networking is important, and that forming relationships with others is a vital part of success. But sometimes it seems like networking removes all emotions from the equation and focuses only on immediate goals?whereas the kind of relationships that have true staying power, give... more
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Cl...
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving, every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones,... more
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
In her #1 New York Times bestsellers, Bren� Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she?s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up... more
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First 90 Days Updated and Expanded by Watkins Michae
The First 90 Days Proven strategies for Getting up to speed smarter and faster.
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of... more
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I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
One of America?s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother... more
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism (A Norton Short) by Brooke Harringto...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemin...
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The New Golden Bough: A Classic Work on Ancient and Primitive Magic, Religion, Ritual...
Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough was the first work to trace the evolution of human behavior from savage to civlized man. What Freud did for the individual, Frazer did for civilization as a whole. His study of primitive magic, taboos, sexual practices, superstition, and wizardry is one of the... more
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The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion: Part 2. Taboo and the Perils of the ...
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1922 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London.
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Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss & M.D.
The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives.
Dr. Weiss tells of the many facets and lifetimes of his patient and her re-incarnations and the lessons of the Masters who are encountered as we exit this life plane and begin... more
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Totemica: Totemica: a supplement: A Supplement to "Totemism and Exogamy" by Sir James...
Publisher: London : Macmillan Publication date: 1937 Subjects: Totemism Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more
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Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Healt...
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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folklore by James G. Frazer
A world classic.
The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos,... more
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Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series The Fundamental Institutions by...
1894. Smith studies the primitive religions of the Semitic peoples, viewed in relation to other ancient religions and to the spiritual religion of the Old Testament and of Christianity. Contents: Introduction: The Subject and the Method of Enquiry; The Nature of the Religious Community, and the... more
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Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the L...
"This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my life." Thus wrote C. G. Jung about his most famous and influential work, the one that marked the... more
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The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion - Part I, The Magic Art and the Evol...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.
With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her... more
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Lovely One (Large Print) by Ketanji Brown Jackson
In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.
With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji BrownJackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s... more
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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today?s Fringe Is Tomorrow?s Mainstream by Amy Webb
�How did we miss that?? is perhaps the scariest question for a business leader to face: it's the one that they have to ask themselves when one day they wake up to discover that a competitor or startup has just released something new that changes their world forever. If you're asking this... more
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524
| Tawny J. |
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by ...
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people... more
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525
| Tawny J. |
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy...
No description available.
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526
| Tawny J. |
The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (Collected Works of C.G. Jung) by C.G. Jung
'Psychotic contents, especially in paranoid cases, show close analogies with the type of dream that the primitive aptly calls a 'big dream'. Unlike ordinary dreams, such a dream is highly impressive, numinous, and its imagery frequently makes use of motifs analagous to or even identical with... more
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527
| Tawny J. |
Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachings of David R....
How does one traverse the spiritual landscape to move beyond suffering to experience the peace and love of God, to transcend illusion and realize the state of enlightenment? In this collection of inspiring passages from David R. Hawkins?s work, the reader is... more
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528
| Tawny J. |
Along the Path to Enlightenment: 365 Daily Reflections from David R. Hawkins by David...
����� What blocks spiritual progress? And how do we transcend these blocks? ������� The spiritual teachings of David R. Hawkins M.D.,�Ph.D.,�on the nature of consciousness, spirit, and ego are known worldwide by students seeking to realize spiritual Truth. ������� As a mystic, Dr. Hawkins has... more
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529
| Tawny J. |
Healing and Recovery by David R. Hawkins
In this book, you will learn why the body may not respond to traditional medical approaches. Specific instructions and guidelines are provided that can result in complete healing from any disease. The importance of including spiritual practices in one's healing and recovery... more
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530
| Tawny J. |
Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man by David R. Hawkins
This is the seventh book in a progressive series based on the revelations of consciousness research. It describes in detail how to discern not only truth from falsehood but also the illusion of appearance from the actual core of inner reality. The text explains how to differentiate perception... more
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531
| Tawny J. |
Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality by David R. Hawkins
This, the sixth book in a progressive series by the author, finalizes and further clarifies the true nature and core of the condition termed Enlightenment. Although it draws on consciousness research for explanation and contextualization, it is primarily an instruction manual for the serious... more
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532
| Tawny J. |
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment by David R. H...
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness explores the ego's expressions and inherent limitations and gives detailed explanations and instructions on how to transcend them. It expands the understanding of the levels of consciousness as presented in the now widely-known Map of Consciousness.... more
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533
| Tawny J. |
Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference by David R. Hawkins
The exploration into the truth of man's activities is unique, intriguing, and provocative. From a new perspective, one quickly grasps the levels of truth expressed by the media, the arts, writers, painters, architecture, movies, TV, politics, and war, as well as academia and the greatest... more
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534
| Tawny J. |
I: Reality and Subjectivity by David R. Hawkins
The book 'I: Reality and Subjectivity' concludes the presentation of a long-predicted major advance in critical human knowledge. It explains and describes the very substrate and essence of consciousness as it evolved from its primordial appearance as life on earth on up through... more
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535
| Tawny J. |
The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden by David R. Hawkins
The Eye of the I reveals the very core of the spiritual process critical to the state of enlightenment. The intrinsic power of the information in this book is sufficient to elevate the consciousness of the reader. Included are verbatim dialogues, instructions and explanations with... more
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536
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537
| Tawny J. |
Qualitative and Quantitative analysis and calibration of the level of human conscious...
No description available.
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538
| Tawny J. |
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East by ...
When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence-historical, linguistic, and archaeological-to tackle these important questions. When did the... more
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539
| Tawny J. |
The World of Odysseus by M. I. Finley
The World of Odysseus is a concise and fascinating account of the society that gave birth to The Iliad and The Odyssey. A pioneering work of social history first published in 1954, Finley's brilliant study is a fundamental companion for any student of Homer or ancient Greece. "As indispensable... more
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540
| Tawny J. |
Egypt Greece and Rome: Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman
In this unique and comprehensive introduction to the region's three major civilizations, Egypt, Greece, and Rome draws a fascinating picture of the deep links between the cultures across the Mediterranean and explores the ways in which these civilizations continue to be influential to this day. ... more
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541
| Tawny J. |
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah B Pomeroy
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542
| Tawny J. |
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught... more
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544
| Tawny J. |
The Singer of Tales: Third Edition (Hellenic Studies Series) by Albert B. Lord
First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord?s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes... more
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545
| Tawny J. |
The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey by Jenny Strauss Clay
Available in paperback for the first time, Jenny Strauss Clay's landmark study of the "Odyssey" argues that Athena's wrath is central to both the structure and the theme of the epic poem. Clay demonstrates that an appreciation of the thematic role of Athena's anger elucidates the poem's complex... more
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546
| Tawny J. |
Homer: The Odyssey (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) by Jasper Griffin
This handy guide to The Odyssey introduces students to a text which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3,000 years. Providing a summary of the poem and examining its structure, Jasper Griffin clearly outlines the unity, values and techniques of the poem, as well as the reasons for its... more
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547
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548
| Tawny J. |
Troy And Homer: Towards A Solution Of An Old Mystery by Joachim Latacz
In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality. Earlier excavations at the hill of Hisarlik, in Turkey, on the Dardanelles,... more
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549
| Tawny J. |
The Distaff Side by Elizabeth Palmer
When Bertie, a browbeaten son of Britain's upper crust, wants to marry Mai, the feminist who lives in the mansion down the road, his mother, Augusta, the ultra-snobby Langham matriarch, opposes their union.
Tides turn, however, with the introduction of Zhenia Dashkova, the mysterious... more
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550
| Tawny J. |
The Unity of the Odyssey by George Dimock
An analysis of the "Odyssey", this book tells the epic tale and provides information on the psychology of the characters, the role of the gods, the structure of the poem and the significance of the names of the characters.
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551
| Tawny J. |
Siren Songs : Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey by Lillian Doherty
In Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey, Lillian Eileen Doherty shows us that the attitude of Odysseus, as well as of the Odyssey, is highly ambivalent toward women. Odysseus rewards supportive female characters by treating them as privileged members of the audience for... more
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552
| Tawny J. |
Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Joh...
This is the first study to examine in detail the role and character of Homer's people (Greek laoi) in Homeric storytelling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the... more
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553
| Tawny J. |
The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning by Professor Bruce Louden
Bruce Louden's bold re-reading of the Odyssey—the first attempt in years to map in detail the poem's overall structure—offers new insights into the artistry of Odysseus' mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's masterful craftsmanship. Louden's groundbreaking work... more
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554
| Tawny J. |
The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity by Irad Malkin
This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages ... more
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555
| Tawny J. |
Poetry as Performance : Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy
This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. It stresses the role of performance and the... more
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556
| Tawny J. |
Homer and the Artists : Text and Picture in Early Greek Art by Anthony Snodgrass
This is a study of the works of art from early Greece that have long been presented as "illustrations to Homer," but that are argued here to be nothing of the kind. Early Greek artists showed no preference for Homeric subjects and, when their interests did coincide with Homer's, treated his... more
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557
| Tawny J. |
The Secret Language of Birthdays : Personology Profiles for Each Day of the Year by G...
Offering a two-page spread on every day of the year, a one-of-a-kind combination of astrology and numerology presents an abundance of information, including personality profiles, illustrations, meditation suggestions, and more for each day.
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558
| Tawny J. |
Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done by Julian Birkinshaw
The recent economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense?a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-term consequences,... more
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559
| Tawny J. |
The Great Gatsby (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) by F. Sc...
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560
| Tawny J. |
Lysistrata by Aristophanes & Sarah Ruden (Translator)
This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for the songs. Appended commentary essays -- on ancient warfare, classical Greek rationalism, Athenian women, Athenian democracy and the Athenian... more
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561
| Tawny J. |
The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible by Sarah Ruden
No description available.
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562
| Tawny J. |
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: With Strictures On Political And Moral Subjects...
First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for... more
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563
| Tawny J. |
Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (New England in the World) by Unknown Author
These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the nineteenth century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades. The authors--leading scholars of Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the... more
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564
| Tawny J. |
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England?s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women?s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose... more
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565
| Tawny J. |
The Peabody Sisters : Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters -- and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day -- has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the... more
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566
| Tawny J. |
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Indep...
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567
| Tawny J. |
Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification by David Waldstreicher
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery?s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the... more
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568
| Tawny J. |
William Styron : A Life by James L.W. Iii West
On the door to William Styron's writing studio is a quotation from Flaubert: "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." Styron has lived by that injunction, addressing major subjects--slavery, the Holocaust, mental... more
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569
| Tawny J. |
The Perfect Hour : The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Lov...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring. Their romance began instantly, flourished in... more
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570
| Tawny J. |
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the... more
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571
| Tawny J. |
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank,... more
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572
| Tawny J. |
Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can... more
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575
| Tawny J. |
Practicing Our Sighs: The Collected Poems of Richard Snyder by Richard Snyder
The collected works of esteemed Ohio poet Richard Snyder.
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576
| Tawny J. |
Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (American Crossroads) by Tyina St...
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.�Houston Bound�draws on social and cultural history to show how,�despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through... more
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577
| Tawny J. |
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then... more
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578
| Tawny J. |
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library ...
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.Slouching... more
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579
| Tawny J. |
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
In her first book since The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion has now written with stunning frankness about her daughter, Quintana Roo, as well as thoughts and fears about having children and about growing old.
Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana?s wedding... more
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580
| Tawny J. |
James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The...
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581
| Tawny J. |
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (Library of America) by Shirley Jackson
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582
| Tawny J. |
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
A small group of apocalypse survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new human race.
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583
| Tawny J. |
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its... more
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584
| Tawny J. |
My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics) by Frederick Douglass
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed... more
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585
| Tawny J. |
La Joie de Vivre (Dodo Press) (French Edition) by Emile Zola
�mile Zola (1840-1902), n� � Paris, est un �crivain, journaliste et homme public fran�ais, consid�r� comme le chef de file du naturalisme. C'est l'un des romanciers fran�ais les plus universellement populaires, l'un des plus publi�s et traduits au monde, le plus adapt� au cin�ma et � la... more
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586
| Tawny J. |
Smile for No Good Reason: Simple Things You Can Do to Get Happy NOW by Lee Jampolsky
Building on the work pioneered by his father, Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, the author shows how Attitudinal Healing will give readers the happiness they seek-without changing the amount in one's bank account, spouse, job, status, or religion. The only thing readers need to change is that over which... more
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587
| Tawny J. |
The Art of Trust: Healing Your Heart and Opening Your Mind by Lee Jampolsky
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588
| Tawny J. |
Self Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance (Rediscovered riches) by Sa...
"Samuel Smiles is alive and well and available to lead us into the next decade...The Victorian moralist's universal best-seller...is a better guide to the prevailing political and economic orthodoxy than the incomprehensible texts of that other 19th century thinker, Karl Marx." Joe Rogaly, The... more
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590
| Tawny J. |
Ciceronis De Oratore Libri III, Orator, De Claris Oratoribus (1554) (Latin Edition) b...
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
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591
| Tawny J. |
The Sickness Unto Death: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 19 by Soren Kierkegaard & Ed...
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the... more
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593
| Tawny J. |
Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly... more
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594
| Tawny J. |
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.�
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has... more
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595
| Tawny J. |
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as... more
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596
| Tawny J. |
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD
A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this ?stimulating and important book? (Financial Times) from the director of UC Berkeley?s Center for Human Sleep Science is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber. As the Guardian said, Walker explains ?how a good... more
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597
| Tawny J. |
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes
"A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne LamottBill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get... more
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598
| Tawny J. |
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschl...
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patientThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his... more
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599
| Tawny J. |
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
In his classic work David Bohm develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole. Written clearly, and without use of technical or scientific jargon, Wholeness and the Implicate Order is essential reading for... more
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600
| Tawny J. |
The New Physics and Cosmology Dialogues with the Dalai Lama by Arthur Zajonc & Za...
What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind and Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, Arthur Zajonc,... more
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601
| Tawny J. |
Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer (The Frontiers Col...
The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our... more
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602
| Tawny J. |
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient by Norman Cousins
The best-selling, groundbreaking classic by Norman Cousins on combating life-threatening illness through humor and patient participation in care. Anatomy of an Illness was the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health. It started the... more
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603
| Tawny J. |
The Art of War (Musashi, Book 2) by Eiji Yoshikawa
From the grand cities of Kyoto and Osaka to the windswept mountain temples, Japan is in an uneasy state of peace. Masterless--samurai--ronin--wander the land. While a beauitful woman searches for him, and his old friend. Matahachi, steals a new identity and buys a crisis of the soul. Musashi... more
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605
| Tawny J. |
Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo
In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for... more
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606
| Tawny J. |
Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung ...
A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world.
“During the years when I had abandoned myself, my mind felt undeniably heavy. I knew I needed to find a clear way to help me feel... more
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607
| Tawny J. |
Inward by Yung Pueblo
“i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored”
From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes... more
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608
| Tawny J. |
Inward by yung pueblo
Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the reader that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.
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609
| Tawny J. |
How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compa...
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610
| Tawny J. |
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde & Robert Mighall
Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to indulge in his desires, as only the portrait bears the traces of his decadence and becomes a nightmarish picture of his soul.
Edited with an... more
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611
| Tawny J. |
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under--maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely... more
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612
| Tawny J. |
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts ...
A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.
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613
| Tawny J. |
The Essential Rumi (Essential (Booksales)) by Jalal Al-Din Rumi & Jelalludin Rumi
From the premier interpreter of Rumi comes the first definitive one-volume collection of the enduringly popular spiritual poetry by the extraordinary thirteenth-century Sufi mystic.
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615
| Tawny J. |
Surrounded by Narcissists: How to Effectively Recognize, Avoid, and Defend Yourself A...
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616
| Tawny J. |
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Hunger by Knut Hamsun is a strange, semi-delirious, gorgeous narrative of a young man who wanders the Norwegian urban milieu and spends most of his time starving and contemplating eccentric ways of obtaining food for a few coins. The occasional income he gets from his writing is barely... more
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617
| Tawny J. |
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves... more
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| Tawny J. |
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it mean to ‘always be optimising’? And what is it about scams and the millennial generation?
Offering nuanced and witty reflections on feminism, reality TV, the internet, drugs, identity and more, Trick... more
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The Best American Essays 2025 by Jia Tolentino & Kim Dana Kupperman
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622
| Tawny J. |
Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells by Cl...
This is the only book by Cleve Backster himself, describing 36 years of research in biocommunication, observed electrical responses in plant life and other living organisms. All life forms have the capability of responding to one another, from plants and bacteria to foods and animal cells. Most... more
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624
| Tawny J. |
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
In this classic work David Bohm, writing clearly and without technical jargon, develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole.
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625
| Tawny J. |
Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholeness by John P. Briggs & F. ...
For hundreds of years scientists have believed that the universe is a subtle machinery of interacting parts-from the smallest subatomic particle to larger collections like human beings and galaxies.
In 'Looking Glass Universe' Drs. John Briggs and F. David Peat recreate the mind-boggling... more
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626
| Tawny J. |
Turbulent mirror: An illustrated guide to chaos theory and the science of wholeness b...
Until recently, such phenomena as the volatility of weather systems, the fluctuation of the shock market, or the random firing of neurons in the brain were considered too "noisy" and complex to be probed by science. But now, with the aid of high-speed computers, scientists have been able to... more
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627
| Tawny J. |
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Easter...
After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since the book's first publication,... more
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628
| Tawny J. |
Bodily Changes In Pain, Hunger, Fear And Rage - An Account Of Recent Researches Into ...
BODILY CHANGES IN PAIN, HUNGER, FEAR AND RAGE- AN ACCOUNT OF RECENT RE SEARCHES INTO THE FUNCTION OF EMOTIONAL EXCITEMENT by WALTER B. CANNON. Originally published in 1927. PREFACE: Fear, rage and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower... more
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629
| Tawny J. |
Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature ...
This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, ... more
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631
| Tawny J. |
BK: Behavioral Kinesiology--How to Activate Your Thymus and Increase Your Life Energy...
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632
| Tawny J. |
Your Body Doesn't Lie: Unlock the Power of Your Natural Energy by John Diamond
Your body doesn't lie! You can ask it what's best for your health.
A simple muscle test can tell you what stimuli can strengthen or weaken you -- how your body responds to stress, posture, specific foods, emotions, and your entire social and physical environments. Based on the role of... more
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633
| Tawny J. |
Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions by John ...
This ground breaking material focuses on the psychological aspects of Life Energy. Learn how to assess the level of your Life Energy and determine the specific psychological factors which are interfering with its activation and expression. Here for the first time is a comprehensive explanation... more
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634
| Tawny J. |
The Dhammapada : The Sayings of the Buddha (Sacred Teachings) by Thomas Byrom
The Dhammapada is one of the most popular and accessible books of Buddhist scripture. Undoubtedly one of the greatest teachers in history, the Buddha has had an immeasurable influence on the human race. He taught that our suffering stems from desire and that the only way to remove desire is to... more
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635
| Tawny J. |
Electrographic Imaging in Medicine and Biology by Ion Dumitrescu & Aon Dumitrescu...
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636
| Tawny J. |
Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self by Sir John C. Eccles
Sir John Eccles, distinguished scientist and Nobel prize winner, tells the story of how we came to be. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of biological and cultural evolution, neurological science, education, anthropology, philosophy, religion.
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637
| Tawny J. |
The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith by Gabrielle Bernstein
In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back,New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the book guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for:... more
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638
| Tawny J. |
May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimi...
New York Times Bestseller!
From the popular and exciting author of Spirit Junkie and Add More ~Ing to Your Life comes this practical and fun 40-day guidebook of subtle shifts for radical change and unlimited happiness.
Are you ready to work miracles? Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple,... more
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639
| Tawny J. |
Add More ~ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness by Gabrielle Bernstein
Lots of people are selling happiness these days as if it were a marketable commodity. But in her hip self-transformation book, Add More ~ing to Your Life, motivational speaker and life coach Gabrielle Bernstein truly shows you how to make happiness a way of life. Ms. Bernstein is bringing happy... more
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640
| Tawny J. |
Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein
How does a New York City publicist and party girl turn into a go to guide for the next generation? In her new book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein shares the story of how she transformed her life, offering her spiritual journey as a guidebook for... more
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641
| Tawny J. |
Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your Tr...
Miracles Now by New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein will help readers eliminate stress and find peace?even if they only have a minute to spare. Bernstein knows that most of us don?t have time for an hour of yoga or 30 minutes of meditation, so she has hand-picked 108... more
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642
| Tawny J. |
Self Help: This Is Your Chance to Change Your Life by Gabrielle Bernstein
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643
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Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrie...
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644
| Tawny J. |
Judgment Detox: Release the Beliefs That Hold You Back from Living A Better Life by G...
From featured ?next-generation thought leader? on Oprah Winfrey?s Super Soul 100 and #1 New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step program to rid yourself of the tendency to judge yourself and others, and find your way back to true healing and... more
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645
| Tawny J. |
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams by Gabriel...
Ready to turn what you want into the life that you live? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.
In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential methods for manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams.
This book is a journey of... more
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646
| Tawny J. |
A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner & Joanna Field
How often do we ask ourselves, "What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?" Marion Milner, the author of this remarkable book first published in 1934 under the pseudonym Joanna Field, set herself to grapple with this problem.
Written in the spirit of a detective story... more
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647
| Tawny J. |
Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Treatment of Schizophrenia by David R. Hawkins & Linus...
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648
| Tawny J. |
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins
Analyzing the basic nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science and resolving the most crucial of all human dilemmas: how to instantly determine the truth or... more
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649
| Tawny J. |
William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmati...
"The Varieties of Religious Experience," "Pragmatism," "A Plurialistic Universe," "The Meaning of Truth," "Some Problems of Philosophy," selected essays including addresses on Emerson, the Philippine question, the California earthquake, and the famous "The Moral Equivalent of War." The last... more
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650
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Love Is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald G. Jampolsky
An inspirational classic since 1979, LOVE IS LETTING GO OF FEAR remains one of the seminal works in the transpersonal movement. Psychiatrist Dr. Gerald Jampolsky’s timeless message may be timelier today than ever: the only thing that stands between us and the awesome energy of love is fear.... more
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651
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Aion : Researches into the Phenomonology of the Self (Collected Works of C.G. Jung, V...
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652
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Choose Freedom: Have, Be, & Do Whatever You Will or Desire by Virginia Lloyd
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653
| Tawny J. |
Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness by Frederic Luskin &...
Results from Dr. Fred Luskin's Stanford University Forgiveness Project, one of the largest and most important studies on forgiveness ever conducted, show that learning how to forgive improves our emotional and physical well-being. Holding onto resentment or hurt disrupts our personal and... more
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654
| Tawny J. |
I am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
THE BOOK IS COMPILED OUT OF TALKS GIVEN BY NISARGA DATT MAHARAJ TO VARIOUS VISITORS AND DISCIPLES. VERY POPULAR IN INDIA
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655
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Hinduism and Jungian Psychology by J. Marvin Spiegelman & Arwind U. Vasavada
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656
| Tawny J. |
Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe
The definitive work on the extraordinary phenomenon of out-of-body experiences, by the founder of the internationally known Monroe Institute. Robert Monroe, a Virginia businessman, began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it,... more
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| Tawny J. |
Psychoenergetic Science by William A. Tiller; PH.D
The fourth book in Dr. Tiller s remarkable psychoenergetic science series is an integrator of the first three in much simpler language and with practically no mathematical equations. It has been written for the intellectual level of an undergraduate college student. Here, he shows why and how... more
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660
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The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science b...
Prominent scientists and thinkers present in lay language the leading edge of scientific theory, which demonstrates a remarkable similarity to the great mystical traditions of East and West. Many different investigative currents come together in this volume -- including Pribram’s... more
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661
| Tawny J. |
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
A major novel by the author of Ship Fever, winner of the 1996 National Book Award for Fiction. Part adventure narrative, part love story, this unforgettable novel captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic.... more
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662
| Tawny J. |
Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they... more
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665
| Tawny J. |
The Wrestler's Cruel Study by Stephen Dobyns
It's after midnight. Two gorillas are descending the side of a New York high-rise. Can that be? But this is only the beginning of Stephen Dobyns's dazzling new novel. Part quest (in pattern), part comic book (in tone), and chiefly an exploration of a young man's search for his... more
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666
| Tawny J. |
Lucky Man, Lucky Woman: A Novel by Jack Driscoll
Winner of Pushcart's Seventeenth Annual Editors' Book Award, this first novel about a marriage in crisis has evoked extraordinary praise from readers Pam Houston and Rick Bass. In presenting Lucky Man, Lucky Woman with the Editors' Book Award, publisher Bill Henderson's citation included the... more
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| Tawny J. |
Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail by Leslie Epstein
A hilarious and heartbreaking work of eroticism and longing from one of our great tragicomic writers. Leib Goldkorn, now aged ninety-seven, first appeared almost a quarter-century ago in The Steinway Quintet, which Geoffrey Wolff called "a novella of genius." In Ice Fire Water, Leib moves... more
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668
| Tawny J. |
Divine Days by Leon Forrest
A unanimous chorus of critical acclaim greeted this powerful novel last year?one of the most significant works of African-American fiction since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. This huge oratorio of a novel unfolds over seven days in the life of Joubert Jones, an aspiring playwright making ends... more
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670
| Tawny J. |
Legacies by Starling Lawrence
Starling Lawrence's evocative and subtle stories are about illuminations that alter the course of ordinary lives, about moments where the known world is dissolved in fierce recognition. Whether the characters are young or old, or caught in the middle passages of life, the binding energy in... more
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671
| Tawny J. |
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
In the novel, a young Irish Republican Army operative who wants to break the cycle of violence seeks out a woman whose Ulster policeman husband he helped to murder. As their relationship grows, so do Cal's guilt and sorrow, until, in the end, he is forced to make a sacrifice of himself in... more
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672
| Tawny J. |
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize. In his first novel since Cal, here is a compact, luminous, and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, the celebrated Irish writer Bernard... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Wizard of Loneliness by John Nichols
It's World War II, and young Wendall Oler has been sent to stay with his father's family in rural Stebbinsville, Vermont. Using this opportunity to act out his resentment for the death of his mother and his father's leaving to fight in the war he does all he can to tyrannize his new family.
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675
| Tawny J. |
The Universal Donor by Craig Nova
Bitten by one of the snakes she is studying, Virginia Lee, an accomplished herpetologist, drives herself to the hospital, carrying a decaying antidote and using her pantyhose as a tourniquet to slow the poison's path in her bloodstream. Through the hideous traffic of L.A., she must reach her... more
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676
| Tawny J. |
Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels: Voyage in the Dark / Quartet / After Leaving Mr Macke...
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677
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
This novel declares itself to be the history of Mr. Rochester's first wife--the madwoman in the attic in JANE EYRE, described by Charlotte Bront? only as "a Creole heiress." Rhys was obsessed for years with the first Mrs. Rochester, and finally felt compelled to do justice to the figure to whom... more
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678
| Tawny J. |
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians... more
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679
| Tawny J. |
Arrogance by Joanna Scott
In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe.... more
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680
| Tawny J. |
Dvorak in love: A light-hearted dream by Josef Skvorecky
An exuberant tour de force. ?James Marcus, The Nation Here is a wonderfully imagined picture of a little known period in American musical history. In 1892, at the height of his prodigious powers, Antonin Dvorak was persuaded to leave his native Bohemia to come to New York to be director of the... more
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681
| Tawny J. |
Unified Field Theory (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Frank Soos
The short stories in Unified Field Theory capture characters in the middle of their lives as things fall apart. Jobs, marriages, and hopes disintegrate under people while they seek strategies and explanations. Some look for something larger than themselves, while others get in their cars and... more
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682
| Tawny J. |
After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth, the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger and the bestselling Morality Play, returns in top form with this worldly, bittersweet comedy of manners and morals set in one of Italy's most glorious--and historically treacherous--regions.Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking... more
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| Tawny J. |
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger and the bestselling Morality Play, has long established his genius for both historical narrative and for sharply observed, fantastically odd characters and stories. In Losing Nelson, Unsworth's most brilliantly imagined novel yet... more
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Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winnings Sacred Hunger, turns to 14th-century England with a novel of foul doings in the time of The Name of the Rose.In Morality Play, Barry Unsworth, indisputably the finest writer of literate historical fiction alive today, brings... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
Winner, 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto sax virtuoso of John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins proportions. He also happens to be a walking, talking, philosophizing, Shakespeare- and Blake-quoting, one-woman-loving bear. The scion of a long line of... more
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687
| Tawny J. |
Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins
David R. Hawkins details how anyone may resolve the most crucial of all human dilemmas: how to instantly determine the truth or falsehood of any statement or supposed fact. Dr. Hawkins, who worked as a "healing psychiatrist" during his long and distinguished career, uses theoretical... more
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688
| Tawny J. |
Beyond Happiness: Finding and Fulfilling Your Deepest Desire by Frank J Kinslow
Whether you are a single parent, a CEO, a saint, or a sinner, you will find respite from the chaos of everyday living in this book. Beyond Happiness is a poignant and practical guide to personal inner peace. A lively discussion with helpful analogies and revealing exercises, Beyond Happiness is... more
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689
| Tawny J. |
Choices and Illusions: How Did I Get Where I Am, and How Do I Get Where I Want to Be?...
This fascinating book holds an important key. Whether you?re interested in the science of thinking and beliefs, how your own mind operates, how others control your thoughts, why things just don?t work out for you, how you can create the life you?ve always wanted, how you can realize your true... more
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691
| Tawny J. |
Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself by Lissa Rankin MD
Clinical trials show that up to 80 percent of patients given a placebo heal themselves with the power of the mind alone. But how? There is documented evidence that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body. And this book not only reveals the data from mainstream medical journals; it... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living by Nick Ortner
Nick Ortner, founder of the Tapping World Summit and best-selling filmmaker of The Tapping Solution, is at the forefront of a new healing movement. In his upcoming book, The Tapping Solution, he gives readers everything they need to successfully start using the powerful practice of tapping?or... more
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The Tapping Solution for Manifesting Your Greatest Self: 21 Days to Releasing Self-Do...
Have you ever had the feeling your life just isn?t working? That no matter how much you push and direct, or sit back and let go, the square peg you?re holding just won?t fit into the round hole that is your life?
What if, instead, the roadblocks to transformation went away? What if you could... more
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The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing and Eliminatin...
���� Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Lower back pain alone accounts for more than $50 billion of lost work time and worker?s compensation claims annually. And let?s consider the fact that there are 600,000 knee replacement surgeries performed each year in the United States,... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey... more
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| Tawny J. |
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War?a conflict that lives on in the... more
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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America by Viet Thanh Nguyen
In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple... more
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698
| Tawny J. |
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner in a relationship? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of... more
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699
| Tawny J. |
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book by D...
Featured in the premiere issue of O: The Oprah Magazine and on Oprah's Favorite Things 2000 segment, The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements -- be impeccable with... more
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The Art of Living: A Guide to Contentment, Joy and Fulfillment by Bstan-Dzin-Rgya-Mts...
This beautifully illustrated full color gift book combines the wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama with inspiring images of the Tibetan people, Buddhist monks and nuns, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the stunning landscapes of Nepal and Tibet.
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The Art of Happiness at Work by The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler
From the authors who brought you the million-copy bestseller The Art of Happiness comes an exploration of job, career, and Þnding the ultimate happiness at work. It spent nearly two years on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold well over a million copies in hardcover. It... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is emerging as one of today's most inspiring teachers. In The Power of Now, a #1 national bestseller, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time... more
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703
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Kee...
Is there a science to love?
In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory -- the most advanced relationship science in existence today -- can help us find and sustain love.... more
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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge,...
Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris... more
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705
| Tawny J. |
Queer by William S. Burroughs
In an introduction, Burroughs observes that he wrote this heretofore unpublished picaresque novel in 1951, well before Naked Lunch established his reputation. He reveals that the book had its genesis in a terrible event: his accidental shooting to death of his wife, Joan, a tragedy that released... more
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| Tawny J. |
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protec...
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Clean Green Eats: 100+ Clean Eating Recipes to Improve Your Whole Life by Candice Kum...
Go green, eat clean. In Clean Green Eats, chef, health journalist, and healthy-living expert Candice Kumai offers more than 100 recipes that make clean eating easy, inspiring, and delicious. Her food philosophy is simple: Eat more plants, fewer animals, less dairy, low-sugar, low-gluten,... more
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Cook Yourself Sexy: Easy Delicious Recipes for the Hottest, Most Confident You by Can...
As a former model turned chef, Candice Kumai knows that nothing is sexier than rocking a gorgeous body and enjoying your food. Now, she shows you how to dig in, ditch imitation products for the real thing, and make smart swaps to cut calories without sacrificing flavor. By packing each meal with... more
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710
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Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
A collection of stories which includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
Victory lap... more
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711
| Tawny J. |
All Fours by Miranda July
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.
Miranda July’s second... more
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Excavations by Kate Myers
On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It’s a piece of history that definitely shouldn’t exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something’s gone horribly... more
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