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The Best American Essays 2006ISBN 0618705295 (0-618-70529-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Essays 2006'Book summary:"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes from great pain."[via]
The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In "Missing Bellow," Scott Turow reflects on the death of an author he never met, but one who "overpowered me in a way no other writer had." Adam Gopnik confronts a different kind of death, that of his five-year-old daughter's pet fish -- a demise that churns up nothing less than "the problem of consciousness and the plotline of Hitchock's Vertigo."
A pet is center stage as well in Susan Orlean's witty and compassionate saga of a successful hunt for a stolen border collie. Poe Ballantine chronicles a raw-nerved pilgrimage in search of salvation, solace, and a pretty brunette, and Laurie Abraham, in "Kinsey and Me," journeys after the man who dared to plumb the mysteries of human desire. Marjorie Williams gives a harrowing yet luminous account of her life with cancer, and Michele Morano muses on the grammar of the subjunctive mood while proving that "in language, as in life, moods are complicated, but at least in language there are only two."More editions of The Best American Essays 2006:
Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales For Ordinary Dilemmasby Lauren Slater , Stephanie KnowlesISBN 0393328589 (0-393-32858-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales For Ordinary Dilemmas'Book summary:An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love as revealed by a collection of original fairy tales for adults captures the value of stories and fables in culture as tools of healing and illumination as well as the role of the fairy tale in modern endeavors. By the author of Opening Skinner's Box. 20,000 first pr [via]
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The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Womenby Lauren Slater , Jessica Henderson DanielISBN 0618353518 (0-618-35351-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women'Book summary:An indispensable home reference for women, from the college years to old age The Complete Guide to Mental Health For Women is designed to help women take control of their mental health, whether their concern is a specific disorder or simply the psychological stresses of a life in transition. Within an accessible format that includes tables, charts, and comprehensive lists, over fifty experts provide the most up-to-date information on the entire range of women's mental health issues. Drawing on the latest thinking in psychiatry and psychology, and written for women of diverse backgrounds, this trade reference guide to women's mental health provides a comprehensive and readable overview to the psychological issues that concern women most. Arguing that women want and need to understand their mental health as more than a question of disorder or normality, it begins with the life cycle, helping women understand the major issues and biological changes associated with young adulthood, middle age, and old age. The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women also specifically addresses the psychological importance of women's sexuality and relationships, and discusses how social contexts, such as poverty and racism, affect mental health. [via]
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Love Works Like This : Moving from One Kind of Life to Anotherby Lauren SlaterISBN 0375503765 (0-375-50376-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoirby Lauren SlaterISBN 014200006X (0-14-200006-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir'Book summary:One has good reason to be suspicious of a book that calls itself a "metaphorical memoir." If a metaphor substitutes one thing for another to which it's not ordinarily related, and a memoir relates the personal experiences of the author, then a metaphorical memoir would be... well, lying, if we're going to get technical about it. Or it could be Lying, in which case, hold that judgment and lay all categories aside: here is a book so stunningly contrary it deserves a whole genre to itself.
Lauren Slater may have grown up with epilepsy. Or she may have Munchausen syndrome, "also called factitious illness," also called lying. Or, quite possibly, she has never had any of the above, and all her exquisite evocations of auras and grand mal seizures are merely well-researched symbolic descriptions of her psychic state. In a chapter that's disguised as an extended letter to her editor (and impishly titled "How to Market This Book") she defends her decision to call the work nonfiction:
Why is what we feel less true than what is? Supposing I simply feel like an epileptic, a spastic person, one with a shivering brain; supposing I have chosen epilepsy because it is the most accurate conduit to convey my psyche to you? Would this not still be a memoir, my memoir?
Slater is peering down a slippery slope here, and for all its manifest brilliance, the pyrotechnics of its prose, reading Lying can be an unnerving experience--sort of like hanging out with a compulsive liar, actually. (It's no help to find out that "after all, a lot, or at least some, or at least a few, of the literal facts are accurate.")But if Slater is playing with our heads, she's not doing so for fashionable postmodern reasons. Lying's bag of tricks emerges from some complex and deeply felt ideas about form, reality, and consciousness itself--and what's more, it's an extraordinary memoir, "true" or not. A field full of nuns, their windblown habits tipping them over into the snow; an electric brain stimulator that makes a patient see colors and taste her own words; Slater rolling in mounds of Barbadian sugar and then running back to her mother, coated like candy--who cares whether any of these actually happened? In the end, Lying is fundamentally true, just as a great novel or indeed any great work of art is true: in a way that has nothing to do with fact. --Mary Park [via]
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Opening Skinner's Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Centuryby Lauren SlaterISBN 0393050955 (0-393-05095-5)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opening Skinner's Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Century'Book summary:Documents the drama of extraordinary inquiries into human psychology, bringing to life stories with unforgettable protagonists. LAUREN SLATER delivers a witty and stunningly perceptive view of the progress of the science of the human mind in the last century. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, she takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing recreation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. We observe cognitive dissonance among cult members whose apocalypse fails to arrive, and we see the groundwork being laid for a pill that promises to rescue the memories of aging baby boomers. Through nine examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers. Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns--free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme. [via]
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The Twentieth Centuryby Lauren SlaterISBN 0393326551 (0-393-32655-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments Of The Twentieth Century'Book summary:Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns-free will, authoritarianism, conformity, morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, she takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, full of plot, wit, personality, and theme. [via]
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Prozac Diaryby Lauren SlaterISBN 0140263942 (0-14-026394-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Welcome to My Countryby Lauren SlaterISBN 014025465X (0-14-025465-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patientsby Lauren SlaterISBN 0385487398 (0-385-48739-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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- Welcome to My Country : Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0241136385 (0-241-13638-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0517280078 (0-517-28007-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0609000462 (0-609-00046-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0679447857 (0-679-44785-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0385487398 (0-385-48739-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Welcome to My Country : Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients: ISBN 0241136385 (0-241-13638-5)
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