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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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The Analystby John KatzenbachISBN 0345426274 (0-345-42627-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Analyst'Book summary:Penzler Pick, February 2002: This thriller from the author of Hart's War is addictive. Analyst Dr. Frederick Starks has just turned 53 and, on his birthday, receives a letter informing him that he has ruined the letter-writer's life and now his own life is about to be ruined.
Starks must solve a riddle, he is told. He must find out whose life he ruined within two weeks. If he does not, he must kill himself. If he does not kill himself, then those nearest and dearest to him will be killed. The letter is signed, Rumpelstiltskin. At first Starks is dismissive--but he does call relatives to see that they are all right. Not all of them are. In fact Starks is convinced that the letter writer is deadly serious when he discovers how the birthday of his 14-year-old great-niece was ruined. He must now engage in the game or be responsible for the lives of others.
While he works frantically to try and unlock the past and find whose life he could possibly have ruined, Rumpelstiltskin is also busy. Within hours of receiving that first shattering letter, one of Dr. Starks's patients throws himself under a subway train, though Starks knows the patient was not suicidal.
When the police tell him that a couple and a homeless woman saw the man jump, Starks tries to find them. He finds only the homeless woman, who tells him that she was given money by the couple to tell what she witnessed. Starks is certain that Rumpelstiltskin must be one of the couple, but he's wrong. It's even more sinister than that, and when he meets the accomplices, he realizes that his adversary has been planning his revenge for years.
Soon, Starks's life is spiraling downward. There is nothing hidden from Rumpelstiltskin. His credit cards, his bank accounts, his patients, his homes in Manhattan and in Massachusetts, his reputation--nothing and no one is safe as Starks races against time as his world shrinks and his options run out. The clock is ticking as he hunts a ruthless psychopath who always seems to be one step ahead of him. As Starks tries to figure out what to do besides react to his life spinning out of control, he uses his training, his dwindling resources, and every weapon available to him to combat this relentless and deadly foe. --Otto Penzler [via]
The Art of Negotiatingby Gerard NierenbergISBN 0346122724 (0-346-12272-4)
Softcover, Cornerstone Library
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Bad Loveby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460723 (0-345-46072-3)
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Billy Straightby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345413865 (0-345-41386-5)
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Blood Testby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345466616 (0-345-46661-6)
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The Book for Normal Neuroticsby Allan FrommeISBN 0374115443 (0-374-11544-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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Call It Sleep: A Novelby Henry RothISBN 0374118191 (0-374-11819-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call It Sleep: A Novel'Book summary:When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the dangerously imaginative child coming of age in the slums of New York.[via]More editions of Call It Sleep: A Novel:
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The Cancer Biopathyby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374118361 (0-374-11836-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cancer Biopathy'Book summary:A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual Starvation[via]
What is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising spontaneously in an otherwise healthy organism. In contrast, Wilhelm Reich defines cancer not as a tumor--the tumor is merely a late manifestation of the disease--but a systemic disease due to chronic thwaring of natural sexual functioning. In this radically different scientific investigation of a process that ends, literally, in the putrefaction of the living body due to chronic suffocatin of the tissues, Reich has arrived at the conclusion that "cancer is the most significant somatic expression of biophysiological effect of sexual stasis." If this is so, there is a far greater possibility for prevention of cancer than for its treatment.
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Citadel on the Mountainby Richard WertimeISBN 0374123780 (0-374-12378-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Clinicby Jonathan KellermanISBN 034546074X (0-345-46074-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Cold Heartby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452569 (0-345-45256-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cold Heart'Book summary:In Cold Heart, the latest thriller from bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, Dr. Alex Delaware picks up on clues missed even by his closest friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. Leave it to this canny shrink to figure out that the only thing two otherwise unconnected murder victims have in common (they're both artists making comebacks after early career burnouts) may hold the key to their deaths. Even for Alex, this unlikely link is a stretch, especially since Baby Boy Lee was stabbed outside a nightclub and Julie Kipper was bludgeoned in the bathroom of an art gallery. But when a concert pianist dies on the eve of his greatest triumph, Alex is sure that the murders are not only the work of the same killer but also connected to the unsolved slayings of a Boston ballerina and an L.A. rock singer. By an even greater coincidence, two of the victims were tangentially involved with Alex's former lover, Robin Castagna, which provides the good doctor a few well placed paragraphs to ruminate on what went wrong in their romance as well as rescue her from the serial murderer who's targeted her as his next victim.
As usual, Kellerman manages to make even a far-fetched plot like this one ring true, but after 17 Alex Delaware mysteries, his series protagonist holds few surprises for the reader, who longs for something to shake Dr. D. out of his smooth complacency. Losing Robin didn't do it--maybe the new woman in Alex's life will. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Concise Book of Lyingby Evelin SullivanISBN 0374128685 (0-374-12868-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concise Book of Lying'Book summary:With lively wit and breezy sophistication, novelist Evelin Sullivan tackles the most pervasive of human sins, using history and mythology, anecdote and analysis to discover the truth about lying. Beginning with the nature and characterization of deception in ancient texts from the Bible to Greek myth, Sullivan asks why people lie; what makes an effective lie; what are its consequences; and how has society tried to counteract human deception. Touching on philosophy, literature, history, and psychology, The Concise Book of Lying is a stylish and erudite tour of the twilight realm of trickery. [via]
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The Conspiracy Clubby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452585 (0-345-45258-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Control of Natureby John McPheeISBN 0374128901 (0-374-12890-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Control of Nature'Book summary:Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters. [via]
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CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, And About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADDby Edward HallowellISBN 0345482433 (0-345-48243-3)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handing Your Fast-Paced Lifeby Edward HallowellISBN 0345482441 (0-345-48244-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translationby David L. Hall, Roger T. AmesISBN 0345444191 (0-345-44419-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation'Book summary:In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the worlds most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. [via]More editions of Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation:
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Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translationby Roger T. Ames, David L. HallISBN 0345444159 (0-345-44415-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translation'Book summary:Composed more than 2,000 years ago during a turbulent period of Chinese history, the Dao de jing set forth an alternative vision of reality in a world torn apart by violence and betrayal. Daoism, as this subtle but enduring philosophy came to be known, offers a comprehensive view of experience grounded in a full understanding of the wonders hidden in the ordinary. Now in this luminous new translation, based on the recently discovered ancient bamboo scrolls, China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world.
Though attributed to Laozi, the Old Master, the Dao de jing is, in fact, of unknown authorship and may well have originated in an oral tradition four hundred years before the time of Christ. Eschewing philosophical dogma, the Dao de jing set forth a series of maxims that outlined a new perspective on reality and invited readers to embark on a regimen of self-cultivation. In the Daoist world view, each particular element in our experience sends out an endless series of ripples throughout the cosmos. The unstated goal of the Dao de jing is self-transformationthe attainment of personal excellence that flows from the world and back into it. Responding to the teachings of Confucius, the Dao de jing revitalizes moral behavior by recommending a spontaneity made possible by the cultivated habits of the individual.
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. The books extensive introduction is a model of accessible scholarship in which Ames and Hall consider the origin of the text, place the emergence of Daoist philosophy in its historical and political context, and outline its central tenets.
The Dao de jing is a work of timeless wisdom and beauty, as vital today as it was in ancient China. This new version will stand as both a compelling introduction to the complexities of Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. [via]More editions of Dao de Jing : A Philosophical Translation:
Depression: What Families Should Knowby Elaine Fantle ShimbergISBN 0345410238 (0-345-41023-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Devil's Larderby Jim CraceISBN 0374138591 (0-374-13859-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Larder'Book summary:In The Devil's Larder, Jim Crace has put together an odd and artful little volume that encompasses more of the human experience than it really ought to, given its size and scope. Crace presents us with 64 short fictions about food, which add up to a picture of life that is at once diabolical and innocent, creepily sexualized and free of judgment. In one fable, a mother and her small daughter twist their tongues together, ferreting out the food in each other's mouths: they want to know if food tastes the same from another person's tongue. A game of strip fondue ends with guests covered in burns where the molten cheese has fallen onto their naked flesh. "A gasp of pain. The whiff of sizzling flesh and hair and cheese." Flesh and cheese, that's the stuff. Crace shows us the odd outer limits of desire, and revels in the sheer weirdness of the daily act of eating. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Dreaming by the Bookby Elaine ScarryISBN 0374143986 (0-374-14398-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Ether God and Devilby Wilhelm ReichISBN 0374149070 (0-374-14907-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ether God and Devil'Book summary:Dust Jacket intact with with several edge/corner chips/tears and scuffing. No markings/notations. Spine/binding tight and pages in good cond. [via]
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The Feeling Child.by Arthur JanovISBN 0349118329 (0-349-11832-9)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feeling Child.'Book summary:Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. An Armistead Maupin for the real world, she has the gift of assembling a huge and irresistible cast of freaks and wonders, while remaining faithful to her hard core of friends and fans: those glamorous, rebellious, crazy single women, too close to forty, who are trying hard not to turn from the Audrey Hepburn of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S into the Glen Close of FATAL ATTRACTION, and are - still - looking for love. [via]
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Flesh and Bloodby Jonathan KellermanISBN 034541389X (0-345-41389-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flesh and Blood'Book summary:Psychologist Alex Delaware hasn't been in private practice for a long time, but when the mother of a former patient calls and asks for his help, he can't turn her down. He couldn't help Lauren Teague when she was alive, but something about his failure with the beautiful, sullen teenager who grew up to be a high-priced call girl won't let him walk away after her bullet-ridden body turns up in an L.A. dumpster. When she wasn't turning tricks, she was a straight-A student; despite his detective pal Milo's demurral, Alex is convinced there's a connection between Lauren's death and another beautiful UCLA psych major who disappeared a year earlier. With his customary skill and compassion, Jonathan Kellerman draws us deep into Lauren's complicated life, from a university campus to a Malibu estate owned by a wealthy publisher of soft-core porn (who bears a distinct resemblance to the pajama-clad mogul who made a small white bunny famous).
Kellerman's last couple of books have been a bit disappointing, but here the bestselling author is writing up to the high standard he set in his earlier ones. With solid plotting, well-realized characterizations, and a strong narrative drive, Flesh and Blood delivers the real goods on every page. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyronby Roger ShattuckISBN 0374157553 (0-374-15755-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus Giroux
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The Forbidden Zoneby Michael LesyISBN 0374157561 (0-374-15756-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0345418271 (0-345-41827-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....
Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellersby Marina WarnerISBN 0374159017 (0-374-15901-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers'Book summary:One dare not even call it seminal, yet in this ground-breaking work, English novelist and historian Marina Warner casts herself as the female Joseph Campbell in a fascinating and lively book that opens with the observation that "storytelling makes women thrive -- and not exclusively women," and then lifts the veil on both tellers and tales ranging from Sibyl to the late, great Angela Carter, from Lot's daughters to Disney's "Little Mermaid." She finds a not-so-hidden history of women, sex, power, fear -- and even healing -- lurking therein. An eye-opening reworking of our common myth pool. [via]
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Gatewayby Frederick PohlISBN 0345475836 (0-345-47583-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gateway'Book summary:Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One:GATEWAY
Book Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE
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Give Your Child a Superior Mind: A Program for the Preschool Childby Siegfried Engelmann, Therese EngelmannISBN 0346125324 (0-346-12532-4)
Softcover, Cornerstone Library
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Goneby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345452623 (0-345-45262-3)
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Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Recommended Books for Girls Ages 3-14by Kathleen OdeanISBN 0345450213 (0-345-45021-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0374102570 (0-374-10257-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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In the Dark of the Nightby John SaulISBN 034548701X (0-345-48701-X)
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foodby Stewart Lee AllenISBN 0345440161 (0-345-44016-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food'Book summary:Lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods offers a high-spirited look at the way foods over time have been forbidden, even criminalized, for their "evil" effects. Food has often been, shockingly, morally weighted, from the tomato, originally called the love apple and thought to excite lust; to the potato, whose popularity in Ireland led British Protestants to associate it with sloth; to foods like corn or bread whose use was once believed to delineate "lowness," thus inflaming class pride. Allen's approach to this incredible history also includes tales of personal journeys to, for example, a Mount Athos monastery, where a monk reveals the sign of Satan in an apple, and to San Francisco to investigate dog eating. If his history is sometimes too glancing and facetious, even beyond the sensible need to entertain, it is always fascinating.
The book also features "forbidden" menus--such as the one devoted to gluttony that includes an entire steer stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a chicken, and served with sausages--and quite doable and delicious recipes, such as a dynamite hot and sweet banana ketchup and Lo Han Jai, a mushroom-replete vegetarian feast. But the real focus is on the human response to a primal pleasure--eating--and the way people have sought to control it, in every society and every culture, through prohibition. It's quite a tale. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Institute of Fools: Notes from the Serbskyby Marco Carynnyk, Viktor Nekipelov, Marta Horban, TSentralnyi nauchno-issledovatelskii institut sudebnoi psikhiatrii im. prof SerbskogoISBN 0374177031 (0-374-17703-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Rules Israelby Jonathan KirschISBN 0345435052 (0-345-43505-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Rules Israel'Book summary:The difficulty of bringing into perspective figures who are larger than life is well known to Jonathan Kirsch, author of a life of Moses and of the provocative Biblical study The Harlot by the Side of the Road. In his well-researched narrative Kirsch brings King David, arguably the most important figure in the entire Jewish Bible, into relief. In searching for the "real" King David, Kirsch does not claim to bring new information to his study. he is more journalist than Biblical scholar, and clearly acknowledges when he is speculating (as, for example, in his reconstruction of the scene in which David first glimpses the beautiful Bathsheba). Rather, he chooses to remind his readers that David is not myth but flesh and blood--and is, astonishingly, presented this way in the biblical texts themselves. Kirsch's David is real, human, both heroic and flawed.
Following much of modern religious scholarship which sees the Bible as "a patchwork of ancient texts that were composed and compiled by countless authors and editors," this study may not appeal to more fundamentalist readers; butit is not intended for scholars. It should, however, satisfy many readers who wish to explore more deeply the pertinent and picaresque life of a very real man, a charismatic leader who, as one historian puts it, "played exquisitely, fought heroically and loved titanically." --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Last Loversby William WhartonISBN 0374183899 (0-374-18389-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Lovers'Book summary:In Last Lovers, William Wharton gives us his most intimate look yet at the ways each of us can be drawn away from love, creativity, and innocence, and at the forces that, when we are lucky, bring us back.[via]More editions of Last Lovers:
Lost in the Forestby Sue MillerISBN 0345469593 (0-345-46959-3)
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Majoring in the Rest of Your Lifeby Carol CarterISBN 0374199221 (0-374-19922-1)
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Making Peace With Your Parents: The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationshipsby Leonard Felder, Harold BloomfieldISBN 0345410475 (0-345-41047-5)
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
No matter how old you are and whether or not your parents are alive, you have to come to terms with them. This wise and practical book will show you how to deal with the most fundamental relationships in your life and, in the process, become the happy, creative, and fulfilled person you are meant to be. [via]More editions of Making Peace With Your Parents: The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships:
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The Man Who Fell to Earthby Walter TevisISBN 0345431618 (0-345-43161-8)
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A Memory of Warby Frederick BuschISBN 0345460510 (0-345-46051-0)
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0374199698 (0-374-19969-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." & I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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A Model Childhoodby Christa WolfISBN 0374211701 (0-374-21170-1)
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Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problemsby Michael Thompson, Lawrence J. Cohen, Catherine O'Neill GraceISBN 0345450116 (0-345-45011-6)
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Murray Kash's Book of Countryby Murray KashISBN 035230443X (0-352-30443-X)
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Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedyby David AbrahamsenISBN 0374222754 (0-374-22275-4)
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The Other Side of Youby Salley VickersISBN 0374221901 (0-374-22190-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of You'Book summary:[via]For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. David McBride, death exerts an unusual draw. Despite his profession, he has never come to terms with the violent accident that took his brothers life, a trauma that has shaped his personality and subsequent choice of career. But when a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, comes into his care, he finds the deepest reaches of his suppressed history being reactivated. Elizabeth is mysteriously reticent about her own past and it is not until David recalls a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio that she finally yields her story. As she recounts the chance encounter which took her to Rome, and her tragic tale of passion and betrayal, David begins to find a strange and disturbing reflection of his own loss in the haunted other side of this elusive woman. Through one long nights dialogue they journey together into a past which brings painful new insight and uncertain resolution to each of them.The Other Side of You is a powerful meditation on art, and on love in all its manifestations. In distinctive, graceful prose, Salley Vickers explores the ways both love and art can penetrate the complexities of the human heart, to invade and change our being, and the possibilities of regeneration through anothers vision and understanding.More editions of The Other Side of You:
Over the Edgeby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345466624 (0-345-46662-4)
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Private Eyesby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460707 (0-345-46070-7)
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Quickeningby Laura Catherine BrownISBN 034543773X (0-345-43773-X)
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Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit in- When to Worry and When Not to Worryby Perri Klass, Eileen CostelloISBN 0345451430 (0-345-45143-0)
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Rageby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345467078 (0-345-46707-8)
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About Itby Mindy FulliloveISBN 0345454235 (0-345-45423-5)
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Self-Defenseby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345458834 (0-345-45883-4)
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderersby Harold SchechterISBN 0345465660 (0-345-46566-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers'Book summary:THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORYS MOST HEINOUS!
Hollywoods make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter cant hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderersfrom psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, trophies to trading cards. Discover:
WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mamas boy who inspired fictions most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh
HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here.
WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for companionship. For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because such men are monsters, who live . . .
beyond the frontiers of madness.
PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more.
For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating. [via]More editions of The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers:
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violenceby Donald Seaman, Colin WilsonISBN 0352326255 (0-352-32625-5)
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Sex and the Supernatural: Sexuality in Religion and Magicby Benjamin WalkerISBN 035603464X (0-356-03464-X)
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Silent Partnerby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460685 (0-345-46068-5)
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Solitaire Chessby I. H. HorowitzISBN 0346123305 (0-346-12330-5)
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Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom : Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriageby Kendall TaylorISBN 0345447166 (0-345-44716-6)
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Soul Psychology: How to Clear Negative Emotions and Spiritualize Your Lifeby Joshua David StoneISBN 0345425561 (0-345-42556-1)
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The Speed of Darkby Elizabeth MoonISBN 0345447549 (0-345-44754-9)
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Sphereby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345418972 (0-345-41897-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sphere'Book summary:Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir Travels knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn. Sphere is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton's keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton's fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you're staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don't blink first. [via]
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A Tribe Apartby Patricia HerschISBN 034543594X (0-345-43594-X)
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The Undercover Economistby Tim HarfordISBN 0345494016 (0-345-49401-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Undercover Economist'Book summary:Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make. [via]
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United Burger States of Americaby Peter BiddlecombeISBN 0349115206 (0-349-11520-6)
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The Virtues of Agingby Jimmy CarterISBN 0345425928 (0-345-42592-8)
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0345472403 (0-345-47240-3)
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Wayward Mind : An Intimate History of the Unconsciousby Guy ClaxtonISBN 0349116547 (0-349-11654-7)
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The Webby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345460731 (0-345-46073-1)
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When the Bough Breaksby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345466608 (0-345-46660-8)
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While I Was Goneby Sue MillerISBN 0345420748 (0-345-42074-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'While I Was Gone'Book summary:In her still startling debut, The Good Mother, Sue Miller explored the premium we put on passion--and the terrible burden it places on a mother and child. Her fourth novel, While I Was Gone, is another study in familial crime and punishment. But this time, her wife and good mother is accessory to more than emotional malfeasance. Jo Becker has everything a woman could desire: a loving spouse, contented children, and a nice dog or two. When her New England veterinary practice takes on a new client, however, her past comes back to haunt her. Long ago, it seems, Jo had escaped her family and identity for a commune in Cambridge. Her Aquarian illusions came to an abrupt, bloody end when one of her housemates was brutally murdered.
Now this unhappy era returns in the person of Eli Mayhew, who had been the odd man out in Jo's boho household. His appearance is both tantalizing and upsetting: "Inside, I slowed down. I felt numbed. I had two last patients, and then I told Beattie to go home, that I'd close up.... I refiled the last charts, sprayed and wiped the examining table. I reviewed my list of routine surgeries for Wednesday. All the while I was thinking of Eli Mayhew, and of Dana and Larry and Duncan and me, and our lives in the house. Of the horrible way it had all ended." Sue Miller's fine novel is a penetrating--and sensuous--portrait of a woman besieged by her conscience. While I Was Gone also demonstrates that in the face of distance and betrayal, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing indeed. --Winnie Wheaton [via]
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A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0345424719 (0-345-42471-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Conditionby Edward M. HallowellISBN 0345424581 (0-345-42458-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Condition'Book summary:As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem plain old existential--stemming from broken trust or loss of faith. But worry is uniquely human. "To create worry," Dr. Hallowell writes, "humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well."
Illustrating his theories with the personal stories of and dialogues with clients, Hallowell provides a full picture of the ordinary yet chronic worry-problems. Thus, each presenting problem is dramatically rendered, and the ensuing therapies practically understood. Hallowell emphasizes the physical, not the psychological aspect of worrying, which helps stop the cycle of self-blame many worriers are prone to. When worry is no longer identified as a lack of moral courage, for example, but a natural phenomenon, it can begin to be managed.
The steps set forth in Worry: Controlling and Using It Wisely are practical and straightforward. First comes awareness, which, over time, sets the stage for new patternmaking in the brain. An entire chapter is devoted to methods of running interventions on worry without medication. Worry offers an articulate and powerful reframe of a debilitating condition that's as old as the human brain. By releasing the deeply entrenched habit of negativity, a worrier can step out of the cycle, and freed from phobia, move ahead. [via]
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Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voiceby Tobin Simon, Linda Trichter MetcalfISBN 0345438582 (0-345-43858-2)
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