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  • Death, Distress, and Solidarity

    Special Issue "OMEGA Journal of Death and Dying"

    In preparing this special issue of "Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying" - we choose to consider solidarity in a somewhat larger perspective than the other one usually adopted by a clear majority of social support studies. This perspective gives priority to microscopic, immediate, direct transactions between a focal individual - the one affected by the prospect of soon to come death and two ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Death, Society, and Human Experience

    The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Dorian Graying

    Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?

    Series series Society and Aging Series
    In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding to the pressures of modernization by attempting to escape the natural progression of time. Next we ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Normal

    Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    **The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.**In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Why Not?

    Fifteen Reasons to Live

    by Ray Robertson ...
    crosses genres, and will appeal to a wide audience: self-help, literary, essays, philosophy, psychologyauthor suffers from serious depression related to OCD. This book came out of a suicidal period, when he came up with a list of fifteen reasons why he should not kill himself. Or, more optimistically, fifteen reasons to live. They range from Love and Work to Intoxication, and, paradoxically, death ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    Close Encounters with Addiction

    A groundbreaking look at addiction and recovery from the bestselling author of The Myth of Normal—the modern self-help classic that reframes everything you were taught about trauma and substance abuseAddictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. In In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, world-renowned physician and trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté offers a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure

    Read Catherine Blyth's posts on the Penguin Blog.Reclaim the pleasures and possibilities of great conversation with this sparkling guide from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise to its artEvery day we use cell phones and computers to communicate, but it's easy to forget that we possess a communication technology that has been in research and development for thousands of years. Catherine Blyth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Drunk

    How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

    An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised).While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Art of Character

    Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV

    by David Corbett ...
    Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization-from initial inspiration to realization-with special insights into the power of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Why We Dream

    The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

    by Alice Robb ...
    A science journalist explores the latest research on dreams—how they work, what they're for, and how we can reap the benefits.While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming—the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they're dreaming and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both puzzling and exhilarating, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakfast with Socrates

    An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

    What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Crazy Like Us

    The Globalization of the American Psyche

    by Ethan Watters ...
    “A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson).In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD