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Social Scientists and Psychologists


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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by C G Jung
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In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the... (read more)

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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
by Lynne Twist
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This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money—earning it, spending it, and giving it away—can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity. Lynne Twist, a global... (read more)

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Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian
Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian
by Bernard Lewis
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary life After September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went... (read more)

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Love Shrinks
Love Shrinks
by Sharyn Wolf
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For twenty years, Sharyn Wolf, a practicing psychotherapist and "relationship expert," has helped revitalize the marriages of countless couples. But while she was being interviewed on Oprah and 48 hours to talk about her nationally bestselling books that... (read more)

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Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul
by Claire Dunne
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Fifty years after his death, Carl Jung's revolutionary theories still attract and fascinate readers, as shown by the bestselling success of the recently published illuminated volume The Red Book. This critically acclaimed biography does full justice to... (read more)

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The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
by Elisabeth Kubler-ross
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On Life and Living Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing... (read more)

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Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle
Analyzing Freud: The Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle
by H D
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-594) and index.... (read more)

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
by Sylvia Nasar
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In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s the epic story of the making of modern... (read more)

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Out of Place: A Memoir
Out of Place: A Memoir
by Edward W Said
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From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and... (read more)

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Marx for Beginners
Marx for Beginners
by Rius
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Marx for Beginners describes the origins and evolution of all those rabble-rousing notions about capital, labor, the proletariat, the bourgeoisie, class struggle, socialism--everything that went into making The Communist Manifesto one of the landmark... (read more)

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Shining Affliction (95 Edition)
Shining Affliction (95 Edition)
by Annie G. Rogers
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"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactlty what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."—The Los Angeles Times.... (read more)

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The Measure of My Days
The Measure of My Days
by Flori Scott Maxwell
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Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate... (read more)

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Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
by Carol Faulkner
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Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant... (read more)

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Explorer of the Mind: The Biography of Sigmund Freud
Explorer of the Mind: The Biography of Sigmund Freud
by Ruth Sheppard
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Sigmund Freud, the “Father of Psychoanalysis,” remains a towering figure even 73 years after his death. His development of such therapeutic innovations as the “talking cure,” free association, and dream interpretation revolutionized... (read more)

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Freud
Freud
by Jonathan Lear
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of psychology. He also made profound insights into the psychology and understanding of human beings. In this brilliant... (read more)

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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
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Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious... (read more)

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In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History
by Michael Shermer
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Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael... (read more)

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Mens Et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows
Mens Et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows
by Samuel Jay Keyser
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When Jay Keyser arrived at MIT in 1977 to head theDepartment ofLinguistics and Philosophy, he writes, he felt like a fishthat had been introducedto water for the first time. At MIT, acolleague grabbed him by the lapels todiscuss dark matter; Noam Chomsky... (read more)

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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
by Francis W. Hirst
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A biography of Adam Smith (1723-1790), author of The Wealth of Nations, including sections on "The Beginning Of A Career, " "Theology & Religious Establishments, " and "Glasgow & Its University" (and an index). Francis W. Hirst (1873-1953) was a... (read more)

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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
by Don Lattin
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Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.... (read more)

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