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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh  
Powells.com Staff Pick 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...
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron Publisher Comments A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic...
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin Publisher Comments Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and...
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness
by Elyn R. Saks
Publisher Comments Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and...
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My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician
by Lon Milo Duquette Synopsis Not since The Confessions of Aleister Crowley has a true magician told his own story. My Life with the Spirits is a rare glimpse into the fascinating, sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious world of a modern ceremonial magician. Hailed by critics as...
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Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism
by Donna Williams Publisher Comments In the acclaimed sequel to Nobody Nowhere--in which Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism--Williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her "world under glass" and live normally. NPR...
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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
by Lynne Twist Publisher Comments A wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life. THIS COMPELLING AND FUNDAMENTALLY liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money--earning it, spending it, and giving it away--can offer...
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Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
by Brenda Maddox Publisher Comments The saturation of the English-speaking world with psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud’s disciple, colleague, and biographer-and the man who rescued Freud from the Nazis-he led the international...
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The Essential John Nash
by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar Publisher Comments When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John...
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An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
by Fuad I. Khuri Publisher Comments For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them—and him—laugh....
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Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis (06 Edition)
by Janine Burke Publisher Comments 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...
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The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
by Mark Skousen Synopsis Noted financial writer and commentator Mark Skousen traces the development of modern economic science through engaging accounts of the lives and contributions of every major economist over the past 225 years....
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Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
by Jane Addams Publisher Comments In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. Addams's inspiring...
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Mother Jones : the Most Dangerous Woman in America (01 Edition)
by Elliot Gorn Publisher Comments Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad...
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
by Peter Gay Synopsis "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas" (J. Anthony Lukas), this "remarkable biography . . . briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively...
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Marx for Beginners
by Rius Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156)....
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False Self: The Life of Masud Khan
by Linda Hopkins Publisher Comments Winner of a 2007 Gradiva Award and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship The definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis. Notorious for his flamboyant personality and, at first, widely acknowledged as...
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Holding the Man
by Timothy Conigrave Synopsis From the land of Down Under comes this true story about a male high school drama student who falls in love with the captain of the football team. Winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Nonfiction, HOLDING THE MAN has been adapted into a play...
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The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize:
by Peter Doherty Synopsis From veterinary student to Nobel Laureate--a renowned scientist recounts a life in science that led to a Novel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his influential work on T-cells and the nature of immune defense....
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Wilhelm Reich: Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist
by Robert S Corrington Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-285) and index....
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