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In the Arms of Morpheus
by Barbara Hodgson
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- Used - Very Good
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- 2001-10
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- 9781552975404
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The follow-up to the widely praised Opium, In The Arms of Morpheus is the shocking story of how a simple but bewitching substance, touted as a miracle drug, enslaved unwitting generations of 19th century writers, artists and ordinary citizens. Extracted from opium, the sap of the poppy, this popular drug was welcomed into the homes of rich and poor alike,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sexual Symbolism
by Richard Payne Knight
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- 1957
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€28.28
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Characterized by a systematic approach that holds up remarkably well even today, this book has served as a foundation for numerous subsequent studies. As anthropologist Ashley Montagu notes, Knight's eighteenth-century work combines seriousness of purpose with ingenuity and wit. Its companion piece, Wright's nineteenth-century survey, ranges even further in scope, embracing the worship of the female as well as of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
by Patrick House
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- Used - Good
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- Fair
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- 2022
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- Some marginalia and underlining
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- 9781250151179
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€15.08
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Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. Consciousness — the awareness of our own and others' existence — has eluded explanation.
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness offers a brilliant overview of the state of modern consciousness research in twenty brief, revealing chapters. Neuroscientist and author… Read more about this item Item Price
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Blood Rites
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1997
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- 9780805050776
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€9.42
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In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Sifting through… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cultish
by Amanda Montell
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 2022
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- Some marginalia and underlining
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- 9780062993151
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Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities "cultish," revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven's Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and… Read more about this item Item Price
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We Were Eight Years in Power
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- October
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- 9780399590566
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We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates's iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including "Fear of a Black President," "The Case for Reparations," and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration," along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Sociopath Next Door
by Martha Stout
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- March 14, 2006
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- 9780767915823
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We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
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- 9781476740195
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On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than… Read more about this item Item Price
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Loitering: New and Collected Essays
by Charles D'Ambrosio
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- 2014-11
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- 9781935639879
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Charles D'Ambrosio's essay collection Orphans spawned something of a cult following. In the decade since the tiny limited-edition volume sold out its print run, its devotees have pressed it upon their friends, students, and colleagues, only to find themselves begging for their copy's safe return. For anyone familiar with D'Ambrosio's writing, this enthusiasm should come as no surprise. His work… Read more about this item Item Price
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Salvador
by Joan Didion
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- Used - Good
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- Good-
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- March 1983
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- Ex-library
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- 9780671470241
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Salvador is a 1983 nonfiction book by Joan Didion on American involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War. Most of the book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The New York Review of Books in November and December 1982. Item Price
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The Wayfinders
by Wade Davis
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- 2009-10
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- Ex-library
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- 9780887847660
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the worlds indigenous cultures.
In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Art of Thinking
by Ernest Dimnet
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- Used - Fair
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- 1930
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- Previous owner inscription
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€14.14
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Journey into the realm of introspection and intellectual growth with 'The Art of Thinking'. While once a prominent figure alongside self-help guru Dale Carnegie in the 1930s, Jacques Maritain's masterpiece has regrettably faded from memory. Unearthed from obscurity, this book beckons readers to engage in true contemplation rather than superficial ruminations. Maritain unveils the power of focused thought, offering practical… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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- 2013-04
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- 9780374533557
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of… Read more about this item Item Price
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If The War Goes On
by Hermann Hesse
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- 1971
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A collection of essays from Hermann Hesse concerning World War II, his personal anguish and his antagonism to racism, nationalism and war. Item Price
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Buried Alive
by Jan Bondeson
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- March 2002
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- 9780393322224
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Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales--just think of --may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
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- 2012-09
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- 9781455523474
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On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
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- 2018
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- 9780807047415
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€7.07
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Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo first coined the term "white fragility" in 2011, and since then it's been invoked by critics from Samantha Bee to Charles Blow. "White fragility" refers to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially. These include emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors including argumentation and silence. In this book, DiAngelo unpacks… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- November 9, 2021
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- 9780374157357
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or generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
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- Used - Fair
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- Good
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- 1987
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- Ex-library
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- 9780670806058
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Bruce Chatwin—author of In Patagonia—ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aborginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious Aboriginal holy men, he discovers a wondrous vision of man's place in the world. Item Price
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How To Be An Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 2019
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- 9780525509288
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€8.48
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Ibram X. Kendi's concept of anti-racism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America — but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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