Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud
Stefan Zweig, Paul Cedar, Eden Paul and Man Ray
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Stefan's Zweig Mental Healers is a triple biography of Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund...
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity
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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man...
Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed
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"COMPELLING". (The Sunday Telegraph). "CONTROVERSIAL ...Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed...
Hitler's Paratrooper: The Life and Battles of Rudolf Witzig
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Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium's supposedly impregnable...
The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away...
biography travel
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...
biography psychology
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
Vladimir Nabokov and Gennady Barabtarlo
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Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context...
biography psychology
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an...
biography
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time
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Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal...