Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a...
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The Adventures of Form and Content: Essays
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An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, "a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart"...
Vagueness in Psychiatry
Geert Keil, Lara Keuck and Rico Hauswald
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In psychiatry there is no sharp boundary between the normal and the pathological. Although clear...
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Hysteria as a disease no longer exists, but in the nineteenth century hysteria was thought to affect...
On Photography
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Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's...
A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diary of Henry Owens 1914-1918
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Henry Owens Great War diary provides a vivid and complete narrative, seen from the perspective of an...
Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
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Possessing a unique beauty and refined acting skills, Ann Dvorak (1911-1979) found success in...
Girl in the Dark
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"An astonishing memoir" Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave BOOK OF THE WEEK ON BBC RADIO 4 'Oh,...
My Age of Anxiety
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This is The New York Times Bestseller and Shortlisted For The Wellcome Book Prize 2015. As recently...
Second Opinion: 8 Deadly Diseases--Western Medicine, Eastern Medicine, You Power: Together They Could Save Your Life
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Most people would agree that we aren't taught much about 'wellness.' And while there seems to be an...