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Patrick Weil
The Madman in the White House

In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired by his irrational handling of the Treaty of Versailles. Released decades later in r…

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Iakovos Vasiliou
Varieties of Happiness

Almost all ancient Greek ethical theories are taken to be eudaimonist because of the central role of eudaimonia (happiness) within them. Varieties of Happiness critically examines eudaimonism and challeng…

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Alisha Mughal
It Can't Rain All the Time

It Can't Rain All the Time weaves memoir with film criticism in an effort to pin down The Crow's cultural resonance.A passionate analysis of the ill-fated 1994 film starring the late Brandon Lee and its l…

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Robert Wuthnow
Nurturing Happiness

How does religious faith contribute to happiness? In Nurturing Happiness, Robert Wuthnow describes how American faith leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to nurture -- and control -- the…

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Megan Garber
Screen People

From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertai…

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Truth in the Late Foucault

"The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examinatio…

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Christine Vitrano
The Pursuit of Success

This book explores the question of what it means to live a successful life, arguing that both our commonsense and philosophical assumptions about success are misguided, for both focus on external achievem…

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Elizabeth Lesser
Cassandra Speaks

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one be…

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J D Vance
Hillbilly Elegy

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town.Hillbilly Elegy is…

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Janet Harbord,
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic

Embedded in film studies and neurodiversity scholarship, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that t…

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Lynn M Somers
Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

"This book considers the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, of…

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Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Shifting

Commemorating its 20th anniversary with a new Introduction and updated content, Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America.Based on the African Am…

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Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah,
Cosmologies of Mental Health

This open access book is based on a unique body of data on a hitherto understudied field of Pentecostal prayer camps and mental health in Ghana .The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cas…

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Ellen Jones
Outrage

A searing look at how, despite massively increased mainstream visibility for LGBTQ+ people, equality has not been achieved - and what anyone can do to help move things forward.

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Aristote
The Art of Rhetoric

Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, …

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Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan

This timely and much-needed volume pays tribute to the long life and intellectual legacy of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, a prolific scholar, mentor, and icon in the fields of psychology and education.The central…

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Learning and Thriving Across the Lifespan

This timely and much-needed volume pays tribute to the long life and intellectual legacy of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, a prolific scholar, mentor, and icon in the fields of psychology and education.The central…

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Richard Wright
Black Boy

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."---New York Times Book ReviewCelebrating its eightieth anniversary,…

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Andrea Curtis,
The Story and Science of Hope

Hope is more than a feeling - it can change the world! Discover how new science and ancient knowledge can help us face an uncertain world.All over the world, kids are struggling with grief, anxiety and fe…

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Memorializing Violence

This volume brings together feminist reflections on the transnational lives of memorializations to colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. It asks what's at stake in memorializing amidst and …

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