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The fan
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Peter Abrahams |
"Two men."--BOOK JACKET. "One is a baseball star. He has an ex-cheerleader for a wife and a girl in every big-league town. The ball comes off his bat like a firecracker. Bobby Rayburn isn't just a ba… |
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The devotee
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Dan Bergner |
How do we come to be who we are sexually?How do we cope with the forces of desire?How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the a… |
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My first two thousand years
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George Sylvester Viereck |
My First Two Thousand Years tells the story of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew, a Jewish man and a former friend of Jesus, who joins the Roman army. He is present in Jerusalem as Jesus is carrying th… |
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Torn Apart
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James Patterson,Andrew Lang |
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Childhood LostCory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving little boy. That fateful March morning in 1989 started just like any other but later that day, he started to f… |
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Addiction and Virtue
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Kent J. Dunnington |
What is the nature of addiction? Neither of the two dominant models (disease or choice) adequately accounts for the experience of those who are addicted or of those who are seeking to help them. In t… |
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Addiction medicine
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Bankole A. Johnson |
This book attempts to "bridge the gap between the explosion of neuroscientific and behavioral knowledge in the past three decades and treatment delivery in clinical practice. As such, it should fulfi… |
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The addiction solution
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David Kipper |
Kipper and Whitney show that recent breakthroughs in genetic technology have enabled doctors to prove that addiction is an inherited, neurochemical disease originating in brain chemistry, determined … |
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Craving
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Omar Manejwala |
"A nationally recognized expert on compulsive behaviors explains the phenomenon of craving and gives us tools to achieve freedom from our seemingly insatiable desires by changing our actions to remap… |
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Gratitude & trust
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Williams, Paul |
" Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Tracey Jackson is not. But together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust, a book designed to apply the principles of the recovery movement to the… |
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The biology of desire
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Marc David Lewis |
"Neuroscientist Lewis (Memoirs of an Addicted Brain) presents a strong argument against the disease model of addiction, which is currently predominant in medicine and popular culture alike, and bolst… |
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The Age of Addiction
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David T. Courtwright |
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are hooking … |
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Addictive thinking and the addictive personality
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Abraham J. Twerski,Craig Nakken |
Understanding the addictive process, compulsive behavior, and self-deception. |
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Pleasure
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David J. Linden |
Award-winning neuroscientist David Linden shows how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brains, and why ecstatic activities can easily become addictive. On this trip into cuttin… |
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Overcoming perfectionism
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Ann W. Smith |
Presents a description of the main features of perfectionism, along with advice on how to overcome its limitations and consequences and achieve greater intimacy and self-acceptance. |
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Seductions of crime
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Jack Katz |
A chilling exploration of the criminal mind--from juvenile delinquency to cold-blooded murder. Drawing on studies of offenders and victims, self-reports and autobiographies, narratve reconstructions … |
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What's Wrong With Addiction?
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Helen Keane |
The most common questions I receive as an addiction psychiatrist are, "How do you know when someone is addicted?"; "Can't anything be considered addictive?"; and "How can you stand to work with addic… |
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Brain, Personality and Addictive Behaviours
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Radha Venga |
A unique integration of neurophysiology, cognitive neuropsychology,psychology and the social environment in the explanation of motivation and behaviour. |
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