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Abraham Lincoln
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Carl Sandburg |
This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).
Celebrated fo… |
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For your own good
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Alice Miller |
Miller proposed here that German traumatic childrearing produced heroin addict Christiane F., serial killer of children Jürgen Bartsch and dictator Adolf Hitler. Children learn to accept their parent… |
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Out of my later years
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Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein, among the greatest scientists of all time, was also a man of profound thought and deeply humane feelings. His collected essays offer a fascinating and moving look at one of the twent… |
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The Hammonds of Redcliffe
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Hammond family. |
James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was born at Stoney Battery, South Carolina to Elisha (1774-1829) and Catherine Fox Spann Hammond (1785-1864). In 1831 he married Catherine Elizabeth Fitzsimons (1814-1… |
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AUTISM AND CREATIVITY: IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN AUSTISM IN MEN AND EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY?
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MICHAEL FITZGERALD |
Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less si… |
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A Prince of Our Disorder
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John E. Mack |
When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, Harvard professor of psychiatry Dr. John Mac… |
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Just like someone without mental illness only more so
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Mark Vonnegut |
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his remarkable story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental… |
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The Last Lion
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William Manchester |
Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm begins shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when Great Britain stood alone against the overwhelming might of Naz… |
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This I believe II : more personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
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Jay Allison |
Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the book's title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only h… |
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Diary
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Samuel Pepys |
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament.
The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the mo… |
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Revolutionary medicine
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Jeanne E. Abrams |
Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one's life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regard… |
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Status update
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Alice Emily Marwick |
Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the mea… |
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Robert Lowell
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Kay R. Jamison |
"The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relation… |
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The exceptional brain and how it changed the world
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Robert M. Kaplan |
Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the cours… |
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John Adams
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David McCullough |
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no… |
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On ne meurt qu'une fois et c'est pour si longtemps
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Patrick Pelloux |
Délaissant momentanément les urgences de nos maux contemporains qui forment son quotidien, le Dr Pelloux se penche ici sur de curieux patients : quasi morts, et tous illustres. Et si leur agonie en d… |
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The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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United States. Warren Commission. |
The report of the Presidential commission set up to study the assassination of President Kennedy: a detailed, documented account of the events leading up to and following the assassination. |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Boyd Gaines,Walter Isaacson,Nelson Runger |
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his fa… |
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Outliers
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Malcolm Gladwell |
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the quest… |
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Boswell's clap and other essays
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William B. Ober |
The ten essays selected for this volume range from an investigation of Boswell's repeated infection with gonorrhea to a critical examination of Plato's account of Socrates's death in the Phaedo, subj… |
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