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2) The titan
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Trilogy of desire volume 2
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The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Preceded by The Financier (1914) and followed by The Stoic (1947), The Titan captures the greed at the heart of the Gilded Age, a time when tycoons rose with total impunity to take over swaths of American...
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Newly-independent Uganda seems like the perfect place for a primatologist to conduct ground-breaking fieldwork on wild baboons. But to his wife, trying to mother a young daughter while approaching the birth of her second child in the midst of elephants, wild buffalo and hippos, surely the relative safety of England or the U.S. is preferable. When Uganda erupts into civil war and her child is born in a hospital under siege, Jennifer Jolly must learn...
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While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.
In other words, the underlying messages are, meant to mitigate the circumstances of the choices you made or the ones you will make down the road ahead. Basically, it's all about paying attention to details that you may...
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Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...
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Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson's life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car's brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next two years, he'd struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his...
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Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference. History of the world is replete with such instances of such men and women who went against all the odds and achieved great heights and changed the shape of the world. In fact, reading about the life-sketch of a scientist and his achievements, has certainly great infotainment value. Besides, the lives of great men and women...
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La sociedad moderna esta experimentando una serie de cambios que colocan en un tercer plano, o a lo mejor en ninguno, los valores eticos, morales y sociales dando como resultado individuos inseguros, depresivos y con unas series de conflictos emocionales que parecieran no tener solucion.
"Plenitud y vida" es una obra de fuente bibliografica escrita con un contenido enfocado en trabajar el cambio del "yo", desde una perspectiva cientifica, sociologica,...
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In the prequel to his current role as the most beloved educator in professional skin care, Peter T. Pugliese, MD shares his own true stories of his early family medical practice in historic (and often hysterical) Bernville, Pennsylvania, from 1958 to 1978. At age 88, this vibrant storyteller shares an intimate and fascinating look back at his own pathway of obstacles and miracles that led him from Catholic school to the seminary where he planned a...
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Der Aberglauben hat immer dann das Zusammenleben der Menschen bestimmt, als die meisten noch Analphabeten waren. Der Autor hat die wichtigsten Geschehnisse, die zum Aberglauben gehörten, zusammen gestellt und kurz beschrieben. Vieles davon besitzt für unsere Gegenwart noch Bedeutung und nicht zu ignorieren. Vielleicht kann der eine oder andere für sich nun verstehen, dass jeder zum Aberglauben tendiert, ohne es zu wollen.
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En una noche de vigilia en la que el alma está cerca de la razón, paralizada de manera obligada en confinamiento por la pandemia mundial de la Covid 19. Una de esas noches en la que te cuestionas todo: lo existencial y lo profesional, sentí la llamada caballeresca de quien sigue sus instintos y delirios más primogénitos de reflejar mi experiencia profesional después de 20 años de terminar la carrera de trabajo social en nuestra querida Salamanca...
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This riveting narrative describes centuries of misunderstanding and ignorance by the world's most highly educated professionals about the human experience of voice-hearing, affecting 300-400 million people worldwide. Describing his own 23-year searing experience, the author, for the first time in human history, reveals the phenomenon can be real predatory victimization rather than delusional hallucination as insistently maintained by science and medicine....
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Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu'allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d'action o les principes de l'activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d'enjeux sociaux: il plaide pour une économie spirituelle qui met l'accent sur le bien-être plutt que sur les besoins matériels; une démocratie qui utilise le pouvoir pour servir les autres plutt que de les exploiter;...
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"Untangling Lives: A Psychiatrist Remembers" is a memoir that focuses on how a psychiatrist separates his own personal history and experiences from the narratives of his patients in psychotherapy, particularly around the issues of loss and recovery. Dr. Nathan Billig, a psychiatrist, provides autobiographical material, patient therapy descriptions (identities and circumstances disguised), and remembered excerpts from his own personal psychoanalysis...
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An only child of parents with deprived backgrounds, Marion's early years were lived in a frugal world, with a grandmother who was addicted to prescribed morphine. The girl who emerged from that bleak world was far from frugal. She traveled, suffered the loss of her father, retreated into Christian Fundamentalism, developed an investment portfolio, married, had a family, and earned a post-graduate degree in the field of her dreams. But how did it all...
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El tercer tomo de Ser adolescente en el Perú se centra en los aspectos vinculados con la cultura escolar, el aprendizaje y las actividades que las y los adolescentes realizan, así como en la relación con sus docentes. Por ello, se analizan los elementos que configuran dicha cultura, además de la valoración y propósito de la escuela y otros aspectos de la vida escolar. Asimismo, acerca del aprendizaje, se exploran factores como la memoria, la...
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Father and daughter provides a unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public work. Using an innovative mix of biography, autobiography,...
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During these last years of social unrest regarding climate change, police arrests, and issues of economic justice, a few leaders have emerged with exceptional social skills.
Linda Coady is featured in this book as having exceptional social intelligence. Once the planning head of the Vancouver Olympics, she added a social awareness in what was once a realm of elite athletes, and brought more workers, suppliers, and companies into the mix of access...
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“40 Years in the Psychotherapist's Chair" is addressed to readers who are interested in furthering personal growth, engaging in psychotherapy, or, perhaps, becoming a psychotherapist. The author aims to help readers gain the hope and courage to become their whole and best selves. Author Dr. Doug Favero writes from the perspective of a seeker and learner alongside the reader.
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The mind is a mysterious thing, even to someone trained in psychology. As forensic psychologist in the town of New Bern, North Carolina, Dr. Trattoria has seen hundreds of patients and interacted with thousands more.
Patients come to Dr. Trattoria for help, but there is no easy solution to a problem related to the human condition. This is especially true when he must formulate an answer to a problem that suits someone else.
This collection of...
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