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The Interpretation Of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
Freud's discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history of psychology. Dreams, according to his theory, represent the hidden fulfillment of our unconscious wishes.
This ground-breaki.... (Read more)
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The King’s Speech : How One Man Saved The British Monarchy
by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’.
Logue wasn’t a Briti.... (Read more)
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The Mad Tibetan: Stories From Then And Now
by Deepti Naval
Through the prism of life emerges The Mad Tibetan: Stories From Then and Now. While Thulli draws you deep in to the sordid and bleak life of a prostitute in Karnathipura in Mumbai, The Piano Tuner gently tugs at your heart with music from the piano that Feroze Batliboi once played. Ruth Ma.... (Read more)
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The Miracle Of St. Anthony
by Adrian Wojnarowski
In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them i.... (Read more)
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
The text includes her short fiction, poems, book and theater reviews, letters, and more. A wonderful extra is the quickie biography in simple drawings adorning the front and rear inside cover flaps. Though probably better known today for her one-liners, Parker should be taken seriously as .... (Read more)
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The World Is Flat: The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that suddenly knowledge-pools and re.... (Read more)
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Three Junes
by Julia Glass
An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls fo.... (Read more)
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Traffic : Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why plans to protect pedestrians from cars often lead to more accidents. He uncovers who is m.... (Read more)
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Tropic Of Cancer
by Henry Miller
A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller’s adventures amongst the .... (Read more)
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Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
Unequalled in their grace, earthiness, and expression of sensual longing, the love poems of Pablo Neruda are perhaps the most lyrically written and widely read of this century. A perennial best-seller since it was published in Chile years ago, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is an .... (Read more)
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