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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

Synopsis

A handful of recent books disparaging religion by atheists such as Richard Dawkins have largely put the blame on culture for humanity’s widespread unscientific beliefs. Yet what if the greatest influence on our supernatural convictions is the built-in wiring of our brains? Hood is an internationally renowned neuroscientist who has developed a revolutionary new theory to explain why, in the face of dubious evidence, humans so readily put their faith in supernatural forces. Dubbed supersense, Hood’s theory traces religious inclinations to how the brain processes information: a hardwired tool kit for making sense of the world that begins in childhood. In 10 engaging and informative chapters with titles like “Could You Wear a Killer’s Cardigan?” and “Would You Let Your Wife Sleep with Robert Redford?” Hood lays out the evidence for the mind’s penchant for seeing patterns in disconnected events and cultivating sacred values that bind humans together. Hood’s treatise provides a much-needed counterbalance to hard-core skeptics by arguing that supersense, while not exactly grounded in rationality, ultimately gives our lives meaning. –Carl Hays Review “…a fun and illuminating book.” (Newsweek) “Hood’s treatise provides a much-needed counterbalance to hardcore skeptics by arguing that supersense, while not exactly grounded in rationality, ultimately gives our lives meaning.” (Booklist) In recent years, there has been a lot written about religion, superstition, and faith, but there has never been a book like this. . . SuperSense is a joy to read–beautifully written, deeply clever and funny, replete with brilliant insights and observations. (Paul BloomProfessor, Department of Psychology, Yale University Author of “Descartes’ Baby: How the science of child development explains what makes us human” ) [A] fascinating, timely and important book. . . . Hood’s presentation of the science behind our supersense is crystal clear and utterly engaging. (New Scientist ) Supersense is a terrifically fun read. But it is much more: though we may forever believe in ghosts, goblins and the beneficent deities, with a dose of skeptical scientific realism, a la Hood, there is hope that sanity will prevail. (Marc Hauser, Harvard College Professor, author of Moral Minds ) An intriguing look at a feature of the human mind that is subtle in its operation but profound in its consequences. (Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought ) If we understood our own irrationality, and why so many people believe in ghosts, spirits, and invisible powers, then we might be able to improve the way we think. With quirkily fun examples and fascinating experiments Bruce Hood explains why we can’t always escape our Supersense. (Dr. Susan Blackmore, author of Conversations on Consciousness ) Reading SuperSense is like having lunch with your favorite professor–the conversation spans religion, biology, psychology, philosophy, and early childhood development. One thing is for sure, you’ll never see the world in the same way again. (Ori Brafman, New York Times bestselling author of Sway ) A compelling account of how beliefs in the supernatural world spring from the natural way our minds make sense of our experiences. (Daniel M. Wegner, Harvard Professor of Psychology, author of The Illusion of Conscious Will ) Read this beautifully written book, and you will lose some childhood innocence about how the world works. But, it will leave you wiser about yourself, and what it is to be human. (Guy Claxton, author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less ) Magical thinking is a defining feature of the human mind – the source of all that is sublime and absurd about our species. In this timely exploration of the psychology of irrational belief Bruce Hood pulls off the rare feat of being both authoritative and wonderfully entertaining. Brilliant. (Paul Broks, author of Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology) Dr. Hood, a world-class scholar in the field of cognitive science, explains the many weird and wonderful ways that we humans naturally view the world as ruled by supernatural phenomena. Bruce Hood’s SuperSense is sensational. (Susan A. GelmanSusan A. GelmanSusan A. Gelman, author of The Essential Child).

 

Domestic Violence

Publisher: Open University Press

ISBN: 0335222811

Edition 2008

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This book takes a multi-agency approach to domestic violence and looks at a large range of issues that impact on those working in the health and social care field. It begins with identification of situations where abuse may occur, including intimate partner violence, child and adolescent abuse, same-sex violence, and elderly abuse. The book considers the commonalities for survivors of abuse – such as the right to feel safe and protected from violence – and evaluates how health and social care professionals can work towards a positive outcome for all of the individuals involved.The book is divided into four parts, Recognition, Reaction, Involvement and Outcome and includes chapters on: Sexual Coercion and Domestic Violence; Abuse and the Elderly; Treatment and Alcohol; Multi-Disciplinary Working Relationship; and, Conflict and Abuse Outcomes. “Domestic Violence” is a key reference resource for students and professionals across a wide range of health and social care occupations. Contributors include: Georgia Anetzberger, Michael Kimmel, Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Adrian Sutton, Poco Kernsmith, T Shackelford, Aaron T. Goetz, Michael J Potoczniak, Marianne R.Yoshioka, Karel Kurst-Swanger, Julie Schumacher, Jay Peters, Dana DeHart, Iona Heath, Albert R. Roberts, Anne Cools, Melanie Shepard, Patricia O’Campo, Ajitha Cyriac, Farah Ahmed, Richard E. Heyman, Iona Heath, Chris Murphy, Beth Mattingly, and Laura Dugan.

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Mil soles Espléndidos
Khaled Hosseini
http://www.ziddu.com/download/5452748/KhaledHosseini-Milsolesesplendidos.pdf.html
ISBN: 9788498381221
Superando con creces el rotundo éxito de Cometas en el cielo —más de seis millones de ejemplares vendidos en treinta idiomas— la segunda novela de Khaled Hosseini saltó de inmediato al primer puesto en todos los países donde se ha publicado. Nueva demostración del asombroso instinto de gran narrador de que goza el autor, el libro cuenta la conmovedora historia de amistad entre dos mujeres afganas de orígenes muy dispares, cuyos destinos se entrelazan por obra del azar y de las convulsiones que ha sufrido Afganistán en los últimos treinta años. Hija ilegítima de un rico hombre de negocios, Mariam se cría con su madre en una modesta vivienda a las afueras de Herat. A los quince años, su vida cambia drásticamente cuando su padre la envía a Kabul a casarse con Rashid, un hosco zapatero treinta años mayor que ella. Casi dos décadas más tarde, Rashid encuentra en las calles de Kabul a Laila, una joven de quince años sin hogar. Cuando el zapatero le ofrece cobijo en su casa, que deberá compartir con Mariam, entre las dos mujeres se inicia una relación que acabará siendo tan profunda como la de dos hermanas, tan fuerte como la de madre e hija. Pese a la diferencia de edad y las distintas experiencias que la vida les ha deparado, la necesidad de afrontar las terribles circunstancias que las rodean —tanto de puertas adentro como en la calle, donde la violencia política asola el país—, hará que Mariam y Laila vayan forjando un vínculo indestructible que les otorgará la fuerza necesaria para superar el miedo y dar cabida a la esperanza.

MANUAL DE LA PERFECTA CABRONA
ELIZABETH HILTS
http://www.ziddu.com/download/5452446/HiltsElizabeth-ManualdelaPerfectaCabrona.pdf.
Editorial Diana, S.A.
ISBN: 9681336690
Synopsys:

A muchas mujeres las han educado para actuar siempre de la manera «correcta»… sin embargo, ese esfuerzo no sólo no las hace felices, sino que incluso les impide alcanzar lo que desean. Pero en cada mujer existe una fuerza fundamental y poderosa que muchas veces preferimos ignorar.Es fuerte, es valiente, no se anda con pañoscalientes, no se deja pisar… es, en definitiva, la Cabrona Interior. Toda mujer lleva una cabrona dentro: conseguir que emerja para ayudarnos a vivir mejor y lograr nuestros objetivos es sólo cuestión de que aprendamos a escucharla y seamos capaces de superar nuestros miedos. Con humor e ingenio, Elizabeth Hilts ofrece en este libro los consejos básicos para que, de una vez por todas, la cabrona tome el mando.

The Asian Diet: Simple Secrets for Eating Right, Losing Weight, and Being Well
Jason Bussell
http://www.ziddu.com/download/5438452/TheAsianDiet2009.pdf.html
Findhorn Press
2009
ISBN: 1844091600 

In this era of fad diets, detox programs, and “superfoods,” this examination of the relationship between diet and lifestyle looks to the Far East to claim that the simple principles to live by are balance and moderation. By rebuilding the connections between what is put into the body and how it functions, the diet outlined in this book teaches the daily effects that particular food choices will have—on bodyweight, energy, mood, and the quality and duration of life—and that ultimately all foods are good in the right proportion. All major food groups are covered, with additional sections on dietary supplements, lifestyle, and attitude, plus a handful of recipes to demonstrate the principles of the diet.
 

 

Woman As Fire, Woman As Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata

(S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)

Arti Dhand

Publisher: State University of New York Press

2008-02-14

ISBN: 079147139X

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Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.

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Life by the Numbers

Keith Devlin

Publisher: Wiley

ISBN: 0471328227

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From uncanny movie dinosaurs to the loopy physics of the triple axel, Keith Devlin’s vibrantly illustrated book illuminates the mathematics inherent in every human endeavor.

“A beautiful book . . . the aim is not to teach but to entertain, and it succeeds. The view that mathematics is dull is replaced by an image of how math can be both interesting and useful, if not all-powerful.”New Scientist.

“A colorful and exciting introduction to the ways in which mathematics can help [us] to under-stand phenomena. [Devlin] presents fascinating real-world problems posed by real people and shows how mathematics is used to solve them.”Choice.

“Not in many, many years have I seen a book nearly as instructive and enlightening about the beauty of mathematics. Life by the Numbers is superb.”Amir Aczel, author of Fermat’s Last Theorem.

“This wondrous book reveals how, on the brink of the millennium, wizards are using math to bring movie dinosaurs to life, to improve tennis stars’ serves, to win sailboat races, and to probe the eeriest corners of the cosmos. A pleasurable read for adult and young alike.”Keay Davidson, coauthor of Wrinkles in Time.

“A fascinating account of many of the ways in which mathematical ideas find application in the world around us. Keith Devlin is to be congratulated for bringing these ideas so accessibly to the public.”Sir Roger Penrose, author of The Emperor’s New Mind.

Most of us think mathematics is about numbers and counting. That’s just the basics, though, and Keith Devlin’s companion book to the PBS series “Life by the Numbers” gives examples of the versatility of math as a tool for understanding just about everything. Devlin loves math–he calls it “one of the greatest creations of mankind” in a chapter entitled “It’s an M World”–and he wants everyone to love it. He shows, through fascinating photos and examples, that mathematics is all around us, determining everything from the shape of a flower to how our CD players and insurance policies work. For the math-phobic, Life by the Numbers can be a reintroduction to a subject they may have mistakenly thought dry and boring. Forget about long division, we’re talking about understanding virtual reality, leopard spots, and viruses. This book would be perfect to introduce a high-school student to some of the great careers available to mathematicians. The experts introduced throughout are hip and cutting-edge, putting math to work in movie special effects, sports and art. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, Devlin’s tour of modern mathematics brings the subject to life. –Therese Littleton

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Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age

Benjamin Creme

Publisher: Share International Fdn

ISBN: 9071484351

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The next step in today’s ‘spiritual revolution’ is putting the gains of personal development to work for the world, says Benjamin Creme, author of 12 books on practical spirituality and life ahead in the new millennium. In a new, expanded 5th edition of his book, Transmission-A Meditation for the New Age, Creme explains that the time is past to focus on one’s own spiritual progress without engaging in some form of service…

The next step in today’s ‘spiritual revolution’ is putting the gains of personal development to work for the world, says Benjamin Creme, author of 12 books on practical spirituality and life ahead in the new millennium. In a new, expanded 5th edition of his book, Transmission-A Meditation for the New Age, Creme explains that the time is past to focus on one’s own spiritual progress without engaging in some form of service. Transmission Meditation, he says, is the simplest way to do both–at the same time. Transmission Meditation is a group service activity which ‘steps down’ the great spiritual energies that continually stream into our planet, focused by the Masters of Wisdom–our ‘Elder Brothers’. This process, which makes the energies more useful to humanity, is like that of electrical transformers, stepping down the power between generators and ordinary outlets. These transformed spiritual energies, Creme explains, are gradually uplifting all life forms and changing our world for the better. “What is unique about this work,” says Creme, “is its simplicity. It is a perfect vehicle for the aspirations of very busy people. It is safe, highly scientific, non-denominational, free of any charge, and unbelievably potent. It is a service in which we can involve ourselves for the rest of our lives and know that we are helping in the great transformation to a more just and compassionate world. At the same time I know of no other form of service which makes for such far reaching and fast spiritual growth.” The preface includes Creme’s extraordinary account of his 40-year collaboration with a Master of Wisdom, and how it led to his primary work of preparing the way for Maitreya, World Teacher for the coming age.

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The Power of Creative Intelligence

Tony Buzan

PerfectBound, ISBN: 0007150083

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The Power of Creative Intelligence is designed to take you on a Grand Tour of Creativity, showing you how you can expand and increase the power of your Creative Thinking at each stage of your journey. The following chapters contain potted case histories and stories of

individuals who have exemplified the qualities being discussed. There is also a Creativity Workout in each chapter, where you can try your hand at specific exercises designed to make you smarter. Each exercise, while developing the specific Creative Intelligence skill area for which it is designed, will (thanks to the way the brain is an infinitely expanding

and inter-connecting association machine!) simultaneously develop the mental muscles of your other Creative Intelligence skill areas.

The chapters also explain how you can use Mind-Maps® to develop your Creative Intelligence, and give examples of those ultimate creativityenhancing thinking tools, which I have spent my life developing. There are also many other diagrams and illustrations that use the principles of Creativity to help you improve yours.

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The Power of Spiritual Intelligence

Tony Buzan

PerfectBound

SBN: 0007150121 |

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Are you a spiritual person? Many people confuse being spiritual with being religious, but they are very different things. When you are Spiritually Intelligent you become more aware of the ‘big picture’ – for yourself and the universe, and your place and purpose in it.

Spiritual Intelligence is considered by many to be the most important of our many intelligences, and has the power to transform your life, civilization, the planet and the course of history. In The Power of Spiritual Intelligence I will explore the nature of spirituality, and show you how you can develop this wonderful intelligence. You will be able to develop your personal values – concepts like truth and honesty – and become involved first in understanding and knowing more of yourself, and then reaching out to participate in and help the community at large.

Happily, developing your Spiritual Intelligence will allow you to see the lighter and more humorous side of things, and to regain those qualities such as enthusiasm, cheerfulness, energy and persistence that characterize children. Not only that – I will show you how you can increase your inner peace and strength, and so become better able to

control and reduce the stresses that often blight our modern, busy lives.

First, I would like to tell you about my own spiritual career, and how I came to realize that there was such a thing as Spiritual Intelligence.

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The Power of Social Intelligence

Tony Buzan

 

PerfectBound

ISBN: 0007150164

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“Does the thought of walking into a party full of total strangers fill you with dread?

Does the idea of making small talk with your possible future inlaws leave you a gibbering wreck?

Have you ever been introduced to a group of people, only to forget their names instantly and flounder for something to say?

Do you want to make a good impression at a job interview, but are so nervous you can hardly speak?

Do you wish that you could happily talk to people and make friends easily?

If any of the above scenarios has struck a chord with you, or if your Social Intelligence could do with a bit of a boost, The Power of Social Intelligence is designed to help you.

‘Social Intelligence’ is simply the degree to which we ‘get along with’ and relate to other people around us. Human beings are, after all, social animals, and this ability is absolutely vital if we are to get on in life and enjoy ourselves.

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Breaking the Silence

Stephen P. Hinshaw

Oxford University Press, USA

2008-01-08

ISBN: 0195320263

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People with mental illness are far too often subjected to discrimination and unfair treatment. It is particularly unfortunate that much of this stigmatization comes from the very people they depend upon for help–those in the mental health professions. Too many practitioners and scientists maintain “us-versus-them” attitudes and are extremely reluctant to admit any personal or family experiences of mental illness. This culture of concealment must change, and this book will change it. A groundbreaking collection of moving and inspiring stories of serious mental disorder from trainees, clinicians, and scientists in the mental-health professionals, Breaking the Silence is the first book to reveal the deep commonalities between patients and professionals. With an unprecedented level of honesty and disclosure, the contributors tell their own and their families’ stories of mental disorder. Renowned psychologist Steve Hinshaw–who previously disclosed his own family’s struggles with misdiagnosed bipolar disorder and who has synthesized the world literature on the stigma of mental illness–integrates, synthesizes, and provides perspective on these revealing stories. As they relate their personal and family histories, the contributors also describe the serious impairments that can accrue, the strength and courage that can be derived, and the influence these experiences have had on their own decisions to enter the mental health field. Moving in its honesty, frank in its disclosures, and sensitive in its portrayals, Breaking the Silence will be a beacon for those in the mental health professions, trainees across the many related fields, family members, and anyone who is dealing with mental illness. Its stark stories of pain, denial, and impairment, along with its clear messages of hope, courage, and resilience, will inspire for years to come.

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Living with Bipolar: A Guide to Understanding and Managing the Disorder

Lesley Berk and Michael Berk

Allen & Unwin

2008

ISBN: 1741754259

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Analyzing an ailment that affects more than half of those suffering from depression, this reference provides practical and comprehensive information about bipolar disorder. Formerly known as manic depression, its mood swings can be extraordinarily disturbing for both the sufferers and those around them. This resource outlines the characteristics of the two main forms—Bipolar I and Bipolar II—their causes and triggers, treatment options, and ways of preventing relapses. With strategies for coping with symptoms and advice for living a healthy lifestyle, this handbook will prove invaluable to those suffering from bipolar disorder as well as their family and friends.

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The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year

Publisher: William Morrow

|ISBN: 006136813X

Edition 2009

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The Addict opens a window on the very private world of prescription drug addiction, revealing the harrowing and riveting story of a young woman whose life has been taken over by an impulse that she can’t control and a need that she can’t extinguish. Lucy’s first appointment with Dr. Michael Stein was on a sunny day in April, and the minute she sat down she said, “I’m here for your program,” beginning a series of intimate encounters during the course of a year that took her back to the origins of her addiction and unraveled a life driven by compulsion and the constant pursuit of the next pill. The Addict follows Lucy from the start of her treatment, through relapse, to her eventual long-term recovery, including her breakup with a destructive boyfriend whose own addiction to drugs surpassed hers. This is an unforgettable tale of a young woman living on the edge but determined to take control of her life. Here also is the deeply personal account of a doctor on the front lines of an epidemic. In this masterful work, Michael Stein brings in other patients whose experiences are like Lucy’s but in many ways are completely different. Dr. Stein explains what doctors are thinking and feeling about addiction, and how they make difficult decisions with difficult patients. He also aims to change the way we think about addiction, arguing that it should be treated as we treat diabetes or high blood pressure—as a disease within the medical system. This affecting and thought-provoking book will resonate with anyone struggling with chemical dependence. In The Addict, Dr. Stein creates a portrait of the intimate bond between one patient and one doctor, a relationship that is profoundly moving and incredibly compelling.

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The Power of Verbal Intelligence

Tony Buzan –
PerfectBound
ISBN: 0007150202

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The Power of Verbal Intelligence is about to take you on one of the most exciting journeys of your life. It is a journey on which you will: discover and explore new worlds
feast your imagination on new concepts and ideas learn more about your amazing brain and how to use it learn the basic building blocks of word power, enabling you, at a stroke, to expand your current vocabulary by thousands of words learn how to use your body to communicate effectively rediscover the joy of playing around with words and their meanings learn the basic secrets of reading faster and comprehending
more learn how to mesmerize and entrance others with the power and beauty of your conversation and most importantly, The Power of Verbal Intelligence has been designed to make sure that you have fun while you increase your Word Power.
Most importantly, The Power of Verbal Intelligence has been designed to make sure that you have fun while you increase your Word Power.

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151 Quick Ideas to Manage Your Time

Robert E. Dittmer

Publisher: Career Press 2006-09-15

ISBN: 1564148998

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Too many of us live our lives trying to shoehorn our many activities and responsibilities into too few time slots available. Increasingly for business people, fathers and mothers, even kids—(ineffectively) managing the myriad of activities has become an all-consuming chore. And we’re so stressed that our relationships and job performance suffer.

Why? Because we organize our time and our lives poorly: We spend five years of our lives waiting in lines, three years in meetings, and two years playing telephone tag! We get interrupted 73 times per day, interfering with our productivity, and take an hour of work home every night, interfering with our family time.

But we can solve these problems. This book presents 151 quick and easy ways to meet these challenges in our daily lives. Each idea comes from the real world experiences of people like you—people who are experimenting with, examining, and discovering unique solutions to the time problems all of us face every day.

These tried and tested ideas work! And now they are available to you. Select those that fit your particular circumstance and try them out! Here are a few:

• Start Your Day the Night Before

• Undercommit and Overdeliver

• Organize Your Workspace

• Block Contingency Time Every Day

• Use Voice Mail as a Call Screener

• Fight SPAM with an E-mail Blocker

Do more in less time, take control of your schedule, and create a new balance between your work and your family life. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to take charge of your time and increase your quality of life…day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.

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Sexuality, Society, and Feminism (Psychology of Women)

Cheryl Brown Travis and Jacquelyn W. White

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

ISBN: 1557986177

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Discusses ways American society defines and shapes women’s sexuality. Presents fifteen chapters covering epistemology, theory, and methods; life course development; meaning and function; and sexuality and the social order. For advanced students, researchers, and practitioners of psychology.

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Neurophilosophy at Work

Cambridge University Press

1 edition (April 9, 2007)

ISBN:| 0521864720

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Paul Churchland explores the unfolding impact of the several empirical sciences of the mind, especially cognitive neurobiology and computational neuroscience on a variety of traditional issues central to the discipline of philosophy. Representing Churchland’s most recent research, they continue his research program, launched over thirty years ago, and which has evolved into the field of neurophilosophy.

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Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Hyman Minsky

McGraw-Hill, English, 2008-04-14

ISBN: 0071592997

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“Mr. Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. His ‘moment’ has arrived.”

The Wall Street Journal.

In his seminal work, Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one that is startlingly relevant today. He explains why the American economy has experienced periods of debilitating inflation, rising unemployment, and marked slowdowns-and why the economy is now undergoing a credit crisis that he foresaw. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy covers:

Henry Kaufman, president, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc., places Minsky’s prescient ideas in the context of today’s financial markets and institutions in a fascinating new preface. Two of Minsky’s colleagues, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Ph.D. and president, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and L. Randall Wray, Ph.D. and a senior scholar at the Institute, also weigh in on Minsky’s present relevance in today’s economic scene in a new introduction.

A surge of interest in and respect for Hyman Minsky’s ideas pervades Wall Street, as top economic thinkers and financial writers have started using the phrase “Minsky moment” to describe America’s turbulent economy. There has never been a more appropriate time to read this classic of economic theory.

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COMETAS EN EL CIELO

KHALED HOSSEINI

Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress: Elizabeth Boyle Avon

ISBN: 0061373249

2009-05-01, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Lady Philippa Knolles has loved Captain Thomas “Dash” Dashwell since he first stole a kiss from her on a smuggler’s beach near Hastings. Now after what seems like a lifetime of waiting, Pippin is offered a chance to renew her scandalous affair with Dash. But the man from that first heady kiss and the man she rediscovers all these years later are hardly the same. Tucked away in the back of her closet is a red dress, the one she wore long ago to win his heart . . . . Could it have enough memories left inside it to rekindle a passion she’s never forgotten?

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Wayne C. Booth, “The Rhetoric of Fiction (2nd Edition)”

TO MY SON:

University Of Chicago Press

2nd Edition

ISBN: 0226065588

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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as “the implied author,” “the postulated reader,” and “the unreliable narrator”—have become part of the standard critical lexicon.

For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as “the richest in the history of the subject.”

Contents:

“Foreword to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Part I: Artistic Purity and the Rhetoric of Fiction

1. Telling and Showing

Authoritative “Telling” in Early Narration

Two Stories from the Decameron

The Author’s Many Voices

2. General Rules, I: “True Novels Must Be Realistic”

From Justified Revolt to Crippling Dogma

From Differentiated Kinds to Universal Qualities

General Criteria in Earlier Periods

Three Sources of General Criteria: The Work, the Author, the Reader

Intensity of Realistic Illusion

The Novel as Unmediated Reality

On Discriminating among Realisms

The Ordering of Intensities

3. General Rules, II: “All Authors Should Be Objective”

Neutrality and the Author’s “Second Self”

Impartiality and “Unfair” Emphasis

Impassibilité

Subjectivism Encouraged by Impersonal Techniques

4. General Rules, III: “True Art Ignores the Audience”

“True Artists Write Only for Themselves”

Theories of Pure Art

The “Impurity” of Great Literature

Is a Pure Fiction Theoretically Desirable?

5. General Rules, IV: Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader’s Objectivity

“Tears and Laughter Are, Aesthetically, Frauds”

Types of Literary Interest (and Distance)

Combinations and Conflicts of Interests

The Role of Belief

Belief Illustrated: “The Old Wives’ Tale”

6. Types of Narration

Person

Dramatized and Undramatized Narrators

Observers and Narrator-Agents

Scene and Summary

Commentary

Self-Conscious Narrators

Variations of Distance

Variations in Support or Correction

Privilege

Inside Views

Part II: The Author’s Voice in Fiction

7. The Uses of Reliable Commentary

Providing the Facts, Picture, or Summary

Molding Beliefs

Relating Particulars to the Established Norms

Heightening the Significance of Events

Generalizing the Significance of the Whole Work

Manipulating Mood

Commenting Directly on the Work Itself

8. Telling as Showing: Dramatized Narrators, Reliable and Unreliable

Reliable Narrators as Dramatized Spokesmen for the Implied Author

“Fielding” in Tom Jones

Imitators of Fielding

Tristram Shandy and the Problem of Formal Coherence

Three Formal Traditions: Comic Novel, Collection, and Satire

The Unity of Tristram Shandy

Shandean Commentary, Good and Bad

9. Control of Distance in Jane Austen’s Emma

Sympathy and Judgment in Emma

Sympathy through Control of Inside Views

Control of Judgment

The Reliable Narrator and the Norms of Emma

Explicit Judgments on Emma Woodhouse

The Implied Author as Friend and Guide

Part III: Impersonal Narration

10. The Uses of Authorial Silence

“Exit Author” Once Again

Control of Sympathy

Control of Clarity and Confusion

“Secret Communion” between Author and Reader

11. The Price of Impersonal Narration, I: Confusion of Distance

“The Turn of the Screw” as Puzzle

Troubles with Irony in Earlier Literature

The Problem of Distance in “A Portrait of the Artist”

12. The Price of Impersonal Narration, II: Henry James and the Unreliable Narrator

The Development from Flawed Reflector into Subject

The Two Liars in “The Liar”

“The Purloining of the Aspern Papers” or “The Evocation of Venice”?

“Deep Readers of the World, Beware!”

13. The Morality of Impersonal Narration

Morality and Technique

The Seductive Point of View: Céline as Example

The Author’s Moral Judgment Obscured

The Morality of Elitism

Afterword to the Second Edition: The Rhetoric in Fiction and Fiction as Rhetoric: Twenty-One Years Later

Extensions

Beckett’s Company As Example

Starting Over

Bibliography

Supplementary Bibliography, 1961–82, by James Phelan [no. 364]

Index to the First Edition

Index to the Bibliographies

Index to the Bibliographies by Number

Bibliography

Supplementary Bibliography, 1961–82 ”

Tags: Literature, Literary, Criticism, Writing, Technique

See Also:

Jane Austen, “Emma” (Norton Critical Editions), 3rd Edition.

Josephine Ross, “Jane Austen: A Companion”.

Janet Todd (ed), “Jane Austen in Context (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)”.

Deirdre Le Faye, “Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels”.

Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells (eds), “The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare”.

Tom McArthur, “The Oxford Companion to the English Language”.

John Rignall (ed), “Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot”.

R. C. Terry, “Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope”.

Julia Prewitt Brown, “A Reader’s Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel”.

Ian Gregor (ed), “Reading the Victorian Novel: Detail into Form”.

John Sutherland & Deirdre Le Faye, “So You Think You Know Jane Austen? A Literary Quizbook (World’s Classics)”.

Daniel Pool, “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist — The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England”.

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NEW VALUES, 2007

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Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values for the 21st Century analyses the shape of the news industry – a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show business.

Detailed chapters include critiques of existing theories, close study of the newspaper, radio, television and internet news channels, plus informative chapters on the many factors that shape the news we read, watch and hear including the role of the citizen journalist, user-generated content, spin doctors, and the new wave of press barons. Further chapters provide detailed analysis of the way in which the same story is treated across different media channels, and how journalists and editors work to keep breathing new life into rolling news stories.

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Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945, 2009

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Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer’s definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

The book’s first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedländer also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves – and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens who, in general, stood silent and unmoved by the increasing waves of segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, and violence.

The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews—an official program that depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, the passivity of the populations, and the willingness of the victims to submit in desperate hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise.

A monumental, multifaceted study now contained in a single volume, Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an essential study of a dark and complex history.

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DIVINE ACTION AND NATURAL SELECTION

SCIENCE, FAITH AND EVOLUTION, 2009

MARIA A MAIOR EDUCADORA DA HISTÓRIA

Professor Augusto Jorge Cury

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