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Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)

by John Berger

Published: 1990-12-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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John Berger’s seminal text on how to look at artJohn Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is a...

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The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

by Kiera Van Gelder

Published: 2010-08-01

Paperback: 264 pages

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Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder...

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Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

Published: 2016-08-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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“These survivors hit their mark in helping to change the conversation about borderline personality disorder (BPD)." —Jim Payne, former president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness This provocative book uncovers the truth about a misunderstood and stigmatized disorder, and offer...

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True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Published: 2006-09-12

Mass Market Paperback: 120 pages

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In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, offers timeless insight into the nature of real love. With simplicity, warmth, and directness, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and freedom—ex...

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The Art of Sleeping Alone: Why One French Woman Suddenly Gave Up Sex

by Sophie Fontanel

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Sophie Fontanel, bestselling novelist and iconic editor of French Elle, tells the provocative story of her decision to stop having sex—a choice that profoundly changed her view of herself and her place in the world. At the age of twenty-seven, after many years of having (and, for the mos...

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String Too Short to Be Saved (Nonpareil)

by Donald Hall

Published: 2015-08-25

Paperback: 176 pages

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With a new Introduction by Donald HallDonald Hall is not only one of America's greatest living poets and our former national Poet Laureate, but he is also among our most charming personal essayists. This collection of reminiscences glows with the affection he holds for the land, the people...

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What Is Landscape? (MIT Press)

by John R. Stilgoe

Published: 2015-10-09

Hardcover: 280 pages

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A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape."Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car d...

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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

by Ethan Watters

Published: 2011-03-22

Paperback: 320 pages

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The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions,...

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The punctured thumb: Or, Cactus and other succulents

by George Ashley

Published: 1977

Loose Leaf: 168 pages

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The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages

by Maja D'Aoust, Adam Parfrey

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 216 pages

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The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to “The Law of Attraction” and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret. Follow the trail into ancient Egypt to uncover where the law of attraction was first recorded, and how it was brought back to Am...