Self's Deception

Self's Deception
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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307490711
ISBN-13 : 0307490718
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Self's Deception by : Bernhard Schlink

Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix. Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective’s desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9780393652215
ISBN-13 : 0393652211
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by : Shankar Vedantam

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021 A Next Big Idea Club Best Nonfiction of 2021 From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a thought-provoking look at the role of self-deception in human flourishing. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital role in our success and well-being. The lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of what it really means to be human.

Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850

Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0521622751
ISBN-13 : 9780521622752
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 by : Thomas O. Beebee

This book explores epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon across Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

How Am I to Be Heard?

How Am I to Be Heard?
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 569
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ISBN-10 : 9781469620343
ISBN-13 : 1469620340
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis How Am I to Be Heard? by : Margaret Rose Gladney

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters explored the ways in which the South's attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people--white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Her best-known books are Strange Fruit (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and Killers of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of southern race relations that angered many southerners, including powerful moderates. Subsequently, Smith was effectively silenced as a writer. Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for this volume. Arranged chronologically and annotated, they present a complete picture of Smith as a committed artist and reveal the burden of her struggles as a woman, including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling. Gladney argues that this triple isolation--as woman, lesbian, and artist--from mainstream southern culture permitted Smith to see and to expose southern prejudices with absolute clarity.

Freud's Megalomania

Freud's Megalomania
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0393321991
ISBN-13 : 9780393321999
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Freud's Megalomania by : Israel Rosenfield

What if Freud had left a final paper declaring that morality arises not from the guilt caused by Oedipal desires but, instead, from fear of the unchallengeable authority demonstrated in megalomania? CUNY history professor Rosenfield makes this the premise of his novel debut--and produces a wonderful, chewy, intellectual delight.

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)

A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged)
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 9783750481442
ISBN-13 : 375048144X
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) by : Montague Summers

An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.

Trust

Trust
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Publisher : Europa Editions
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9781609457044
ISBN-13 : 1609457048
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Trust by : Domenico Starnone

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021 Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly. Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they’ve never told another person, something they’re too ashamed to tell anyone. They will hear the other’s confessions without judgment and with love in their hearts. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain united forever, more intimately connected than ever. A few days after sharing their shameful secrets, they break up. Not long after, Pietro meets Nadia, falls in love, and proposes. But the shadow of the secret he confessed to Teresa haunts him, and Teresa herself periodically reappears, standing at the crossroads, it seems, of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out? Starnone is a master storyteller and a novelist of the highest order. His gaze is trained unwaveringly on the fault lines in our public personas and the complexities of our private selves. Trust asks how much we are willing to bend to show the world our best side, knowing full well that when we are at our most vulnerable we are also at our most dangerous.

Names & Nicknames of Places & Things

Names & Nicknames of Places & Things
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0452009081
ISBN-13 : 9780452009080
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Names & Nicknames of Places & Things by : Laurence Urdang