Edition: 1st Mariner Books Ed
Publication date: 2003-12-31
Dewey code: 796.123092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.09
Review Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing / Houghton Mifflin (Trade):
Authors
- Jimmy Stockin
- Martin King
- Martin Knight
Publication date: 2001-09-27
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98
Review On the Cobbles: The Life of a Bare-knuckled Gypsy Warrior / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 909.831
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.41
Review My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me: 0 / PublicAffairs:
Publication date: 2000-12-15
Dewey code: 618.9289820092
RRP: £9.95
Price: £5.47
Review Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Publication date: 2002-02-21
Dewey code: 198.9
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.37
Review Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 580.922
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.55
Review Flower Hunters / OUP Oxford:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-10-02
Dewey code: 616.852620092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.98
Review Anorexia: A Stranger in the Family / Accent Press Ltd:
Edition: Grove Press. Ed
Publication date: 1988-05-01
Dewey code: 364.15230924
RRP: £10.95
Price: £3.81
Review Manson in His Own Words / Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press:
Authors
- Michael Meyer
- Henry David Thoreau
Dewey code: 818.303
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.99
Review Walden and Civil Disobedience: (American Library): AND Civil Disobedience / Longman:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-04-01
Dewey code: 616
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review When Rabbit Howls / Jove Publications:
Edition: 1st American Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2007-08-15
Dewey code: 362.76
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.80
Review Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Publication date: 1999-05-01
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.49
Review Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Creator: Andrew Mott
Publication date: 1995-06-19
Dewey code: 531
RRP: £11.50
Price: £5.77
Review Principia (Great Minds Series) / Prometheus Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-08-15
Dewey code: 153
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.85
Review The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance / The Free Press:
Edition: 1st HarperCollins Paperback Ed
Publication date: 1991-10-03
Dewey code: 305.687
RRP: £25.00
Price: £3.31
Review Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish (Ohio) / HarperSanFrancisco:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-06-20
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £12.00
Price: £2.41
Review Cube: Keep the Secret / HarperSanFrancisco:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 362.1968520092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.77
Review The Butterfly Girl / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Irvin D. Yalom
- Ginny Elkin
Publication date: 1990-12-12
Dewey code: 616.898209
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.86
Review Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy / Basic Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-23
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.13
Review Uncle Tungsten / Picador:Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir Uncle Tungsten charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably "Uncle Tungsten" (real name, Dave), who "manufactured lightbulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire". Metals were the substances that first attracted young Oliver, and his descriptions of their colours, textures and properties are as sensuous and romantic as an art lover's rhapsodies over an Old Master. Seamlessly interwoven with his personal recollections is a masterful survey of scientific history, with emphasis on the great chemists like Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavoisier and Humphry Davy (Sacks's personal hero). Yet this is not a dry intellectual autobiography; his parents in particular, both doctors, are vividly sketched. His sociable father loved house calls and "was drawn to medicine because its practice was central in human society", while his shy mother "had an intense feeling for structure. for her [medicine] was part of natural history and biology". For young Oliver, unhappy at the brutal boarding school he was sent to during the war, and afraid that he would become mentally ill like his older brother, chemistry was a refuge in an uncertain world. [+]He would outgrow his passion for metals and become a neurologist, but as readers of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat know, he would never leave behind his conviction that science is a profoundly human endeavour. -Wendy Smith.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-04-01
Dewey code: 828.91209
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.60
Review Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley / Griffin Trade Paperbacks:The legendary Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is a tantalising and bizarre subject. As an occult leader, heroin addict, sexual adventurer, misogynist, and visionary, he is the inspiration for many vile Gothic protagonists. Author W. Somerset Maugham even devoted a novel, The Magician to this chilling figure of indulgence and religious mockery. Like any good biographer, Lawrence Sutin set out to discover the man behind the myth. After considerable research, Sutin admits that Crowley was "a shameless scoffer at Christian virtue" and "a spoiled scion of a wealthy Victorian family" but he also sees him as a 20th century figure as "protean, brilliant, courageous, and flabbergasting as ever you could imagine". Consider these facts about the man who named himself "The Great Beast": he was one of the first Westerners to seriously study Buddhism and Yoga. He radically redesigned the traditional Tarot deck (thus the "Crowley deck"). Contrary to common belief, he was never known to participate in satanic ritual-to do so would acknowledge the Christian church, which he was loathe to do (although he nicknamed his son "The Christ Child"). These are but a few of the surprising morsels one can glean from this excellent biography. [+]Don't expect to find Crowley a likeable figure. Do, however, expect to meet a flamboyant man who challenged all forms of religious, sexual, and social oppression and hence became a revered visionary and a reviled demon. -Tara West.
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