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Author : Noga Arikha
Release : 2007-05-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 168/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Passions and Tempers by : Noga Arikha
Download or read book Passions and Tempers written by Noga Arikha. This book was released on 2007-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arikha intertwines the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy in this 2,500-year journey that explores the origins of humours in ancient Greece to the present day.
Author : Noga Arikha
Release : 2022-04-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ceiling Outside by : Noga Arikha
Download or read book The Ceiling Outside written by Noga Arikha. This book was released on 2022-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Astute, compassionate, and brilliant' Siri Hustvedt Vanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint is haunted by voices. Claire loses the use of her hand because of an inexplicable pain. Noga Arikha began studying these patients to explore how our physical experiences inform our identities. The question took on unexpected urgency when Arikha's own mother began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease. Weaving together stories of her subjects' troubles and her mother's decline, Arikha searches for meaning in the science she set out to study. The result is an unforgettable journey across the ever-shifting boundaries between ourselves and each other. As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, philosopher Noga Arikha grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. 'Fascinates on every page' Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad 'Will leave you humanly richer and, wonder of wonders, at peace with yourself' Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error
Author : Marcello Simonetta
Release : 2011-06-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Napoleon and the Rebel by : Marcello Simonetta
Download or read book Napoleon and the Rebel written by Marcello Simonetta. This book was released on 2011-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's objections, caused him to fall out of favor with his powerful brother. In Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power, authors Simonetta and Arikha draw from a massive trove of first-hand documents, allowing them to present a rare, detailed portrait of this remarkable dynasty that reveals Emperor Napoleon and his family at their most intimate and vulnerable moments. The turbulent relationship between Napoleon and his favorite brother, Lucien, of whom the emperor said, "of all my siblings, he was the most gifted, and the one who hurt me most," creates the perfect springboard to illustrate the bloody power struggles, romantic idealism, and corruption that characterized nineteenth-century Europe, as well as the rise and fall of the French empire.
Author : Will Davis
Release : 2012-01-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Trapeze Artist by : Will Davis
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Will Davis. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis
Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Release : 2018-07-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 045/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Of Anger (Annotated) by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Of Anger (Annotated) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This book was released on 2018-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU have demanded of me, Novatus, that I should write how anger may be soothed, and it appears to me that you are right in feeling especial fear of this passion, which is above all others hideous and wild: for the others have some alloy of peace and quiet, but this consists wholly in action and the impulse of grief, raging with an utterly inhuman lust for arms, blood and tortures, careless of itself provided it hurts another, rushing upon the very point of the sword, and greedy for revenge even when it drags the avenger to ruin with itself. Some of the wisest of men have in consequence of this called anger a short madness: for it is equally devoid of self control, regardless of decorum, forgetful of kinship, obstinately engrossed in whatever it begins to do, deaf to reason and advice, excited by trifling causes, awkward at perceiving what is true and just, and very like a falling rock which breaks itself to pieces upon the very thing which it crushes. That you may know that they whom anger possesses are not sane, look at their appearance; for as there are distinct symptoms which mark madmen, such as a bold and menacing air, a gloomy brow, a stern face, a hurried walk, restless hands, changed colour, quick and strongly-drawn breathing; the signs of angry men, too, are the same: their eyes blaze and sparkle, their whole face is a deep red with the blood which boils up from the bottom of their heart, their lips quiver, their teeth are set, their hair bristles and stands on end, their breath is laboured and hissing, their joints crack as they twist them about, they groan, bellow, and burst into scarcely intelligible talk, they often clap their hands together and stamp on the ground with their feet, and their whole body is highly-strung and plays those tricks which mark a distraught mind, so as to furnish an ugly and shocking picture of self-perversion and excitement. You cannot tell whether this vice is more execrable or more disgusting. This edition includes: - A complete biography of Lucius Annaeus Seneca- Table of contents with directs links to chapters
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