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(0)Daniel Bergner
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to sex, common wisdom holds that men roam while women crave closeness and commitment. But in this provocative, headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about womens arousal and desire inside out. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioral scientists, sexologists, psychologists, and everyday women, he forces us to reconsider long-held notions about female sexuality"--Dust jacket...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Riveting….Powerful…as much about desire and what's normal as it is an exploration of why we are the way we are, whether we like it or not."
-New York Times Book Review
Subtitled "Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing," Daniel Bergner's The Other Side of Desire is a literary exploration of science and sex that will appeal to readers of Mary Roach and Natalie Angier. A cross between "a top-rated HBO series [with] provocatively...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war
Sierra Leone is the world's most war-ravaged country. There, in a West African landscape of spectacular beauty, rampaging soldiers--many not yet in their teens--have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so anarchic and so desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized....
5) The mind and the moon: my brother's story, the science of our brains, and the search for our psyches
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, JFK declared that science would take us to the moon. He also declared that science would make the "remote reaches of the mind accessible" and cure psychiatric illness with breakthrough medications. We were walking on the moon within the decade. But today, psychiatric cures continue to elude us, as does the mind itself. Why is it that we still don't understand how the mind works? What is the difference between the mind and the brain?...