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Lauren Slater
In this unusual memoir, Slater–diagnosed with a strange illness afflicting her memory–brilliantly explores a mind under siege, telling her personal story of seizures, diagnoses, misdiagnosis and cures.
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An exploration of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums, and romantic love through one of our oldest literary forms the fairy tale. Inspired and barbed, Slater’s fairy tales are irresistible. –Donna…
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Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family.
Lauren Slater’s rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own…
A candid, compelling memoir that illuminates our human need for the companionship of animals.
ally ill patients that gently unfurls to become a revealing memoir and thoughtful meditation on the therapeutic process itself ( The New York Times ), brilliant young writer and therapist…
An author and psychologist describes her love for the animals in her life and the various contributions they have made.
A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer (Washington Post)
Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the…
Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. ;;Lauren Slater’s rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own…
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Capacious and rigorous … Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science. –Parul Sehgal, New York Times
Terrific. –@MichaelPollan
Ambitious…Slater’s depictions…
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A brilliant account of the twentieth century’s key psychological experiments, by the author of Prozac Diary
Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology’s most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century’s most pressing concerns-free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality.
This complete guide provides a comprehensive overview of the psychological issues that concern women most. Arguing that women need to understand their mental health as more than a question of…
Martin Ratcliffe
This volumes in the Greenwood Guides to the Universe series covers the current scientific understanding of the creation and evolution of the universe.
David Alexander
Scientifically sound, but written with the student in mind, The Sun is an excellent first step for researching the exciting scientific discoveries of the star at the center of our…
Glenn F. Chaple
Glenn Chaple’s lifelong interest in astronomy began when a high school friend showed him the planet Saturn through a backyard telescope. After receiving a BS Degree in Astronomy from the…
