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Book Review: Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
Golding's iconic book describes the descent into savagery of a group of stranded British boys. Thus it questions whether civilised life is a mere sheen.
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Book Review: Growing Great Boys by Ian Grant and Growing Great Girls by Ian and Mary Grant
For parents of boys and girls, the two books together form a terrific bible of parenting that will be referred to and re-used again and again.
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Book Review: Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Peter Greenberg examines the summer in which his 15-year-old daughter was "struck mad" by bipolar disorder.
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Book Review: Outliers - The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers seems to tell us things that we already know.
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Book Review: The Devil Notebooks by Laurence A. Rickels
Even the Prince of Darkness doesn't make this book a lively read.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Celebrates his 100th Birthday This Month!
The father of structural anthropology approaches his centennial.
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Book Review: Standing at Water's Edge - Moving Past Fear, Blocks, and Pitfalls to Discover the Power of Creative Immersion by Anne Paris
Paris’ prose is affirmative, compassionate, and supportive and will help artists to take better care of their emotional needs.
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Book Review: Powers of the Sixth Sense - How to Remain Safe in a Hostile World by Jock Brocas
Brocas maintains that connecting to our inner awareness is possible - and necessary to live both vibrantly and safely.
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Book Review: The Road to Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
After a harrowing childhood of whippings, cruelty, and abuse, the author’s “grandfather” a Muslim man who has been abusing her, sells her into a brothel.
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Book Review: Mind to Mind - Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, edited by Elliot L. Jurist, Arietta Slade and Sharon Bergner
Takes on the psychoanalytic concept of mentalization, one of the most difficult — and most rewarding — clinical practices.
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