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1) The titan
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Trilogy of desire volume 2
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English
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The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Preceded by The Financier (1914) and followed by The Stoic (1947), The Titan captures the greed at the heart of the Gilded Age, a time when tycoons rose with total impunity to take over swaths of American...
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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg's grandfather abandoned his family, and her uncle, Bennie, became increasing mentally ill, Sternburg's mother and aunts had to bind together and make crucial decisions...
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This is a love story, although not in the conventional sense of romantic love. This book explores the transformative power of suffering in a revealing narrative informed by spiritual practice. This book explores what it takes to keep your heart open in hell even if it is of your own making. The author relates her struggle in living life with a broken heart not as someone special, but rather as one of the billions of women who strive to live on through...
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La sociedad moderna esta experimentando una serie de cambios que colocan en un tercer plano, o a lo mejor en ninguno, los valores eticos, morales y sociales dando como resultado individuos inseguros, depresivos y con unas series de conflictos emocionales que parecieran no tener solucion.
"Plenitud y vida" es una obra de fuente bibliografica escrita con un contenido enfocado en trabajar el cambio del "yo", desde una perspectiva cientifica, sociologica,...
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The mind is a mysterious thing, even to someone trained in psychology. As forensic psychologist in the town of New Bern, North Carolina, Dr. Trattoria has seen hundreds of patients and interacted with thousands more.
Patients come to Dr. Trattoria for help, but there is no easy solution to a problem related to the human condition. This is especially true when he must formulate an answer to a problem that suits someone else.
This collection of...
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In the prequel to his current role as the most beloved educator in professional skin care, Peter T. Pugliese, MD shares his own true stories of his early family medical practice in historic (and often hysterical) Bernville, Pennsylvania, from 1958 to 1978. At age 88, this vibrant storyteller shares an intimate and fascinating look back at his own pathway of obstacles and miracles that led him from Catholic school to the seminary where he planned a...
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Aus seinem reichen Erfahrungsschatz gewährt uns Stefan Fuchs, der von 1983 bis 2006 zuerst als Psychologe und später als Leiter im "Ziegelstadl" tätig war, Einblicke in das Leben hinter den dicken Mauern und Gittern. Sitzen dort auch Schwerverbrecherinnen und -verbrecher? Gab es schon viele Fluchtversuche? Und warum sucht man sich eigentlich einen Job im Gefängnis aus? Diese und viele weitere Fragen beantwortet er in seinem Buch. Mit stets positivem...
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An only child of parents with deprived backgrounds, Marion's early years were lived in a frugal world, with a grandmother who was addicted to prescribed morphine. The girl who emerged from that bleak world was far from frugal. She traveled, suffered the loss of her father, retreated into Christian Fundamentalism, developed an investment portfolio, married, had a family, and earned a post-graduate degree in the field of her dreams. But how did it all...
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“40 Years in the Psychotherapist's Chair" is addressed to readers who are interested in furthering personal growth, engaging in psychotherapy, or, perhaps, becoming a psychotherapist. The author aims to help readers gain the hope and courage to become their whole and best selves. Author Dr. Doug Favero writes from the perspective of a seeker and learner alongside the reader.
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Français
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Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu'allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d'action o les principes de l'activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d'enjeux sociaux: il plaide pour une économie spirituelle qui met l'accent sur le bien-être plutt que sur les besoins matériels; une démocratie qui utilise le pouvoir pour servir les autres plutt que de les exploiter;...
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Newly-independent Uganda seems like the perfect place for a primatologist to conduct ground-breaking fieldwork on wild baboons. But to his wife, trying to mother a young daughter while approaching the birth of her second child in the midst of elephants, wild buffalo and hippos, surely the relative safety of England or the U.S. is preferable. When Uganda erupts into civil war and her child is born in a hospital under siege, Jennifer Jolly must learn...
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This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain's post-war welfare debates. Drawing on his own papers, publications, and interviews with those who knew him, the book discusses Titmuss's ideas, particularly those around the principles of altruism and social solidarity, as well as his role in policy and academic networks at home and overseas. It is an enlightening portrait...
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God, The Devil And I is a memoir/biography of Jack Jones. A Christian book at its heart. God inspired. An epic journey and extraordinarily incomprehensible life alchemy experiences. Born an orphaned runt, mute, and into poverty. Unaided and lacking in support. Left abandoned. An underdog in every social situation. Has been called by God to fight as a warrior, as David did with Goliath. But appointed by the Devil for death and destruction. A journey...
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Der Aberglauben hat immer dann das Zusammenleben der Menschen bestimmt, als die meisten noch Analphabeten waren. Der Autor hat die wichtigsten Geschehnisse, die zum Aberglauben gehörten, zusammen gestellt und kurz beschrieben. Vieles davon besitzt für unsere Gegenwart noch Bedeutung und nicht zu ignorieren. Vielleicht kann der eine oder andere für sich nun verstehen, dass jeder zum Aberglauben tendiert, ohne es zu wollen.
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Español
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Esta edición revisitada de "Querida María. Cuando el psicoanálisis no es un sueño" se formó, en palabras de su autora Carmen González Táboas, "al modo de un tapiz artesanal cuyas formas o escenas se traman pasando la aguja una y otra vez sobre una urdimbre de hilos tensos de lado a lado. Me había sucedido descubrir que lo ya vivido podía ofrecer las guías firmes por donde pasar los hilos, también ciertos hitos de mi larga experiencia de...
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While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.
In other words, the underlying messages are, meant to mitigate the circumstances of the choices you made or the ones you will make down the road ahead. Basically, it's all about paying attention to details that you may...
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"Untangling Lives: A Psychiatrist Remembers" is a memoir that focuses on how a psychiatrist separates his own personal history and experiences from the narratives of his patients in psychotherapy, particularly around the issues of loss and recovery. Dr. Nathan Billig, a psychiatrist, provides autobiographical material, patient therapy descriptions (identities and circumstances disguised), and remembered excerpts from his own personal psychoanalysis...
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¿Cómo se enseña a los niños a manejar la rabia, los celos, la vergüenza, el miedo y la tristeza? ¿Y a desarrollar la empatía o a hacer caso cuando es necesario?
Este libro es una herramienta, sencilla y eficaz, para lograrlo, para que los nicños aprendan, con nuestra ayuda, a gestionar cada emoción. La metodología que se sigue en cada uno de los 10 capítulos es la siguiente: primero se facilita una descripción teórica simple de cada...
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En una noche de vigilia en la que el alma está cerca de la razón, paralizada de manera obligada en confinamiento por la pandemia mundial de la Covid 19. Una de esas noches en la que te cuestionas todo: lo existencial y lo profesional, sentí la llamada caballeresca de quien sigue sus instintos y delirios más primogénitos de reflejar mi experiencia profesional después de 20 años de terminar la carrera de trabajo social en nuestra querida Salamanca...
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This is a story by a father and his son to detail the son's issues with PTSD after returning from multiple overseas Naval deployments as a sniper that led to several suicide attempts, including a long, convoluted plan involving multiple foreign countries. This story is both heartwarming and disturbing. Family and friends worked together to save Mark, but the military seemed indifferent to the struggles that led to this situation. This is a powerful...
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