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Follies of the Wise

Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593761503
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Follies of the Wise written by Frederick Crews and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and Berkeley professor of thirty years Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought — Freudian psychoanalytic theory — that had skepticism built into it. He gradually realized, however, that true skepticism is an attitude of continual questioning. The more closely Crews examined the logical structure and institutional history of psychoanalysis, the more clearly he realized that Freud's system of thought lacked empirical rigor. Indeed, he came to see Freudian theory as the very model of a modern pseudoscience. Follies of the Wise contains Crews's best writing of the past fifteen years, including such controversial and widely quoted pieces as "The Unknown Freud" and "The Revenge of the Repressed," essays whose effects still reverberate today. In addition, his topics range from "Intelligent Design" creationism to theosophy, from psychological testing to UFO zaniness, from American Buddhism to the current state of literary criticism. A single theme animates his bracing and witty discussions: the temptation to reach for deep wisdom without attending to the little voice that asks, "Could I, by any chance, be deceiving myself here?"

Follies of the Wise

Author : Frederick C. Crews
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781593761011
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Follies of the Wise written by Frederick C. Crews and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of lighthearted essays and reviews by the author of The Pooh Perplex explores Freudian psychoanalytic theory and skepticism, describing how the author came to believe that Freud's system lacked empirical rigor and served as a model of modern pseudoscience.

Treasury of Thought

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Treasury of Thought written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wise Follies

Author : Grace Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Headline Accent
ISBN 13 : 1429494492
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Wise Follies written by Grace Wynne-Jones and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why waving goodbye to Mr Wonderful may be the wisest folly of all... Alice Evans has got a GSOH, GFCH (gas-fired central heating), a cat and a Mitsubishi colour portable. People have told her she can look pretty if she tries. She's thirty-eight and single, so will someone please pass the message on? What Alice thinks she needs is Mr Wonderful. A man like her pottery teacher, James Mitchel, who's warm and wise and gorgeous. But as one long, hot summer disappears with no sign of her snaring the man of her dreams, Alice is forced to consider the alternatives. Should she settle for Mr Mediocre, her dull but dependable ex boyfriend Eamon, and spend the rest of her days trying to like golf? Or could there be another way for a woman to ditch all the longing - and really start living her life?

Foreign Follies

Author : Doug Bandow
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1597819883
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Follies written by Doug Bandow and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States once was a traditional republic, remaining aloof from foreign conflicts. Today no problem on earth is exempt from Washington's meddling. The result is an oversize military, perpetual intervention, and consistent conflict, according to Bandow, who says it's time for a new foreign policy.

The Praise of Folly

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Praise of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scripture Proverbs, Illustrated, Annotated, and Applied

Author : Francis Jacox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Scripture Proverbs, Illustrated, Annotated, and Applied written by Francis Jacox and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edge-tools of Speech

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Edge-tools of Speech written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Wit and Wisdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wake Up, Percy Gloom

Author : Cathy Malkasian
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 160699638X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Wake Up, Percy Gloom written by Cathy Malkasian and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist and animator Cathy Malkasian follows up her 2007 graphic novel Percy Gloom (a minor classic) with the further adventures of the small, immortal man with a light-up head. In Wake Up, Percy Gloom, kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. As Percy goes on a quest to locate his mother, he encounters many inspired inventions and bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, characters and situations, such as singing goats and furniture parades. Through it all he pines for his long-lost love and soul mate, Miss Margaret―but his love may not be as doomed as he thinks. Malkasian’s lush and detailed pencil drawings, surreal humor, absurdist characters and stunning visual storytelling ensure that fans of the first graphic novel will find the sequel just as fantastical, touching, and hilarious; new readers will discover a gorgeously rendered world of luminous landscapes, gentle humor, and a cast composed variously of wise, naive, and flawed characters in a wide-ranging story that stands on its own.

Treasury of Thought. Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385471362
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Treasury of Thought. Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

Author : Michael Keen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691199981
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue written by Michael Keen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts—and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. In this entertaining book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a fascinating and informative tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic—from the plundering described by Herodotus and an Incan tax payable in lice to the (misremembered) Boston Tea Party and the scandals of the Panama Papers. Along the way, readers meet a colorful cast of tax rascals, and even a few tax heroes. While it is hard to fathom the inspiration behind such taxes as one on ships that tended to make them sink, Keen and Slemrod show that yesterday’s tax systems have more in common with ours than we may think. Georgian England’s window tax now seems quaint, but was an ingenious way of judging wealth unobtrusively. And Tsar Peter the Great’s tax on beards aimed to induce the nobility to shave, much like today’s carbon taxes aim to slow global warming. Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue is a surprising and one-of-a-kind account of how history illuminates the perennial challenges and timeless principles of taxation—and how the past holds clues to solving the tax problems of today.

Follies of God

Author : James Grissom
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101972777
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Follies of God written by James Grissom and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

Wise Follies C

Author : Grace Wynne-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780401817254
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Wise Follies C written by Grace Wynne-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Freud

Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627797173
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Freud written by Frederick Crews and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.

A Dictionary of Thoughts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Thoughts written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Thoughts

Author : Tryon Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Thoughts written by Tryon Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: