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The Man Who Wasn't There

Author : Anil Ananthaswamy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101984325
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wasn't There written by Anil Ananthaswamy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society by examining a range of neuropsychological ailments from autism and Alzheimer’s to out-of-body experiences and body integrity identity disorder Award-winning science writer Anil Ananthaswamy smartly explores the concept of self by way of several mental conditions that eat away at patients’ identities, showing we learn a lot about being human from people with a fragmented or altered sense of self. Ananthaswamy travelled the world to meet those who suffer from “maladies of the self” interviewing patients, psychiatrists, philosophers and neuroscientists along the way. He charts how the self is affected by Asperger’s, autism, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, among many other mental conditions, revealing how the brain constructs our sense of self. Each chapter is anchored with stories of people who experience themselves differently from the norm. Readers meet individuals in various stages of Alzheimer’s disease where the loss of memory and cognition results in the loss of some aspects of the self. We meet a woman who recalls the feeling of her first major encounter with schizophrenia which she describes as an outside force controlling her. Ananthaswamy also looks at several less familiar conditions, such as Cotard’s syndrome, in which patients believe they are dead, and those with body integrity identity disorder, where the patient seeks to have a body part amputated because it “doesn’t belong to them.” Moving nimbly back and forth from the individual stories to scientific analysis The Man Who Wasn’t There is a wholly original exploration of the human self which raises fascinating questions about the mind-body connection.

The Man who Wasn't There

Author : Ethan Coen
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571212507
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Wasn't There written by Ethan Coen and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2001 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised shooting script.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755634365
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wasn't There written by Richard Bradford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway's work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer's private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this new biography, which includes previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archives, Richard Bradford reveals how Hemingway all but erased his own existence through a lifetime of invention and delusion, and provides the reader with a completely new understanding of the Hemingway oeuvre.

The Man in the High Castle

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547572484
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the High Castle written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.

The Man Who Was There

Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496203267
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Was There written by Wright Morris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it first appeared in 1945, this novel disconcerted a good many critics: Agee Ward, "the man who was there" of the title, ostensibly is the man who is not there--a member of the armed forces in World War II, he has been reported missing in action. Yet as we are shown various views of Agee and how he continues to affect the lives of others--among them Grandma Herkimer and Private Reagan, who knew him in boyhood; Peter Spavic and Mrs. Krickbaum, who refuse to believe that he is missing; Miss Gussie Newcomb, his landlady and (to her surprise) his heir--we come to perceive what Agee had in mind when he said "that anything really alive just went on and on."

There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky

Author : Teri Sloat
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780805067514
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky written by Teri Sloat and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a child looks up to find drawings on the ceiling of a cave, she wonders how they were painted. Planets that spin, the birds and the beasts, woman and man--how did the old man in the sky paint it all? Based on the 1879 discovery of ceiling paintings in Spain's Altamira Cave, this imaginative story expresses the awe of contemplating the creation of the world and locating beauty in an unexpected place. Children will revel in this timeless tale with truly breathtaking images.

There's No Crying in the Man's World

Author : Stephanie Aldrich
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595433413
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book There's No Crying in the Man's World written by Stephanie Aldrich and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's generally accepted that men rule the business world. But if you're a woman just starting your foray into this male-dominated arena, you might be wondering how to navigate it. A step-by-step instruction manual, There's No Crying in the Man's World will help you play the game by the men's rules. Drawing on her experience as a businesswoman in a mostly male-dominated profession, Dr. Stephanie Aldrich helps you define what a powerful, modern woman is and shows you how to become that woman in the business world. She delves into the reasons why men don't want to work with women and reveals how to turn your liabilities into assets. With clear, concise language, Dr. Aldrich discusses the importance of defining what your goals are, and then how to formulate and reach them. In addition, she teaches you how to: Notice the problems in your work environment Express your opinion at work Utilize your femininity to your advantage Use effective communication in your presentations And much more! Don't let intimidation and scare tactics keep you from having the career you want and deserve. Let There's No Crying in the Man's World be your personal guide to accomplishing your dream!

The Man Who Wasn't There

Author : Anil Ananthaswamy
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715653954
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wasn't There written by Anil Ananthaswamy and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the mind boggling neuroscience connecting brain, body, mind, and society, by examining a range of brain disorders, in the tradition of Oliver Sacks. Identifying what makes up the nature of the human mind has long been neuroscience's greatest challenge - a mystery perhaps never to be fully understood. Award-winning author and master of science journalism Anil Ananthaswamy smartly explores the concept of self by way of several mental conditions that alter patients’ identities, showing how we learn a lot about being human from people with a fragmented or altered sense of self. He travels the world to meet those who suffer from “maladies of the self” interviewing patients, psychiatrists, philosophers and neuroscientists along the way. He charts how the self is affected by Asperger’s, autism, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, schizophrenia, among many other mental conditions, revealing how the brain constructs our sense of self. Each chapter is anchored with stories of people who experience themselves differently from the norm. The Man Who Wasn’t There is a magical mystery tour of scientific analysis and philosophical pondering, now utterly transformed by recent advances in cutting-edge neuroscience. ***PRAISE FOR THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE*** ‘Ananthaswamy excels at making theoretical concepts and experimental procedures both comprehensible and compelling.’ Science ‘If you simply want to read a great science book, I can't recommend any more highly than this one.’ Forbes ‘A compelling and entertaining look at the last untapped mystery, the true final frontier: the nature of our selves. Science journalism at its best.’ Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind 'An agreeably written travelogue through this mysterious landscape at the frontiers of knowledge.' The Wall Street Journal 'You’ll never see yourself—or others—the same way again.' People 'Ananthaswamy’s remarkable achievement is to make sense of these unhappy individuals’ otherness, while holding on to their human sameness. You’ll come away enlightened and chastened, asking searching questions about who you are.' Nicholas Humphrey, author of A History of the Mind 'It is an astonishing journey and an ambitious book, bringing together cutting-edge science and philosophy from West and East. You will not be quite the same self after reading it.' New Scientist

The Man Who Wasn't All There

Author : David Handler
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448305071
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Wasn't All There written by David Handler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of hard work on his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change of scenery will do him good - and he knows just the place. His ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a few days' rest and relaxation. Hoagy expects fall splendor, long walks and crisp night air. He doesn't expect Merilee's eccentric, unwelcoming neighbor. Austin Talmadge warns Hoagy not to get on his bad side, but what harm can a country oddball like Austin do? Quite a lot, it turns out. All Hoagy wants to do is relax and clear his head, but soon he's caught up in a strange, complex mystery - and he'll need all his wits about him, and Lulu's unerring nose, if he's to come out of this one alive . . .

No Country for Old Men

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307390535
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

That Man There!

Author : Tom Cotton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471796299
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book That Man There! written by Tom Cotton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal memoir of UK National Service, 1954-55, by a former Gunner of the Royal Artillery. Locations move from Oswestry (basic training) to Colchester, Dortmund, Salisbury Plain (advanced training) and back to Germany. The author's principal service was as a Technical Assistant (TARA) with no. 176 (Abu Klea) Field Battery RA (then a part of 45 Field Regiment).

Being There

Author : Jerzy Kosinski
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195814
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Being There written by Jerzy Kosinski and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, brilliant novel starring Chauncey Gardiner, an enigmatic man who rises from nowhere to become a media phenomenon—“a fabulous creature of our age” (Newsweek). One of the most beloved novels by the New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of The Painted Bird and Pinball, Being There is the story of a mysterious man who finds himself at the center of Wall Street and Washington power—including his role as a policy adviser to the president—despite the fact that no one is quite sure where he comes from, or what he is actually talking about. Nevertheless, Chauncey “Chance” Gardiner is celebrated by the media, and hailed as a visionary, in this satirical masterpiece that became an award-winning film starring Peter Sellers. As wise and timely as ever, Being There is “a tantalizing knuckleball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters” (Time).

Was There a Fifth Man?

Author : Wilfrid Basil Mann
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483147134
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Was There a Fifth Man? written by Wilfrid Basil Mann and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was There a Fifth Man? Quintessential Recollections presents the author's personal account of his professional life as an experimental physicist in the service, at different times, of each of the three countries that joined forces at the Quebec Conference in 1943 to produce the atom bomb. The author has been identified, though always in a way which was just short of actionable, with the so-called ""Fifth Man"" of the long-running British spy saga. For his sake and that of his family, he felt duty-bound to set the record straight before myth had time to trespass on history. Making extensive use of dated correspondence and publications, he shows precisely where he was at the times that an individual called ""Basil"" was supposed to have been operating in collusion with Donald Maclean at the British Embassy in Washington. He claims that the misfit between ""Basil"" and himself is epitomized by the fact that when Basil was supposed to be entering the scene in Washington for an extensive sojourn, the author was actually leaving Washington for the United Kingdom.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Author : Jon Ronson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451665970
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Men Who Stare at Goats written by Jon Ronson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges, this New York Times bestseller is a disturbing and often hilarious look at the U.S. military's long flirtation with the paranormal—and the psy-op soldiers that are still fighting the battle. Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and—perhaps most chillingly—kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren’t joking. What’s more, they’re back—and they’re fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious “Goat Lab,” to Uri Geller’s covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read—if only because it is all true and is still happening today.

Don’t Go There

Author : Adam Fletcher
Publisher : Adam Fletcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don’t Go There written by Adam Fletcher and published by Adam Fletcher. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much would you risk to change your life? Would you go where everyone else is trying to leave? Bestselling author Adam Fletcher did… In this unusual, hilarious travel memoir, he visits ten of the strangest places on earth. There's something he wants to know. Something no-one is telling him. To find the answer he’ll enter a blizzard in China armed with only a pack of biscuits; ponder the apocalypse in Chernobyl; be chased by the Croatian police on his way to Liberland (the world’s newest country); stalk the Sheriff of Transnistria (its most corrupt); and come face-to-face with two (dead) dictators in North Korea (its most dystopian), and much more. Packed full of interesting characters, unusual destinations, and British humour, this is an unforgettable journey with an award-winning travel writer that’s a mixture of Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, and Douglas Adams. But this quest to understand the world (and himself) will also threaten his sanity, safety and relationship to his eccentric German girlfriend, Annett. Will he make it back safely? Will anyone be waiting when he does? What do you give the dictator that has everything? Discover the answer in Don’t Go There… The books in this series can be read in any order.

A Man in Full

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429960698
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Man in Full written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

The Man Who Would Be King

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112705
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be King written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features five of the author's best early stories: title selection plus "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie," "Without Benefit of Clergy" and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes."