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Ageless Memory: The Memory Expert's Prescription for a Razor-Sharp Mind
Harry Lorayne.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781579128241.  Daedalus Item Code: 38699
 
Maybe you've never lost track of which book you're after on the shelf, but if you keep forgetting what you opened the fridge for, where you put your keys, or the name of the neighbor who's introduced ... (Read More)
 
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143114161.  Daedalus Item Code: 89643
 
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Alan Greenspan took part in a quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. But ... (Read More)
 
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The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
Pat Shipman.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393070545.  Daedalus Item Code: 23868
 
In this remarkable new perspective on the human love of animals, anthropologist Pat Shipman reveals that the domestication of animals has not only changed them, it has had a profound developmental ... (Read More)
 
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The Beatles: The Illustrated and Updated Edition of the Best-selling Authorized Biography
Hunter Davies.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393328868.  Daedalus Item Code: 23870
 
The only authorized biographer of the Beatles, Hunter Davies spent 18 months with them when they were at the peak of their musical creativity and popularity, earning their trust and encouragement, ... (Read More)
 
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The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
Jesse Bering.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393072990.  Daedalus Item Code: 23871
 
Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who ... (Read More)
 
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Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
Ekow Eshun.
Publisher: Pantheon.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375424182.  Daedalus Item Code: 83654
 
At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, ... (Read More)
 
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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
Greg Pahl.
Publisher: Chelsea Green.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781933392127.  Daedalus Item Code: 00652
 
In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
 
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Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Mary Catherine Bateson.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307266439.  Daedalus Item Code: 23499
 
The author of Composing a Life and a professor emerita of anthropology and English at George Mason University—as well as the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson—Mary Catherine ... (Read More)
 
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Dream I Tell You
Helene Cixous. Beverley Bie Brahic, trans.
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780231138833.  Daedalus Item Code: 93184
 
For years, Hélène Cixous—a French literature professor and the author of Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint—has been writing down fragments of her dreams immediately after ... (Read More)
 
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A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
Louis Breger.
Publisher: Basic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780465017355.  Daedalus Item Code: 12435
 
In 1877, a young Sigmund Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work Studies on Hysteria. Freud ... (Read More)
 
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Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East
Bernard Lewis.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195144215.  Daedalus Item Code: 20782
 
In this book the author of The Middle East, The Muslim Discovery of Europe, and What Went Wrong? illuminates the role of religion in the Middle East, describing how it has shaped ... (Read More)
 
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780679422846.  Daedalus Item Code: 21510
 
"As he did unforgettably in A Bright Shining Lie, [Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Neil] Sheehan here tells the story both of a warrior and of a war, in this case a cold one. The ... (Read More)
 
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