The Book Of Phobias And Manias

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593489764
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Phobias and Manias written by Kate Summerscale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness” The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting case studies to trace the origins of our obsessions, unearthing a history of human strangeness, from the middle ages to the present day, and a wealth of explanations for some of our most powerful aversions and desires.

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788162814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Phobias and Manias written by Kate Summerscale and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am sure this book will cause a 'mania' of its own. Thought-provoking and such fun' Ian Mortimer, bestselling author of The Time Traveller's GuidesA Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022A captivating A-Z from the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr WhicherDo you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the sight of a spider - or twitch with nomophobia when you misplace your mobile phone? Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Perhaps you find yourself mired in indecision and uncertainty? (Would it be reassuring to give this a name: aboulomania?)Our phobias and manias are contradictory and multiple: deeply intimate, yet forged by the times we live in - the commonest form of anxiety disorder, but rarely given a formal diagnosis. Plunge into this rich, surprising and fascinating A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from pre-history to the present day, as award-winning author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political.

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : Senior Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780963091932
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Excess of Phobias and Manias written by John G. Robertson and published by Senior Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782835652
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Phobias and Manias written by Kate Summerscale and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL A WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK Plunge into this rich and thought-provoking A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political. 'Fascinating' Malcolm Gaskill, author of the No. 1 bestseller The Ruin of All Witches 'Fascinating' Observer 'An endlessly intriguing book ... All the bibliomanes (book nutters) I know will love it' Daily Mail

Author : Chris Aldrich
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155369886X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families written by Chris Aldrich and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know the difference between words such as 'ananymy', 'anonymy' and 'euonymy'? Of course you are familiar with everyday terms like 'homicide' and 'suicide', but are you sure about 'felicide', 'femicide' and 'feticide'? If not, this is the book for you. The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families is an authoritative guide to a selection of almost nine thousand terms, many of which are found in specialist technical books and journals or other arcane literary sources only, and features among other: A unique arrangement of words, based on 100 familiar and not so familiar English word roots, i.e. -agogue, -ambulation, -animity, -anthropy, -archy, -aster, -biosis, -bund, -chore, -cide, -clast, -cole, -cosmic, -cracy, -culture, -deme, -demonic, -diction, -digitate, -drome, -duction, -ennial, -esthesia, -facient, -fauna, -fluence, -form, -fuge, -glot, -glyph, -gnomy, -gon, -gony, -grade, -graphy, -iatrics/iatry, -jection, -lagnia, -latry, -lepsy, -logy, -loquy/loqu-ence, -lucence, -lude, -machy, -mancy, -mathy, -mania, -mer, -mere, -metry, -mimetic, -mnesia, -nasty, -naut, -nik, -noia, -nomy, -onymy, -orama, -orexia, -ousia, -parous, -pathy, -poeia, -phagy, -phany, -phily, -phobia, -phrenia, -phyly, -polis, -poly, -potence, -rogate, -rrhoea, -ruption, -science, -script, -sere, -sexuality, -sophy, -spermia, -stat, -staxis, -taxis, -techny, -thanasia, -theism, -therapy, -therm(ia), -trophy, -tropy, -urgy, -version, -volant, -volence, -volution, -vore, -xeny. A comprehensive survey of each root listed above and an etymological explanation of each suffix. A complete alphabetical index to all main and runon entries in the book. So whether you are a media professional, crossword enthusiast or just keen to improve your vocabulary, in The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families you will find a unique reference and a valuable supplement to your standard dictionaries.

Author : Ronald D Doctor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816017980
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties written by Ronald D Doctor and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the meaning of terms and concepts related to specific phobias, forms of therapy, and medicines, and identifies key researchers.

Author : Katrin Kaufer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542226
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Money written by Katrin Kaufer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use finance as a tool to build a more equitable and sustainable society. Money defines our present and will shape our future. Every investment decision we make adds a chapter to the story of what our world will look like. Although the idea of mission-based finance has been around for decades, there is a gap between organizations' stated intention to "do good" and meaningful impact. Still, some are succeeding. In Just Money, Katrin Kaufer and Lillian Steponaitis take readers on a global tour of financial institutions that use finance as a force for good.

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408831244
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Robinson's Disgrace written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake...In one of the most notorious divorce cases of the nineteenth century, Isabella Robinson's scandalous secrets were exposed to the world. Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife's longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.

Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466860308
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Neurotica written by Jon Winokur and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world. We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter: the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica is a delightful garden of the ills that beset modern man. Entries include excerpts from both popular and arcane published works, as well as original definitions, essential terms and the occasional cutting-edge concept, such as "celebriphilia, the pathological desire to sleep with a celebrity, suffered chiefly by groupies." Some samples from Encyclopedia Neurotica: --Abyss, the: the yawning unfathomable chasm of existential terror --Acquired Situational Narcissism: a condition characterized by grandiosity, lack of empathy, rage, isolation and substance abuse; mainly afflicts celebrities, who tend to be surrounded by enablers --Denial: unconscious defense mechanism that numbs anxiety by refusing to acknowledge unpleasant realities --Manic Run: prolonged state of optimism, excitement and hyperactivity experienced as part of bipolar disorder

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241207
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning the Books written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.