The Mind Has Mountains

Author : Paul R. McHugh
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0801882494

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The Mind Has Mountains by Paul R. McHugh Pdf

From strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborns is cruel and misguided, Dr. Paul R. McHugh's opinions are strong and often controversial. In this collection of essays, McHugh demonstrates why he is one of the most thought-provoking figures in the academic world. These pieces argue for a realistic appraisal of just what psychiatrists know and how they know it, with the aim of indicating how such knowledge can best be used not only for better patient care but also to reflect on and influence public issues and social movements. His essays will stimulate professional and popular discussion about the goals and effectiveness of current psychiatric practice. McHugh sorts through the layers of what he terms the "culturally driven misdirection of psychiatry and psychotherapy" to explain concepts often misunderstood by nonscholars and the intellectual community alike. America's leading psychiatrist may inspire you or offend you, but he will certainly make you think.

Author : Mary Hocking
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509819621

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The Mind Has Mountains by Mary Hocking Pdf

Tom Norris has problems of his own, and chief among them is: who is he? It is a time of general stress and strain, for Tom is Assistant Education Officer to the South Sussex Council, and the County Hall, long threatened by wind and rain on its bleak headland, is about to meet its destruction at the hands of a Boundaries Commission. Where can its strange and unnerved inhabitants find another refuge? While Tom pursues his quest for identity and purpose, he reluctantly takes into his office Phoebe Huber, and otherwise rejected member of staff whose meek manner conceals a formidable gift for subversion. Tom begins by feeling sorry for Phoebe, but chaos is her natural element and she is better qualified than Tom to live in it. As little by little she takes possession of him, the South of England is hit by one of the worst blizzards in living memory. The snow blots out the familiar landscape, order breaks down both inside and outside the County Hall, the boundary between reality and fantasy grows indistinct, the wolf returns to the hills.

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Granta
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781847081575

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Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Pdf

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441176417

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The Mind of Christ by David Scott Pdf

How does anyone 'put on the mind of Christ', as Scripture commands? Can people really get so close to Christ that they not only know his mind but also take on his thinking? And what does this mean for Christian discipleship, the Church, the ordinary person of faith? David Scott, writer and poet, has reflected on this central theme of Christianity over a lifetime's ministry in the Anglican church. He writes with engaging honesty about his personal thoughts and yet brings a theological rigour to his analysis. He combines a down-to-earth practicality with profound engagement with the texts of Scripture. The result is a gem of a book. He writes as follows in his introduction. 'Put on the mind of Christ: what that phrase, with its concentration on 'mind', does not immediately evoke is the way in which the rattle-bag of feelings about things, the heartaches, the heart searchings, the lifting up of the heart have coalesced and been informed by the sharper, tougher attitudes of mind. We shall see, in the case of Jesus, that those two concepts heart and mind, become one orientation, attitude, and spring for action. They also provide one unmoveable pointer for us to a destination we trust in, as we set out to know Christ, and be known by him, and so to enter into a creative relationship with the very centre of our faith.'

Author : Anthony Holden,Frank Kermode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Critics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029139909

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The Mind Has Mountains by Anthony Holden,Frank Kermode Pdf

Author : Adam Thorpe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446498194

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Still by Adam Thorpe Pdf

' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. . ' John Fowles

Author : Elizabeth Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015047634558

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The Mind Has Mountains by Elizabeth Jennings Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Brain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000100375

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The Mind by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leslie Gilbert Elman
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781435136977

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Weird But True by Leslie Gilbert Elman Pdf

Bizarre and fascinating facts for fans of science, nature, history, and more! The Earth is broadcasting a symphony of sound right now . . . Madagascar is home to enormous suicidal palm trees . . . Blacktip sharks can reproduce by virgin birth . . . In this fascinating book, weird, true facts like these reveal just how much freaky stuff really happens around the world. We’ve uncovered odd natural phenomena, super-strange historic occurrences, downright bizarre momentous discoveries, and totally peculiar coincidences that will blow your mind. From Biblical latrines to ultimate survivor microbes, if it’s weird—and true—you’ll find it here!

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307538635

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Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Pdf

The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.

Author : Luisa Conti Camaiora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040394392

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Gray, Keats, Hopkins by Luisa Conti Camaiora Pdf

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802197535

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Ninety Degrees North by Fergus Fleming Pdf

The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals, Fergus Fleming recounts this riveting saga of humankind’s search for the ultimate goal with consummate craftsmanship and wit. “Barely a page goes by without the loss of a crew member or a body part . . . Fleming [is] a marvelous teller of tales—and a superb thumbnail biographer.” —The Observer “A fable of men driven to extremes by the lust for knowledge as epic as a Greek myth.” —Time

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082984462

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.