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018544
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New York, Picador, 2011.
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xv, 294pGrey spine
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Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores the different forms of truth-telling, and their relation to power and the law. The publication of Lectures on the Will to Know marks a milestone in Foucault's reception, and it will no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before.
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9781250050106 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I01318 | 121/FOU | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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018486
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London, Picador, 2004.
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501pWhie spine
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In the summer of 1983, young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens. He becomes caught up in their world, while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty which bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.
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9781447202523 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I01350 | 823.914/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016698
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London, Picador, 2011.
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xiii, 257pBlue Spine
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Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre world of neurological disorders. Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.
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9780330523622 Pb.
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| I00856 | 616.089/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020105
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London, Picador, 2010.
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xii, 260pMustard spine
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In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world – and The Mind’s Eye is testament to the myriad ways that we, as humans, are capable of rising to this challenge.
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9780330508902 Pb.
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| I01708 | 616.855/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020103
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Rev.& Expd. ed.
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New York, Picador, 2008xv,.
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xv, 425pBlue spine
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Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people--from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; from people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds--for everything but music.
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9780330523592 Pb.
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| I01710 | 781/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025220
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London, Picador, 2019.
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388pGreen spine
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A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat -- told from the point of view of an amazing woman. Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale. The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husband's most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.
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9789386215659 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location | IssuedTo | DueOn |
| I02418 | 823.914/DIV | Main | Issued | General | | EMP00169 | 15-Dec-2023 |
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019064
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London, Picador, 2011.
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292pBlack spine
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In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
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9780330492270 Pb.
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| I01423 | 616.8582/RON | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016855
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New York, Picador, 1997.
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261pBlack Spine
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The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple, Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene is the wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavioral scientist. Erasmus--the unlikely prince is a 300-pound ape. Brought to the Burdens' London home after escaping from animal smugglers, Erasmus is discovered to be a highly intelligent anthropoid ape, the closest thing yet to a human being. Madelene decides to save Erasmus, and between them blossoms a profound affection as deep as any human relationship. A fable for our time, The Woman and the Ape poses searching questions about the nature of love, freedom, and humanity.
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9780312427122 Pb.
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| I00938 | 839.81374/HOE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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