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Large 9781742235653

SALE - The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania by Sam Twyford-Moore

$32.99 AUD

Category: PHILOSOPHY/PSYCH

Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids--creative and courageous--is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. With reflections on artists such as Carrie Fisher, Kanye West, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Paul Thomas Anderson and Spalding Gray, Twyford-Moore also looks at the condition in our digital world, where someone's manic episode can unfold live in real time, watched by millions. His own story, told unflinchingly, is shocking and sometimes blackly comic. It gives the book an edge that is not always comfortable but full of insight and empathy. Smart, lively and well-researched, The Rapids manages to be both a wild ride and introspective at once, exploring a condition that touches thousands of people, directly or indirectly. ...Show more

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Large 9780143789529

Perfect Motion: How Walking Makes Us Wiser by Jono Lineen

$34.99 AUD

Category: PHILOSOPHY/PSYCH | Reading Level: Adult

In Perfect Motion, Jono Lineen investigates that transformation, and why walking has made us more creative, helped us to learn, constructed our perception of time, strengthened our resilience and provided a way of making sense of our life - and death. After the tragic loss of his younger brother, Linee n experienced walking's regenerative power firsthand. Grief-stricken and adrift, he set off on a 2700-kilometre solo trek across the Himalayas. He walked for months until his legs ached and feet blistered, and by the end of the expedition something had changed in him. He was stronger - not just physically, but psychologically and emotionally. What had happened? What had given him this feeling of peace; joy even? Determined to find out, he began researching the science and history of walking and running, and discovered that there were fascinating reasons for his metamorphosis. Now, weaving together his own remarkable personal stories with evolutionary research, psychology, neuroscience, anatomy and philosophy, Lineen reveals for the first time the powerful effect that even the shortest strolls can have on us. And why walking is what we're made to do; it is our perfect motion. ...Show more

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No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu

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Category: PHILOSOPHY/PSYCH

This is Archbishop Desmond Tutu's personal account of his experience as head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This Commission was a pioneering international experiment to expose many of the worst atrocities committed under apartheid, whereby those most at fault could receive an amn esty in exchange for public disclosure of the truth about their crimes. It was also an unusual attempt to rehabilitate the dignity of the victims and, as such, deeply rooted in the African concept of humanity. But this extraordinary book will be much more than the story of the Commission - it will also broaden the debate on the merits of reconciliation after conflict to the international level. Tutu will make observations based on visits to, and experience of, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Dachau concentration camp and Rwanda - and argue that war crimes trials do not necessarily lay the basis for healing. Rather, what is needed are three key steps in a programme of reconciliation- confession and repentance; forgiveness and restitution. It is this broader canvas that will ensure the book is a major seller in many markets. ...Show more

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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan

$35.00 AUD

Category: PHILOSOPHY/PSYCH

The No.1 New York Times Bestseller 'Gripping and surprising ... Pollan makes losing your mind sound like the sanest thing a person could do' The New York Times Book Review Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the fro ntiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forwardas a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinatedby the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness. 'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' - Washington Post   'An easy-going humane generosity ... mischievous self-regard ... as if Henry David Thoreau had had an encounter with Woody Allen and never been quite the same since' - Simon Schama ...Show more

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Large 9781786632890

Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot

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Category: PHILOSOPHY/PSYCH

How can we rebuild our society? In Out of the Wreckage, George Monbiot outlines how both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society. Book jacket.

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