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The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S. Szasz
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about ... -
The Essays of Montaigne -- Comp - Michel de Montaigne
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The Authentic Life of Billy the - Pat F. Garrett; Fredrick Nolan
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth... -
Step Across This Line_ Collecte - Salman Rushdie
From Publishers WeeklyRoughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and Rushdie himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he r... -
Philosophy_ who needs it - Ayn Rand
SUMMARY: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of t... -
Literary Occasions_ Essays - V. S. Naipaul; Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu... -
In Rough Country_ Essays and Re - Joyce Carol Oates
SUMMARY: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is... -
I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at t... -
How to Travel With a Salmon and - Umberto Eco
In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats,... -
How Did You Get This Number (Ji - Sloane Crosley
From Publishers WeeklyNine thoughtful, unfussy essays by the author of the collection I Was Told There'd Be Cake navigate around illusions of youth in the hope that by young adult....