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Circadian is a collection of lyric essays that reach beyond personal narrative and exist in the vast landscape of curiosity and intrigue. With an astute attentiveness to language and form, Chelsey Clammer poetically weaves personal stories into the narratives of different - yet connecting - fields of study. Through this, she explores experiences of trauma, mental illnesses, and the rhythmic and oscillating desires for solitude and connection. Each essay in Circadian stands as a witness to the brilliant and destructive cycles that create our lives.

Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace - and, ultimately, inspiration.

From the time she is nine years old and discovers a “Private Way” full of the wonderful and creepy creatures of the wild - spiders, deer, moles, chipmunks, and foxes - Lauren Slater finds in animals a refuge from the troubled life of her suburban home. As she matures, her bond with animals - raccoons, horses, swans, cats, and primarily, dogs - strengthens and grows more complex and compelling. They offer relief from the pain of her mother’s mental illness.

Liberalism won the "sexual revolution." But the revolutionaries are miserable. Americans are not only delaying marriage and having fewer children, but also having less sex in general, as the radical left brings politics back into the bedroom. Ironically, sex has become a potential conservative cause. Conservatism can remind us that sex is fundamentally about happiness.

Intelligent, upbeat, and sex-positive, the pieces in Best Sex Writing 2009 offer an in-depth look at sex the way it actually happens in America today. Gubernatorial sex scandals, rape fantasies, "Dear John" letters, teen sexuality, purity balls, the pregnant man, the science of screwing, bathroom sex, and other topics are scrutinized by noted columnists, bloggers, and authors in pieces that are funny, informative, challenging, sexy, and serious.

Atualmente, o interesse por técnicas como tarot ou astrologia é abundante, mas pouco se debate a prática do terapeuta holístico. Neste audiolivro, a socióloga Anahí Lucas compartilha os resultados de uma longa jornada na busca por compreender esse ofício, apoiando-se em conceitos de filosofia, história, sociologia e psicologia.

Find out what's behind the latest political sex scandals in "Sex, Lies, and Hush Money", learn about how "Atheists Do It Better" and find out "Why Lying About Monogamy Matters". From an insider look at being gay in the military pre-DADT and an impassioned defense of circumcision to a dating site for people with STDs, nuanced explorations of teen sex laws, prostitution, sex at 66, SlutWalks, female orgasm workshops, and more,

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The 25 stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, and the humor infectious.

Life is an ever-evolving journey of love, loss, self-discovery, and transformation. From the first stirrings of young adulthood to the complexities of relationships, identity, and personal reinvention, we all navigate moments of deep change—sometimes by choice, sometimes by force. Nostalgic Tendencies, Idyllic Endeavors & Current Inclinations is a profound and thought-provoking collection of essays that explores the emotional crossroads we all face, offering wisdom, reflection, and insight into the struggles and triumphs that shape who we are. This is a peppered collection of reflections ...

What's happening behind the bedroom door? The erotic elements of Twilight, scary sex laws, the future of sex ed, the science behind penis size, a cheating wife's defense of her affair, and much more make it under the covers of Best Sex Writing 2010. From the quest to create the thinnest condom ever to a night with swingers to underage sexting, Best Sex Writing 2010 covers the latest, hottest topics from the wide world of sex.

Jedes Jahr findet im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die Verleihung der Adult Video News Awards statt, der Oscars der Pornoindustrie. Im Auftrag der Zeitschrift Premiere besucht David Foster Wallace 1998 die Preisverleihung sowie die zugehörige Pornomesse und lässt sich dort von Branchenjournalisten mit so schönen Namen wie Dick Filth die subtilen Hierarchien, erbittertsten Branchenfehden und wildesten Gerüchte dieser ziemlich flamboyanten Parallelkultur näherbringen.

Videnskab har på mange måder overtaget den rolle i vores samfund, som religionen tidligere udfyldte. Det er ikke længere kirken og præsterne vi tyer til. Det er derimod biologer, læger, sociologer og psykologer, vi spørger, når vi ønsker viden om os selv og den verden vi lever i. Hvad enten det gælder sundhed, børneopdragelse, parforhold eller møntunion er det forskerne vi vender os til for at få svar. Resultater af undersøgelser præsenteres hver dag i medierne som den fikse og færdige sandhed om dette eller hint.

Sigmund Freud (Freiberg 1856 - Londra 1939) medico austriaco, fondatore della psicoanalisi, cominciò ad occuparsi di psicopatologia con gli Studi sull'isteria, scritti in collaborazione con Breuer (1892 - 1895). Nel 1900 pubblica L'interpretazione dei sogni, in cui confluiscono i dati della propria autoanalisi. Gli scritti dei decenni successivi definiscono il movimento psicoanalitico nei suoi aspetti teorici, sociali e antropologici.

Skin Deep explores beauty, ageing, imperfection, health and illness, all of which are closely related to skin, and interrogates whiteness, both historically, structurally and through current notions of white fragility and victimhood. Phillipa McGuinness has interviewed plastic surgeons, dermatologists, burn survivors, beauticians, melanoma sufferers, people who suffer from body dysmorphias, victims and perpetrators of racism and all kinds of people who are and are not comfortable in their own skin to write a book where science meets art and culture, history and politics.

Ashok Rajamani, award-winning author of the hit memoir The Day My Brain Exploded, returns with Imagine Carnivalesque, his explosive first book of bold and insightful literary criticism. Uncover the unconscious in South Asian literature through two psychoanalytical essays that deconstruct gender codes and sexuality within Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, and the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata.

Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorise their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others.

The Roots of Violence: Why Humans Are Not by Nature Violent (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 2018) is an analytical and policy study that presents abundant evidence that human beings are not by nature violent and that violence therefore is a conditioned response. The scientific disciplines examined are anthropology, biology, neurology, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.