Retreat. How the Counterculture invented Wellness, Paperback - Matthew Ingram

What have the hippies ever done for us? Matthew Ingram explores the relationship between the summer of love and wellness, medicine, and health.

"Boys will be boys, " the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates

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Why do we give a damn about strangers?

DescriptionIn this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers t...

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In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fie...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Bill LichtensteinIllustration(s): 282 colour and black and white photosNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 202...

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian d...

Reducere. From the Financial Times's global finance correspondent, the incredible true story of the iconoclastic geeks who defied conventional wisdom and end...

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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgiment...

Publisher: Parallax PressAuthor(s): Jennifer HowdNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 129 x 181 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

Yes, You Too Can Live Off The Grid. This book will tell you how to do it all, and how to do it the right way.Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s...

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DescriptionOne of the 1960s counterculture's most fascinating characters was Kerry Wendell Thornley -- a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlig...

Reducere. An interactive learning book written to be read by children with large font and full colour pictures.Encouraging learning safely, starting out with...

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Reducere. Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class ...

Reducere. Everyone makes mistakes, and Harry Coover is no different. A brilliant scientist, Harry keeps making the same extra-sticky mistake, but he begins t...

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The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition an...

Reducere. An introvert? Great at sales? YES. Sales is a skill anyone can learn and master-and introverts are especially good at it once they learn how to lev...

A timely, ambitious and vivid history of freedom - and how it happens to be a uniquely British invention.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Daniel H...

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...

This book is no ordinary personal finance book. It presents, in a highly accessible way, how to effectively understand and manage personal finances...

Reducere. Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competitio...

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Who invented the diving helmet? The First Treasure Divers reveals the true and fascinating story. It follows the lives of two brothers as they stru...

Reducere. DIVINATION Divination is the practice of gathering information about a subject through using a particular ritual. This book will explain to you eve...

Sean Ingram has touched many lives with his ability to passionately orate through lecture or performance the importance of overcoming life's obstac...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Kerri KellyNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 29Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. "Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billi...

Reducere. This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the "rea...

Reducere. The drug policies of the Nordic countries have been relatively strict. Since this seems to contradict the internationally recognized liberal crimin...

Reducere. Tired of working for someone else, building someone else's dream, going the extra mile only to be passed over for a promotion? It's time to start y...

Medical Parenting is the essential guide for parents to take control of their child's health, from choosing a pediatrician to helping children tran...