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Who Said

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Who Said

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Hecht repurposes texts and creates a magic echo chamber, bringing the lines and lyrics of long-gone friends to the table.

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Copper Canyon Press

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1556594496

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The Happiness Myth

Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

By: Jennifer Hecht

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The Happiness Myth

Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

By: Jennifer Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht explodes the myths about happiness, liberating us from the message that there's only one way to care for our hearts, minds, and bodies.

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Harper Collins

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0061744891

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A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our “secular age” in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment’s insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.

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Yale University Press

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0300187092

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9780300187090

Funny

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Funny

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, and somehow ruthless. This is poetry that swarms with ideas, that revels in rhythmic intricacy and literary references, but is also clear as a bell, and tells marvelous stories.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299214044

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The Wonder Paradox

Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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The Wonder Paradox

Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry. Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection? We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live—in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can’t be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry. In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Jennifer Michael Hecht offers ways to mine and adapt the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world—Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others—she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, our very being, and poetry itself. Our capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; The Wonder Paradox celebrates that instinct and that yearning.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374716560

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Funny

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

By: Jennifer Hecht

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The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

By: Jennifer Hecht

On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism. With this group as its focus, The End of the Soul is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew in the context of an impassioned struggle between the forces of tradition, especially the Catholic faith, and those of a more freethinking modernism, and moreover that it became for many a secular religion. Among the adherents of this new faith discussed here are the novelist Emile Zola, the great statesman Leon Gambetta, the American birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes embodied the triumph of ratiocination over credulity. Boldly argued, full of colorful characters and often bizarre battles over science and faith, this book represents a major contribution to the history of science and European intellectual history.

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Columbia University Press

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0231502389

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A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

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The Wonder Paradox

Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

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Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

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Doubt: A History

The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Doubt: A History

The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

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In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin—and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists.

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Harper Collins

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0062031392

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Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals

By: Dr Jennifer L Shaw

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Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals

By: Dr Jennifer L Shaw

The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals). This study pays careful attention to the complex interrelationship between the photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus, and explores how Cahun's work calls into question both the dominant culture of interwar France and the avant-garde of the era.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140940787X

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The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

By: Jennifer Hecht

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Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

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Who Said

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Hecht repurposes texts and creates a magic echo chamber, bringing the lines and lyrics of long-gone friends to the table.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

Comprehensive index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos. Includes biographies on over 3 million people from the beginning of time through the present. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective and general works that cover both contemporary and historical figures.

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Gale Cengage

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0787612723

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9780787612726

Interpersonal Communication

Putting Theory Into Practice

By: Denise Solomon,Jennifer Theiss

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Interpersonal Communication

Putting Theory Into Practice

By: Denise Solomon,Jennifer Theiss

Interpersonal Communication: Putting Theory into Practice draws on theory and research in the interpersonal communication discipline to help you identify strategies to improve your communication skills. You will learn to use what researchers have discovered about interpersonal communication to improve your own ability to communicate well. You will also read about contemporary research in interpersonal communication, a foundation for establishing skill-building tips. When you have finished reading this text, you will be better prepared to communicate effectively in all areas of your world, with skills and understanding that you can use to improve your interactions with the people around you.

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Routledge

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0415807514

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9780415807517

Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary

By: Jennifer Mossman

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Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary

By: Jennifer Mossman

A guide to pseudonyms, pen names, nicknames, epithets, stage names, cognomens, aliases, and sobriquets of twentieth-century persons, including the subjects' real names, basic biographical information, and citations for the sources from which the entries were compiled. Covers authors, sports figures, entertainers, politicians, military leaders, underworld figures, religious leaders, and other contemporary personalities.

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Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company

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0810305496

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9780810305496

Holidays and Anniversaries of the World

A Comprehensive Catalogue Containing Detailed Information on Every Month and Day of the Year ...

By: Jennifer Mossman

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Holidays and Anniversaries of the World

A Comprehensive Catalogue Containing Detailed Information on Every Month and Day of the Year ...

By: Jennifer Mossman

A comprehensive catalogue containing detailed information on every month and day of the year ...

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Detroit : Gale Research

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0810348705

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9780810348707

The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

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The End of the Soul

Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

By: Jennifer Michael Hecht

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that "thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.

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0231128460

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