books about: itself     books:     Itself      The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (In-formation) Nikolas Rose Princeton University Press, 2006 For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of ...             The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself Lawrence E. Harrison Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Reality is the cure for ideology. I must say that reading this book was a quantum leap from the last several political books that I've read, which were written by pundits. This book is a bit dry at times, but it contains real reasearch about reality. The "take home lesson" I got out of reading ...             The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can ... Mindy Starns Clark Harvest House Publishers, 2007 Thinking Outside the Mop & Broom This book is a great way to FINALLY get your home neat and clean, for good. Just like dieting is a quick fix to loose weight, but doesn't keep the pounds off, spurts of frantic cleaning right before guests come over won't keep your home clean once the guests leave. ...             Spontaneous Healing : How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself Andrew Weil Ballantine Books, 2000 A must read In Spontaneous Healing, Dr. Andrew Weil describes his revolutionary ideas for a new type of medicine, one that is desperately needed in our times. A medicine that works in conjuction with your body's natural healing ability, without the overliance on toxic drugs ...             The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) Joe Abercrombie Pyr, 2007 Savage While I admit that the characters are entertaining, the pace lively, and the style impressive; this books greatest achievement is its sheer savagery. For the scenes of Glotka torturing, the northmen rampaging, and best of all Logen's battle sequence, this book is worth ...             The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. ... Norman Doidge Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Remarkable insight on the human brain from the frontiers of science This has to be one of the most fascinated works I've come across in a while. The main premise of the book is the extraordinary plasticity of the human brain. The author makes a compelling argument, supported by endless and very valuable examples, studies and facts to ...             The Blade Itself: A Novel Marcus Sakey St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007 Top-Notch Thriller!! The moment I turned the first page, I could not stop thinking about what could happen next. Marcus Sakey delivers crisp and intriguing pages that fly by with non-stop suspense. Sakey has truly begun with a bang.             How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects Nita Engle Watson-Guptill, 2007 must have This is the best book on water color technique around. Nita Engle is way ahead of the pack in her endless creativity and ways of applying watercolor to paper or illustration board. The results are always water media, not mixed media. Her palette is dated, but ...             The Thing Itself Richard Todd Riverhead Hardcover, 2008 A charming and thoughtful book I loved this book and want to read it again. When I first read it, alone in my living room, I nodded, grunted, and laughed out loud. A few sections made my eyes fill with tears. I kept thinking, "I've got to buy a copy of this for so-and-so." Todd begins with an ...             A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music George E. Lewis University Of Chicago Press, 2008 The avant-garde jazz compendium George E. Lewis has written a superlative history of avant-garde jazz and The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. I am truly amazed with his research, depth of understanding and what he is teaching me. I get the value of being one of his students ...             Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty (Cultural Memory in ... Richard Rorty Stanford University Press, 2005 A Thought-Provoking Read It's easy to find paradoxes in Richard Rorty's thinking. He's an academic philosopher who has no faith in philosophical systems, a thinker who rejects the label "relativist" but disbelieves in the idea of absolute Truth, a liberal social observer who has Utopian hopes ...             101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself Jerome Blackman Routledge, 2003 learner's opinion As a beginner in the study of Freudian concepts I found this book very helpful with its comprehensive list of defenses and their approximate order of appearance. A few of the defenses however have rather ellusive definitions that might be reviewed in future editions.             Doctor Murray's Total Body Tune-Up: Slow Down the Aging Process, Keep Your System Running Smoothly, Help Your ... Michael Murray Bantam, 2001 Comprehensive, well-organized, easy to read and understand! Dr. Murray really has written a "whole body" book. By coming from the naturopathic viewpoint, he has made achieving and maintaining optimum health an obtainable goal without a lot of side-effect inducing prescriptions. He does not just list a series of steps to ...             A Mind That Found Itself: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery Clifford Whittingham Beers Classic Books Library, 2007 A firsthand account of insanity and recovery.             The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself David Bushnell University of California Press, 1993 Much more than drugs and violence This is the best English language history of Colombia available. It follows the history of the country, from its disjointed past to its integrated yet violent present. 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