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10 best books like The Human Figure (John H. Vanderpoel): Inferno, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, The Liars' Club, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, The Merchant of Death, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health, Keys to Drawing, The Hundred Headless Woman, The Yellow Wallpaper

Inferno
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0812970063
I just want to start off by saying that "Through me you enter into the City of Woes" would make an EXCELLENT tramp stamp. Jump on it!

Being that I am an atheist living in the "Bible Belt," I was certain that reading this would lead to some sort of goodreads tirade, which can at times feel about as good...
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
AuthorMihaly Csikszentmihalyi
ISBN0060920432
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Книга «Поток» представляет собой очень нетривиальный подход к проблемам эмоциональной жизни человека и регуляции поведения. Радость...
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
AuthorMalcolm Gladwell
ISBN0316078573
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell...
The Liars' Club
AuthorMary Karr
ISBN0143035746
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
AuthorRhoda Janzen
A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis

Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen...
The Merchant of Death
AuthorD.J. MacHale
ISBN0743437314
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DENDURON

BOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.

He is going to save the world.

And...
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
AuthorT. Colin Campbell
ISBN1932100660
More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found...
Keys to Drawing
AuthorBert Dodson
ISBN0891343377
Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw.

In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system--fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner.

These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw...
The Hundred Headless Woman
AuthorMax Ernst
ISBN0807610240


This is German artist Max Ernst's collage-novel. He beckons us to provide our own personal interpretation to the captions and surreal collages he constructed from old picture books and journal so that we create our own version of the story. I did exactly that – and created my own micro fiction...
The Yellow Wallpaper
AuthorCharlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN0312132921
This edition of The Yellow Wallpaper features historical materials which include nineteenth-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the nature of women's sexuality; social reform literature concerning women's rights, the working classes, and immigration;...
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