The Second Common Reader
10 best books like The Second Common Reader (Virginia Woolf): Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, Complete Poems and Translations, Anatomy of Criticism, Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness, Why Write?, Intertextuality, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
| Author | Martin E.P. Seligman |
| ISBN | 0743222989 |
A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.
According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result...
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
| Author | David C. Pollock |
| ISBN | 1857882954 |
In this publication, the authors explore the experiences of those who have become known as third culture kids (TCKs) - children who grow up or spend a significant part of their childhood living abroad. The book is rich with real-life anecdotes and examines the nature of the TCK kid experience and its...
The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition
| Author | Tina L. Quick |
| ISBN | 1904881211 |
Never judge a book by its cover! Ha! I wish this guide was around when I was at uni. Why not update it with more global stories for those transitioning to counties other than US. Or with a more contemporary personality model like the enneagram model rather than the now somewhat limiting Myers-Briggs.....
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 1416543074 |
Roth began exploring emotional eating in her bestseller When Food Is Love. Now, two decades later, here is her masterwork: WOMEN FOOD AND GOD.
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0143104950 |
The poetry gets five stars, but the edition only gets two. With modernized spelling but no notes or context, Marlowe's translations of Ovid's Elegies and of Lucan's First Book are especially difficult to understand. This slim, inexpensive book (Dover Thrift Editions) might be useful if you already...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
| Author | Rupert Sheldrake |
| ISBN | 0892819774 |
Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life.
• A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of human creation, and the...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 1886224145 |
There is an essay at the end of Joy Williams' book 'Ill Nature' that I believe is called 'Why I Write'. Some of these short essays in Paul Auster's 'Why Write' remind me of that Joy Williams' piece. Both are well worth the read.
While there is a place for books like Strunk and White in the writer's...
| Author | Graham Allen |
| ISBN | 0415174759 |
No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, intertextuality has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional ideas about reading or writing undisturbed.
Graham...
| Author | Jacques Lacan |
| ISBN | 0393307093 |
What a relief! To know that nothing and no one depend on me to be the lone persuasive English voice exhorting you to read this! I don't have to prove anything, least of all that I have--first--completely understood and--second--can readily illuminate for you every shadowy nuance of Lacan, both within...
| Author | Hans-Georg Gadamer |
| ISBN | 0520034759 |
Gadamer gets at least three stars for everything, just because he manages to be a serious student of German philosophy, but his sentences are comprehensible on first reading 80 to 90 percent of the time. That makes... one serious student of German philosophy, who is also an original thinker in his/her...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 0823217558 |
Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence...
| Author | Sri Aurobindo |
| ISBN | 0941524655 |
My review will be biased as this is personally my favorite book. I've been working through it as my primary study for almost 4 years. I can imagine the time when all 900 or so pages are memorized, not because that is the goal, but because that will naturally occur in the process of fully understanding the...
| Author | Noah Lukeman |
| ISBN | 0199210780 |
In addition to being an active literary agent, Noah Lukeman is also author of the best-selling The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile (Simon & Schuster, 1999), which was a selection of many of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers and is part of the...
Insights into Vedanta-Tattwabodha
| Author | Sunirmalananda |
| ISBN | 8178232294 |
A thoroughgoing study of Advaita Vedanta in the light of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda's teaching has been a long-felt need. Swami Sunirmalananda, the translator of this book has made a humble attempt towards this end. Here, in this book, on each verse, the translator gives a running commentary...
Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths
| Author | C.R. Snyder |
| ISBN | 1412990629 |
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50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know
| Author | Adrian Furnham |
| ISBN | 1847246567 |
How different are men and women's brains? Does altruism really exist? Are our minds blank slates at birth? And do dreams reveal our unconscious desires? If you have you ever grappled with these concepts, or tried your hand as an amateur psychologist, "50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know" could...
Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between
| Author | Christopher O'Shaughnessy |
Everyone's got a story to tell. If your story involves growing up among different cultures – either moving between them or having them move around you – then read this book. Growing up and transitioning cross-culturally can present unexpected challenges and bestow surprising skills. This is...
