Why Write?
10 best books like Why Write? (Paul Auster): Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, You Can Heal Your Life, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition, The Second Common Reader, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, Complete Poems and Translations, 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...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| ISBN | 1592402038 |
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...
| Author | Louise L. Hay |
| ISBN | 8176210773 |
This book is actually dangerous. I can't remember ever having said that about a text?
I read thirty pages of it, before having to shut it and run far away.
Every single copy of it should come with a huge trigger warning for ableism, fatphobia, and victim blaming of every variety.
Louise...
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.....
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156028166 |
3.5 stars
Last year I came across The Common Reader Vol. I at a Kinokuniya Bookstore in Bangkok and ordered Vol. II immediately. In fact, these famed two volumes have been published in various editions since 1932 and I've tried to buy them for a long time. Enticed by the simple title, I've since...
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 | 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...
