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Death and Dying by Nicole Piemonte; Shawn Abreu
$24.95 AUD
Category: Grief | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death ...Show more
Nihilism by Nolen Gertz
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters. When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, "an ideology of nothing. " Is nihilism, then, be ...Show more
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
$31.95 AUD
Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia--vividly felt sensory couplings--by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait--like perfect pitch--synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory ...Show more
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