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Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why by Darian Leader
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient ser ...Show more
Hands What we do With them and Why by Darian Leader
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious ab ...Show more
Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader
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Category: Health
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, ...Show more
Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike, ...Show more
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression by Darian Leader
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Category: Psychology
Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In "The New Black," Darian Leader argues that this shift is ...Show more
What Is Madness? by Darian Leader
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
In What is Madness?, Darian Leader, the author of The New Black and Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? asks probing questions about madness, sanity and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is reall ...Show more
Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader
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Category: Health
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as hav ...Show more
Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? by Darian Leader
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not posted, at whom is it really directed? As psychoanalyst Darian Leader shows, such questions go to the heart of sexual desire, which is never ...Show more
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