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Author | : Anthony S. Abbott |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0817312021 |
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The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Author | : Daniel Goleman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0684831074 |
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A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.
Author | : ERNEST. BECKER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781788164269 |
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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
Author | : Vernon Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Pragmatism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Livingstone Smith |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2007-08-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780312310400 |
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Readers of Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker will find much to intrigue them in this fascinating book, which declares that our extraordinary ability to deceive others - and even our selves - 'lies' at the heart of our humanity.
Author | : David Farris |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061748439 |
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A prominent physician debuts as a gifted storyteller in Lie Still, a dazzlingly suspenseful and compulsively readable trip through the dark underbelly of the OR -- where reputations, careers, and lives are on the line. In a sleepy, small-town Arizona hospital, a thirteen-year-old boy lies in a coma after inexplicably suffering a cardiac arrest. His doctors are perplexed. Although emotionally disturbed Henry Rojelio was a frequent visitor to the emergency room -- often for bouts of asthma, but usually just for attention -- no one ever anticipated a battle with death. Surgical resident Malcolm Ishmail began his medical career months before at a busy Phoenix hospital -- a far cry from the small ER deep in the silent heart of the desert, where Henry Rojelio lies. There, Malcolm fell into a secret, exhausting affair with one of his professors, Dr. Mimi Lyle, a beautiful, charismatic brain surgeon who had subtle difficulties in the operating room. In a moment of weakness "Dreamy Mimi" confessed to him her failings as a neurosurgeon; Malcolm reported her to his superiors . . . and promptly lost his job. Now, miles away from Phoenix, Dr. Ishmail struggles to save his young asthmatic patient's life and his future as a surgeon. And with little time and few clues to the cause of Henry Rojelio's sudden collapse, the impressionable doctor wonders whether his former lover may have exacted a disturbing revenge. Rich in medical detail and written with stylish, razor-sharp action and dialogue, Lie Still is a gripping, emotional drama of human failings and devastating consequences that marks the debut of a remarkable new voice.
Author | : John Carreyrou |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2018-05-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1524731668 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword covering her trial and sentencing, bringing the story to a close. “Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story] virtually to perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while, Holmes and her partner, Sunny Balwani, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Current events |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nick Lane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cells |
ISBN | : 9781781250372 |
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A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.
Author | : Tommi Parrish |
Publisher | : Fantagraphics Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 168396067X |
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A friendship fumbles and falls apart after an uncertain encounter in this graphic novel from a remarkable new voice. Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships.