Nonfiction

Nonfiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition. Note that reporting the beliefs of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the ultimate veracity of those beliefs, it is simply saying that it is true that people believe that (for such topics as mythology, religion). Nonfiction can als ...more

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

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Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games

Arjan Singh (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Apr 16, 2024

Don’t walk onto the business battlefield without the weapons and plan you need to win.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidenc ...more
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The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning

Elias Dakwar

Release date: Jun 04, 2024

Psychiatrist and scientist Elias Dakwar presents a groundbreaking yet simple framework for understanding and addressing addiction as a confusion from Psychiatrist and scientist Elias Dakwar presents a groundbreaking yet simple framework for understanding and addressing addiction as a confusion from which we are all, addicted or not, working to find freedom. Addiction is a crisis affecting millions of Americans every year. As rates of addiction and overdose deaths surge across the country, physicians, mental health professionals, and researchers scramble to help. While the prevailing model—addiction as a brain-based disease—has destigmatized addiction, it hasn’t solved the problem. Instead, as pioneering psychiatrist and researcher Elias Dakwar shows, it may be making things worse. Drawing on his research with hallucinogenic compounds and meditation-based treatments, fifteen years of clinical experience, and recent findings from neuroscience, Dakwar frames addiction as the fixed “reality” to which the imagination become captive. In a bold repudiation of the brain-disease model, he approaches addiction, not as a physical problem, but as a crisis of the creative imagination in which our all-too-human attempts to alleviate suffering and make sense of the world leads to a locked-in conception of things that only confuses things further. Addicted individuals therefore suffer acutely from what afflict us all – the fictions we create and mistake for reality. In this beautifully written and often startling exploration, Dakwar reveals how the journey towards freedom is not unique to addiction, but a passage we must all make as we work towards greater understanding, fuller relationships, and more profound peace. He makes an urgent plea for scientists to consider consciousness and meaning-making when approaching addicted individuals, and combines cutting-edge research with clinical narratives to pose and address the existential, relational, and philosophical questions that are at the heart of addiction. A leading researcher in the use of ketamine in addiction treatment, he examines how psychedelics, in combination with other practices, might be helpful clinically, and how they can also shed light on the broader systemic and cultural shifts that are needed to alleviate suffering, beginning with the most vulnerable among us. ...more
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Perception Wars: Iraq from the Outside In

Jemil Metti (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Apr 27, 2012

This book is about Metti's involuntary settlement in Iraq during the latter 50's and the entire sixth decade of the last century. It describes both pe ...more
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“ You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. ...more ”
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