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    Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

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  • A Scientist in Wonderland

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  • Freud

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    From the master of Freud debunkers, a critical biography that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator.Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has ... Leer más

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  • The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

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  • The Day of Shelly's Death

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    This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her ... Leer más

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