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ISBN: 9781594204227
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Published: Penguin Press - May 15th, 2018
Michael Pollan does it again! This book is a fascinating view into the world of psychedelics from the vantage point of a skeptical journalist. Part science, part history, part personal journey, Pollan weaves a narrative that is both highly entertaining and deeply interesting. The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is revealed in depth. Anyone who is interested in the science of the mind or the experience of psychedelics will enjoy this book. ~ Reviewed by Chris Morrow
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ISBN: 9781630514594
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Published: Chiron Publications - January 15th, 2018
This is a unique distillation of the myth of the mysterious figure of the Fisher King. Pines delves into the depths of the human condition through personal stories that blend and balance his quest to "Heal the wound" in each of us and the world itself. By fishing the depths of the ocean (and our own psyche) through history, spirituality & psychoanalysis, metaphor and even Monty Python, Pines achieves a wondrously wrought book of insight. A Knightly endeavor. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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ISBN: 9780393249897
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2017
In a time and age when death seems more commercialized than ever and America more removed from our grief practices than ever, Doughty reminds us there are other ways. For anyone who has a tendency to say Just leave me out in the woods or talks about wishing they could go out Vikings style, Doughty discusses death customs with the ease of any other dinner conversation topic. She sets forth not to make her readers as comfortable with death as she, a mortician, is, but at the very least to convince the death-phobic to examine why they feel the way they feel about death. It is not that death is inherently off putting, but rather that we have been conditioned to approach it in such a sterile, unsentimental manner, and if treating death as a business is something we have been taught, then can we not teach ourselves how to make it into ceremony again? ~ Reviewed by Hanna Yost
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ISBN: 9781681773247
Published: Pegasus Books - February 14th, 2017
When it comes to living with death we have it all wrong here in the west (specifically the U.S. and the U.K.). We live with it everyday, share the same air and yet we ignore and push it aside like some evil obnoxious step-child we'd prefer never existed. And that is what makes life much harder for us whenever death decides to come to dinner. Schillace addresses this conflict and explores other cultures and newly emerging practices to pose new ideas and new means of accepting and celebrating this fundamental aspect of existence in our lives. ~ Reviewed by Alex Bell
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ISBN: 9780393249897
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2017
A fascinating study on the varying death practices that exist throughout multiple locations in the modern world. Before you run the other way, take a moment to allow yourself to be curious about the bizarreness of human death rituals. Why are we so afraid to discuss death and what happens to the bodies of ourselves and our loved ones when we pass away? Doughty constructs a way to keep the reader pondering how the funeral home industries of the Western world have shaped our ways of viewing the dead in comparison to other parts of the globe that value a unique kinship with the deceased. ~ Reviewed by Laura Knapp
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ISBN: 9780316356541
Published: Little, Brown and Company - August 1st, 2017
19 year old track star Maddy Holleran committed suicide in her freshman year at Penn. Fagan examines Maddy's friendships, family ties, and voluminous social media posts for clues to her horrid emotional disintegration. The search is full supposition, conjecture, and the heartbreaking mystery of what made Maddy run. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
