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Product Description: This book is a clarion call to artists, writers, and scientists to explore their willingness to wonder and drive to discover. Inspired by a quote from Ray Bradbury, âExplode Every Dayâ is a bold new exhibition harnessing the energy of wonder...read more
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9783791355658 | Prestel Pub, August 25, 2016, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This book is a clarion call to artists, writers, and scientists to explore their willingness to wonder and drive to discover.
Hardcover:
9780375401459 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1999), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death
9780756765590 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions: around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults.
Paperback:
9781447219569 | Pan Macmillan, January 5, 2012, cover price $25.35
9780375701474 | Vintage Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death.
Product Description: From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer...read more
Hardcover:
9780307265371 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 15, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.
The author shares the story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression, presenting a cultural analysis of how mental illness is perceived and perpetuated within African American communities.
Hardcover:
9780767913539 | Broadway Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author shares the story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression, presenting a cultural analysis of how mental illness is perceived and perpetuated within African American communities.
Miscellaneous:
9780307419309 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $22.95
Product Description: The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist...read more
Hardcover:
9780195135794 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 22, 2007), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness.
An international expert in the field of mood disorders and best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of exuberance and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780375401442 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 15, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of exuberance and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival.
Paperback:
9780375701481 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explores the role of exuberance in humankind's most important creative and scientific accomplishments, discussing the nature of joy and its relationship to intellectual curiosity, creativity, risk-taking, and survival.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739316818 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 28, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author of the bestselling An Unquiet Mind–and internationally renowned authority on mood disorders–now gives us something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780739316801 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 28, 2004), cover price $25.95
Hardcover:
9781565847217 | New Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Uses photographs and first person accounts edited from interviews with family members to profile forty-four families in which at least one member has been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.
Paperback:
9781565847866 | New Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Uses photographs and first person accounts edited from interviews with family members to profile forty-four families in which at least one member has been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.
Paperback:
9788472239623 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Narrativa inquietante: una mente inquieta e pulsante
Product Description: Kay Redfield revela que muchos artistas que fueron vÃctimas de grandes alteraciones del humor, entre la exaltación y la melancolÃa, en realidad lucharon toda su vida contra la enfermedad maniaco-depresiva. La autora presenta una visión sobre la neurobiologÃa de dicha enfermedad, y aplica estos conocimientos en la investigación que realizó sobre las biografÃas de Lord Byron, Van Gogh, Shelley, Poe, Melville, Schumann y Virginia Woolf, entre otros...read more
Paperback:
9789681653255 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Kay Redfield revela que muchos artistas que fueron vÃctimas de grandes alteraciones del humor, entre la exaltación y la melancolÃa, en realidad lucharon toda su vida contra la enfermedad maniaco-depresiva.
Paperback:
9789990221695 | Random House Inc, January 30, 1997, cover price $0.02
Hardcover:
9780679443742 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The personal story of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments
Paperback:
9780679763307 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The personal story of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780679447764 | Random House, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The personal story of a manic depressive and authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years, and her determined journey through the range of available treatments.
Miscellaneous:
9781439106631 | Free Pr, October 18, 1996, cover price $12.99
Product Description: The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind.One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron)...read more
Hardcover:
9780029160305 | Free Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the link between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament focuses on the medical histories of some creative geniuses
Paperback:
9780684831831, titled "Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament" | Reissue edition (Free Pr, October 18, 1996), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind.
9780029160039 | Free Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka | About this edition: An analysis of the link between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament focuses on the medical histories of some creative geniuses
Product Description: The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. No other mental disorder has been the subject of such clinically useful and scientifically productive research...read more
Hardcover:
9780195039344 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The revolution in psychiatry that began mid-century has led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness.
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