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Product Description: We live in a world constantly in need of repair. Our cars break down. Marriages weaken, friendships sour, ties between nations are rent. Yet we fix things and relationships all the time, without giving these activities much thought...read more

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9780807020128 | Beacon Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World Like Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses, an exploration of a powerful but often overlooked aspect of the human psyche: our ability and instinct to fix things From clothing that develops holes from long use to fraying relationships, we seem constantly to be repairing in a breakable world.

Paperback:

9780807020111 | Beacon Pr, October 20, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: We live in a world constantly in need of repair.

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An analysis of human suffering throughout history examines the ways we perceive, think about, and act upon suffering--often inappropriately--in our day to day lives

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9780807014202 | Beacon Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An analysis of human suffering throughout history examines the ways we perceive, think about, and act upon suffering--often inappropriately--in our day to day lives

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9780807014219 | Beacon Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $18.00

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Argues that there is white middle-class bias in the feminist movement and suggests that the excluded groups must be taken into account

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9780807067451 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Argues that there is white middle-class bias in the feminist movement and suggests that the excluded groups must be taken into account

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