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    One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays

    Adam Phillips

    Throughout his career, Adam Phillips has lent a fresh and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay. This title collects nineteen pieces that have best defined his thinking…

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    On Wanting to Change

    Adam Phillips

    A dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives by Britain’s foremost psychoanalyst –

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    Houdini’s Box: The Art of Escape

    Adam Phillips

    This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a…

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    Promises, Promises

    Adam Phillips

    This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom…

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    Terrors and Experts

    Adam Phillips

    This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, as psychoanalysis, addresses our fears, turning our terror into…

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    Houdini’s Box: The Art of Escape

    Adam Phillips

    In this insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in society and in the self. By analyzing four examples of escape artists, Phillips enables…

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    Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

    Adam Phillips

    We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be…

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    Winnicott

    Adam Phillips

    DW Winnicott’s books, including The Piggle , Home Is Where We Start From and The Child , Family and the Outside World are still read, valued and argued with years…

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    Attention Seeking

    Adam Phillips

    Originally published in 2019 by Penguin Books, Great Britain –Title page verso.

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    On Getting Better

    Adam Phillips

    On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness –

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    Unforbidden Pleasures

    Adam Phillips

    Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar…

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    Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

    Adam Phillips

    From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis

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    Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

    Adam Phillips

    From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis

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    On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

    Adam Phillips

    In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis–kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates…

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    In Writing

    Adam Phillips

    Britain’s pre-eminent psychoanalyst explores the relationship between writing and psychoanalysis - a fascinating and highly unusual series of literary essays

    For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of…

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    On Kindness

    Adam Phillips,Barbara Taylor

    What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? This title presents an analysis of kindness in history, in life and…

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    On Balance

    Adam Phillips

    Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? This title explores…

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    Winnicott

    Adam Phillips

    D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over 40 years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and…

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    Bear Pirate Viking Queen Volume 1

    R.L. Stine, Stephanie Phillips, Sean Lewis, Adam Gorham

    A gorgeous, high fantasy story about the blood spilled to make countries.

    "A tale of the sea, of Pirates, Vikings, Queens and bears, we follow each as they war with…

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    The Book of Interruptions

    We are living in the Age of Interruption; modern technology is changing our forms of attention, everyday life is subject to more disruption than ever before. As the pattern of…

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    The Concise Dictionary of Dress

    Judith Clark,Adam Phillips

    Presents a deeply idiosyncratic collaboration between a psychoanalyst and a costume curator. In this book, the psychoanalyst re-describes dress in terms of anxiety, wish and desire, while the costume curator’s…

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    The Electrified Tightrope

    Michael Eigen

    This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It emphasizes positive contributions to growth of self made by seemingly pathological or…

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    The Electrified Tightrope

    Michael Eigen

    Discusses the capacity to experience in both the therapist and the patient and examines how this capacity can be sustained or sabotaged. The title refers to the tension due to…

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    Intimacies (16pt Large Print Edition)

    Leo Bersani,Adam Phillips

    Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point…

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    On Kindness

    Adam Phillips,Barbara Taylor

    A concise and essential book that examines the history of kindness and shows how we can restore it in these troubled times that so desperately need it.

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    The Book of Evidence & The Sea

    John Banville

    Takes us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for…

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    Intimacies

    Leo Bersani,Adam Phillips

    Features two intellectuals who engage in a dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. In this book, their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its…

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    Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis

    John Forrester

    This book offers a rich philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and rippling implications of psychoanalysis. Original, witty, incisive, these essays provide a new understanding of the…

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    The Silent Second: A Chuck Restic Mystery

    Adam Walker Phillips

    An HR manager in L.A. finds his purpose in life by moonlighting as a private detective.

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    The Perpetual Summer: A Chuck Restic Mystery

    Adam Walker Phillips

    Our favorite HR man-turned-detective is back, searching for the kidnapped granddaughter of a billionaire with a mysteriously murderous past.

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    The Big Con: A Chuck Restic Mystery

    Adam Walker Phillips

    HR manager/PI Chuck Restic must find a missing consultant wanted for murder to save his own corporate-and literal-neck.

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    God, Adam, and You

    Richard D. Phillips

    Noted pastor-scholars defend the historicity of Genesis 13 and unpack its profound implications for human nature, original sin, the gospel, Gods intent for human sexuality, redemption, and more.

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    Bedtime Stories: 21 Years Behind the Mike at RN’s Late Night Live

    Phillip Adams

    For 21 years Phillip Adams has hosted Late Night Live, one of Radio National’s flagship programs, expertly batting questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and gurus. In singular style…

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    Roland Barthes

    Roland Barthes

    Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre’s The Words. –Hayden…

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    John Clare in Context

    The marginalisation of John Clare’s poetry, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. This collection of essays will be a landmark in the…

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    John Clare in Context

    The marginalisation of John Clare’s poetry, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. This important collection of new critical essays will be a…

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    Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane

    This book presents Edward Little’s memoir of Phillip Tapsell with editing and annotation. Part 1 discusses Tapsell’s life as a Pakeha-Maori; Part 2 reproduces Little’s original manuscript; and Part 3…

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    A Biblical Chronology from Adam to Christ

    Don T Phillips (Texas A & M University)

    A result of over 5 years research and investigation, this book presents an unbroken Chronology of the World between when Adam and Eve were expunged from the Garden of Eden…

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    Can Squirrels Waterski?: Questions and Answers about Fantastic Feats

    Adam Phillips,Author William Potter

    Can rats learn to surf? How fat was the fattest cat? How many Lego bricks would it take to reach the Moon?

    Discover the answers to these questions more in…

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    Pocket Jokes

    Phillip Adams,Patrice Newell

    A page a day keeps the doctor away! In a world of war, woes and worries, this little volume is at least as good as valium. Read the pages aloud…

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    Time without Clocks: Text Classics

    Joan Lindsay

    A must-read memoir for fans of Australian literary and art history, written by Picnic at Hanging Rock author Joan Lindsay

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    Topics in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry. (MN-13), Volume 13: Notes From a Course of Phillip Griffiths

    Phillip A. Griffiths,John Frank Adams

    This volume offers a systematic treatment of certain basic parts of algebraic geometry, presented from the analytic and algebraic points of view. The notes focus on comparison theorems between the…

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    Topics in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry. (MN-13), Volume 13: Notes From a Course of Phillip Griffiths

    Phillip A. Griffiths,John Frank Adams

    This volume offers a systematic treatment of certain basic parts of algebraic geometry, presented from the analytic and algebraic points of view. The notes focus on comparison theorems between the…

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    Can Squirrels Waterski?: Questions and Answers About Fantastic Feats

    Adam Phillips,William Potter (Author)

    Clear, engaging text allows kids to learn facts in an accessible and entertaining way.

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    Science Fiction Double Feature: Phosphorus & Into The Eye

    Adam Bennett,Sam M Phillips

    SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE

    A pair of SciFi novellas from authors Adam Bennett and Sam M. Phillips, the founders of Zombie Pirate Publishing.

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    As a Warrior Monk of the…

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