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Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why by Darian Leader
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Category: Culture & Ideas
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient ser ...Show more
Hands What we do With them and Why by Darian Leader
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious ab ...Show more
Is It Ever Just Sex? by Darian Leader
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Category: Health & Diet
A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea that sexuality is a smouldering, animalistic force within us, desperate for release yet restrained by social forces, ...Show more
What Is Madness? by Darian Leader
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Category: Self Help
In What is Madness?, Darian Leader, the author of The New Black and Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post? asks probing questions about madness, sanity and everything in between. What separates the sane from the mad? How hard or easy is it to tell them apart? And what if the difference is reall ...Show more
Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader
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Category: Health & Diet
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more One in four adults sleeps badly. Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as hav ...Show more
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