When Friedrich Nietzsche made angel food cake, did the angel survive the encounter? When Sigmund Freud handled raw fish, where did his thoughts take him? Exactly what did Dorothy Parker mean by the term &ldquo;Parker House Rolls?&rdquo; And how did Ernest Hemingway handle his favorite bullfight souvenirs? A literary humor book for those who enjoy smashing idols fondly, NIETZSCHE&rsquo;S ANGEL FOOD CAKE . . . and Other &ldquo;Recipes&rdquo; for the Intellectually Famished allows twenty-two cultural monoliths to share their transcendently succulent recipes. Humankind will be the wiser for it.\nFor those who like cookery to insinuate the hard questions, NIETZSCHE&rsquo;S ANGEL FOOD CAKE offers a funny, surprisingly informative, and entirely whirlwind tour of civilization. Not really a cookbook, it&rsquo;s for lovers of literature, history, art, music, and philosophy, for foodies, and for anyone with a good liberal arts education, no matter how vaguely they remember it.

Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished

Humor & Entertainment

Coffey, Rebecca

Humor

Beck & Branch Publishers

In twelve lively essays by award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey, SCIENCE &amp; LUST answers questions you never thought to ask. How did kissing and romantic love evolve in humans? What do rats in polyester pants have to do with human sexuality? Are the wives of tall men really happier? Why do women prefer men in (or near) red? What are the telltale signs of the female narcissist? What are some science tips for building sex appeal? Are extramarital affairs really dangerous to a man’s health? And is it true that women can’t always tell when they’re sexually aroused? Coffey’s journalism has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Oakland Tribune, on WNYC’s “The Takeaway,” Fox News’s “Happening Now,” KPCC’s “Air Talk with Larry Mantle,” WAMC’s “51 Percent,” IRN USA Radio’s “Daybreak USA,” Vermont Public Radio, Northeast Public Radio, WBUR Boston, and in Scientific American and Discover magazines. Coffey’s column, “The Bejeesus out of Me” is a regular feature on PsychologyToday.com. SCIENCE &amp; LUST is Volume I of the BRAINY SEX series. More information is at www.BrainySex.com.In twelve lively essays by award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey, SCIENCE &amp; LUST answers questions you never thought to ask. Science and Lust is Volume 1 of the BRAINY SEX series. More information is at www.BrainySex.com.

Science and Lust (Brainy Sex)

Beck and Branch

With the electrifying tales of 15 survivors of catastrophic human cruelty at its narrative core, Unspeakable Truths & Happy Endings resoundingly illuminates both the necessity and difficulty of compassionate, sensible listening to survivors' tales of trauma.The book journalistically explores the affects of survivors's stories on compassionate listeners -- a group that includes therapists but that also includes friends, family, and even survivors themselves as they work and re-work the realities of their own experience. Along the way, the book addresses the flip side of compassionate listening; squabbles about victimhood and recovered memory. The book concludes that, as thinking and caring inhabitants of a menacing world, we must all learn to hear unspeakable truths. At the same time that we risk accepting the truths about violence and degradation that survivors' memories hold, we must reasonably engage critical thinking when memories of violence and degradation stretch the limits of our credulity. We owe it to survivors to listen compassionately; we owe it to ourselves to listen prudently.

Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Sidran Pr

With the electrifying tales of 15 survivors of catastrophic human cruelty at its narrative core, Unspeakable Truths &amp; Happy Endings resoundingly illuminates both the necessity and difficulty of compassionate, sensible listening to survivors' tales of trauma.The book journalistically explores the affects of survivors's stories on compassionate listeners -- a group that includes therapists but that also includes friends, family, and even survivors themselves as they work and re-work the realities of their own experience. Along the way, the book addresses the flip side of compassionate listening; squabbles about victimhood and recovered memory. The book concludes that, as thinking and caring inhabitants of a menacing world, we must all learn to hear unspeakable truths. At the same time that we risk accepting the truths about violence and degradation that survivors' memories hold, we must reasonably engage critical thinking when memories of violence and degradation stretch the limits of our credulity. We owe it to survivors to listen compassionately; we owe it to ourselves to listen prudently.

Young Anna Freud is sexually attracted to other girls. Unfortunately, in the early 20th century, lesbianism is still widely considered to be a symptom of “hysteria,” a psychological disorder marked by paralysis and other extreme symptoms. Anna’s father, Sigmund Freud, has long believed that fathers are at fault for any daughter’s lesbianism. But he also takes pride in being the world’s leading expert on hysteria, so he can’t ignore what he believes to be the screamingly crazy roots of Anna’s “disorder.” Unfortunately for Anna (and women everywhere), Sigmund believes that any and all hysteria is caused when a woman’s innate and unconscious desire to be sexually violated goes unmet. Worried about her lack of male suitors, Sigmund psychoanalyzes Anna to ready her for a womanly life. In analysis, Anna tries hard to accept her father’s ideas. But when she meets Dorothy Burlingham, heir to the Tiffany fortune, she can’t help but fall in love. The novel HYSTERICAL is Anna’s fact-based, full-life story of father-daughter conflict, sexual coming of age, and life with Dorothy. Author Rebecca Coffey is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and radio commentator. Also a humorist, she is the author of Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake: And Other “Recipes” for the Intellectually Famished (Beck &amp; Branch, 2013) and Science and Lust(Beck &amp; Branch, 2018).

Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story

Literature & Fiction

United States

She Writes Press

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Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished

Science and Lust (Brainy Sex)

Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy

Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy

Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story