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Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific... Read More
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Nothing Was the Same
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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An Unquiet Mind
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $14.95
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid... Read more >
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Night Falls Fast
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $14.95
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of... Read more >
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Exuberance
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.95
With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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An Unquiet Mind
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1995
Price: $27.95
From a leading international authority on manic-depressive illness--and one of only a handful of women who are full professors of medicine--comes a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since childhood with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1995
Price: $27.95
From a leading international authority on manic-depressive illness--and one of only a handful of women who are full professors of medicine--comes a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since childhood with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Exuberance
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $25.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $25.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Nothing Was the Same
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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An Unquiet Mind
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Unquiet Mind
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $7.50
Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $7.50
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Exuberance
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $14.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $14.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
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Exuberance
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $15.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $15.95
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.
John Muir’s lifelong passion to save America’s wild places, Wilson Bentley’s legendary obsession to record for posterity the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Exuberance
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 7, 2004
Price: $20.00
We have learned much about depression, but what about its opposite? Why hasn't the human emotion that lifts us, inspires us, drives us on, and makes life worth living been discussed-and celebrated? In this outstanding book, bestselling author Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison explores exuberance in all its unrestrained, joyful energy, and... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 7, 2004
Price: $20.00
We have learned much about depression, but what about its opposite? Why hasn't the human emotion that lifts us, inspires us, drives us on, and makes life worth living been discussed-and celebrated? In this outstanding book, bestselling author Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison explores exuberance in all its unrestrained, joyful energy, and... Read more >
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