6 books in Biography & Autobiography - Social Scientists & Psychologists
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $13.95
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas. By observing them and, later, working with them, Prince-Hughes was finally able to... Read more >
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $13.95
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas. By observing them and, later, working with them, Prince-Hughes was finally able to... Read more >
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Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline... Read more >
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline... Read more >
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.”
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces... Read more >
My Journey Through Autism
Written by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.95
“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.”
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Marx for Beginners
Written by Rius
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a... Read more >
Written by Rius
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a... Read more >
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Driving Mr. Albert
A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Written by Michael Paterniti
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2001
Price: $10.95
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then... Read more >
A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Written by Michael Paterniti
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2001
Price: $10.95
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then... Read more >
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Out of Place
A Memoir
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $16.00
From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $16.00
From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this... Read more >
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