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  • On Being Certain

    Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

    by Robert A. Burton ...
    "In his brilliant new book, Burton systematically shows that certainty is a mental state . . . that doesn't dependably reflect object truth." — ForbesYou recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001—you know these things, well, because you just do.In On Being ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Lucid Dreaming: How to Live Your Wildest Fantasies, Overcome Your Fears and Get Creative (Guided Mindfulness and Visualization Practices to Trigger Lucidity in Your Sleep)

    by Robert Burton ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Mason G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A dream journal could even be kept on a recording device such as a voice recorder or voice recording app on your phone. Whenever you wake up from a dream, write down every detail that you can remember. No detail is too small for this. Even things that seem completely insignificant should be recorded. This helps with the practice of remembering your ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language.Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states — their causes, symptoms, and cures — the Anatomy is much more: a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources. For ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind

    What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

    by Robert A. Burton ...
    In this scientific study, a neurologist presents a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...

    Unabridged

    56 hours 49 min

    The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most remarkable books ever written. First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. Its subtitle explains much: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With All the Kinds, Causes, ... Read more

    $46.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    This edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy is based on a nineteenth-century edition that modernized Burton's spelling and typographic conventions. In preparing this electronic version, it became evident that the editor had made a variety of mistakes in this modernization: some words were left in their original spelling (unusual words were a particular problem), portions of book titles were mistaken ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. Burton's book ... Read more

    $1.56 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy - The Original Classic Edition

    by Burton Robert ...
    Absolutely the Best Book Ever Written...Bar NoneFirst of all, one has a very difficult problem in defining exactly what this compendium is. Is it a book, a poem, a history, an epic? Well, it is all of those and many more. The Anatomy of Melancholy is, without a doubt, the best book ever written, bar none.It was compliled from all the books of the 17th century and is not really about melancholy, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. Burton's book ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy (Volume I of III)

    by Robert Burton ...
    A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Some Anatomies of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD