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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

    $12.99 USD

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    Forgotten Authors, The - Men - The Complete Edition

    Don't let great literature die

    by Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Georges Eekhourd, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, Stefan Grabinski, William Dean Howells, Thomas Mann, John Willaim Polidori ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry, Robert Maskell ...

    Unabridged

    65 hours 15 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • 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

    $27.59 USD

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  • On Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Series series On
    Journey through the subject of melancholia in an easily accessible volume touching on topics from love and sex to religion and geographyBurton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the great but unclassifiable prose works in English literature: diverting, delightfully rambling, and filled with recondite learning and peculiar facts and speculations. Burton, frustrated at the stagnant, disorderly ... Read more

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  • The Essential 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    $1.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Although presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Robert Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Anatomy of Melancholy, What is it ?

    by Robert Burton ...
    On its surface, the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning, in the scholasticmanner, to the subject of melancholia (which includes what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text,The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far ... Read more

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  • 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

    $6.09 USD

  • The Anatomy of Melancholy

    Enriched edition.

    by Robert Burton, Gabriel Fox ...
    Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy," first published in 1621, is a pioneering exploration of the human psyche, presenting a profound inquiry into the nature of melancholy, or what we might now call depression. Written in an encyclopedic and digressive style, the work interweaves classical philosophy, medical knowledge, and literary references to dissect the melancholic condition and its ... Read more

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