Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does “free will” really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?
In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Jesse […]
This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples including film, popular tabloids, campus culture, mass media marketing campaigns, facebook profiles, and art exhibits to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic.
The book also contains thought-provoking artwork by Nicola Bockelmann which focuses on the permeable border between pornography and mainstream culture and urges viewers […]
Could the web now be changing the very nature of the relationship between the sexes?
Dr Catherine Hakim is a pioneering British social scientist and author.
Currently, she is Professorial Research Fellow at Civitas, the London think tank.
From Amazon:
Gathering together the candid confessions of people who have played away using websites dedicated to married affairs, the ground-breaking […]
“This extraordinary, wildly entertaining book sheds new light on the Age of Disruption. By debunking myths of success stories, challenging long-held beliefs of process, and finding commonality among those who are agents of profound change, Adam Grant gives us a powerful new perspective on not just our place in the world, but our potential […]
Mental preparedness for creating – or, more accurately, living effectively.
The Art of War has been applied to many fields well outside of the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one’s opponent so that physical battle […]
Alone Together – Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
From the interview (below): Her feelings about technology were once evangelical, but have been transformed by her own research.
Her book The Second Self (published in 1984) was a hopeful look at personal computers; the next, Life on the Screen, put her on […]
“When the soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Symbols-Carl-Gustav-Jung/dp/0440351839
I wonder why I am revisiting this work after watching Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ?
Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1891 – January 26, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American patron of the arts, publisher, and the “literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris.”
She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press […]
Tabloid newspapers take a prurient interest in women who flaunt their curves. The role of the media, and other cultural forces, in constructing notions of female beauty is often discussed. But “Curvology”, a new book by David Bainbridge, focuses on the part played by evolution in men’s—and women’s—understanding and appreciation of the undulations of the […]
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