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Books like Between the Acts
Loved Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from psychology, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Man's Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist's survival of the camps and the meaning he drew from it; brief, profound and enduring.
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Flow
The psychologist who coined the concept of 'flow' — the state of complete immersion in a challenging activity — presents his research on optimal experience and argues that happiness comes not from leisure but from deep engagement with work and activity that stretches our abilities.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
How the mind's two systems lead us into predictable errors; the definitive popular book on cognitive bias.
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The Body Keeps the Score
How trauma lives in the body and how people heal; a landmark that reached far beyond therapists.
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Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins
The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a w
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Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill's quintessential volume _Think and grow rich_, the all-time bestseller in the field of professional success, outlines the laws of success and sets the standard of today's motivational th
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Murder in the Cathedral
A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a ch
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The mis-education of the Negro
Raises questions that readers were trying to answer in 1933 and are still trying to answer today. Explores the impact of slavery on the Black psyche and raises questions about our educational system,
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Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur
First published in 1951 as Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur, Arnold Hauser's comprehensive work explores the interaction between art and society. Through the detailing of social and historical
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Confession of Zeno
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo's charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conduct