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Exuberance (Paperback)
$15.15 - Save $0.80 (5%) - RRP $15.95 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for ExuberanceThe author of the bestselling "An Unquiet Mind"--an internationally renowned authority on mood disorders--now gives readers something wonderfully different: an exploration of exuberance and how it fuels our most important creative and scientific achievements.
Full description- Publisher: Random House USA Inc
- Published: 18 November 2005
- Format: Paperback 405 pages
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- Categories: Psychology | Psychology: Emotions | Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-esteem
- ISBN 13: 9780375701481 ISBN 10: 0375701486
- Sales rank: 78,221
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Full description for Exuberance
With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind's pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This "abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion" manifests itself everywhere from child's play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz's Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul.
