Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Jamison, Kay Redfield

Exuberance: The Passion for Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701481)

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Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Jamison, Kay Redfield

Exuberance: The Passion for Life

$16.95
Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Jamison, Kay Redfield

Exuberance: The Passion for Life

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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A national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states--one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself.

"[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art." --The Washington Post Book World

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.

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.

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
ISBN-10: 0375701486
ISBN-13: 9780375701481
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 109
New York Times 11/06/2005 pg. 36
By Kay Redfield Jamison
By Kay Redfield Jamison
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KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, and Touched with Fire. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.

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