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Exuberance: The Passion for Life

By Kay Redfield Jamison

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
2005
ISBN
037540144X, 9780375401442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7465478 bytes)
Pages
405\420
Orientation
no
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-03-15 04:32:45

Description

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.

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