"In his brilliant new book, Burton systematically shows that certainty is a mental state . . . that doesn't dependably reflect object truth." — ForbesYou recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001—you know these things, well, because you just do.In On Being Certain, neurologist Robert Burton challenges the...

In this scientific study, a neurologist presents a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it wor...

Em Sobre ter certeza, o neurologista Robert A. Burton desafia as noções de como pensamos sobre o que sabemos. Ele mostra que o sentimento de certeza que temos quando nós "sabemos" alguma coisa vem de fontes que estão além do nosso controle e conhecimento. De fato, em vez de uma evidência ou fato, a certeza é uma sensação mental. Como esse "sentimento de saber" parece uma confirmação de conhecimento, nós tendemos a pensar nisso como um produto da razão. Mas um número cada vez maior de prova...

Elizabeth Monroe moved from Chicago to a small town in Ohio to live with her grandda, Bingo. He owned the construction company updating Peter’s house. Elizabeth was helping out until she could take her medical boards to transfer her license to Ohio.Robert Archer was bored with being an attorney and wanted to try his hand at construction. He had an eye for detail and wanted to help his brother, Peter, out. Robert was focusing so hard on the tile job that when Elizabeth suddenly spok...

Journey through the subject of melancholia in this easily accessible volume, touching on topics from love and sex to religion and geography. A new volume to add to Hesperus's unique and bestselling 'On' series.

Embark on a Journey of Becoming More Like ChristM. Robert Mulholland Jr. defines spiritual formation as "the process of being formed in the image of Christ for the sake of others." Compact and solid, this definition encompasses the dynamics of a vital Christian life and counters our culture's tendency to make spirituality a trivial matter or reduce it to a private affair between "me and Jesus."In Invitation to a Journey, Mulholland offers valuable ...

'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianRobert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel J...

Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his pioneering 17th-century psychological work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, to this supreme passion. Edited to offer the modern reader easier access to this classic text, this abridged version preserves all the fantastic variety of the original, as Burton knits together stories and quotations drawn from millennia of Europ...

A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life.Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father of Railways. Together with his son Robert, he built the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line. They also developed much of Britain's early railway map. In George and Robert Stephenson, industrial historian Anthony Burton examines the lives o...

According to Wikipedia: "The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. Burton's book consists mostly of a collection of opinions of a multitude of writers, grouped under quaint and old-f...

L’opera di Robert Burton è una grande summa barocca, un ineguagliato affresco enciclopedico di ciò che è stato detto e scritto sulla malinconia, a cominciare dagli autori più antichi. Di The Anatomy of Melancholy è stata tradotta l’introduzione: sintesi programmatica che l’autore firma con lo pseudonimo di Democrito junior. Di Democrito Burton vuole conservare il riso, il disincanto, la superiorità della distanza, il disprezzo accusatorio per la generale follia del mondo. La malinconia, in...

First published in 1621 under the persona "Democritus Junior," The Anatomy of Melancholy is an encyclopedic inquiry into sadness that ranges across medicine, philosophy, theology, and poetry. Organized into learned partitions on causes, symptoms, and cures, it surveys humoral physiology, lovesickness, religious despair, and civic malaise, proposing regimens of diet, exercise, music, friendship, and physic. Burton's baroque, digressive prose, thick with classical citations and sly satire, e...