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  • THE BOOK OF PHOBIAS AND MANIAS
    THE BOOK OF PHOBIAS AND MANIAS
    KATE SUMMERSCALE
    From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness".The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals). Phobias and manias are deeply pers...
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    Q. 210

  • ATLAS DE LAS FOBIAS Y LAS MANIAS
    ATLAS DE LAS FOBIAS Y LAS MANIAS
    SUMMERSCALE, KATE
    La brontofobia, o el miedo patológico a las tormentas, se considera un terror infantil, pero son muchos más los adultos afectados.La erotomanía, u obsesión amorosa es tanto la angustia incontrolable por el amor no correspondido como el autoengaño de sentirnos deseados por alguien.La gerascofobia, emparentada con el conocido como síndrome de Peter Pan, describe la aversión ante ...
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    Q. 290

  • THE WICKED BOY
    THE WICKED BOY
    SUMMERSCALE,KATE
    In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. Wh...
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    Q. 280

  • EL ASESINATO DE ROAD HILL
    EL ASESINATO DE ROAD HILL
    SUMMERSCALE,KATE
    Una noche de verano de 1860, en una elegante mansión de la campiña inglesa, todo está en calma. Tras los ventanales la familia Kentduerme tranquilamente. A medianoche se oye un ladrido. Luego, todo vuelve a quedar en silencio...Cuando a la mañana siguiente se despiertan, los Kent descubren con horror que el más pequeño de sus hijos ha desaparecido de su cuna. Un escalofrío reco...
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    Q. 130

  • THE BOOK OF PHOBIAS AND MANIAS
    THE BOOK OF PHOBIAS AND MANIAS
    KATE SUMMERSCALE
    Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the sight of a spider, or twitch with nomophobia when you misplace your mobile phone? Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves, yet they're bound up in the currents of the w...
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    Q. 190

  • THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER
    THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER
    KATE SUMMERSCALE
    A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listSaville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot.On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant W...
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    Q. 110