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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781944869397 (pbk.) : |
| Terms of availability |
$18.95 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
IIMU |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
158.1 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cederström, Carl, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1980- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Desperately seeking self-improvement : |
| Remainder of title |
a year inside the optimization movement / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Carl Cederström and André Spicer. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
OR Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2017. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
358 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price type code |
USD |
| Price amount |
$18.95 |
| Currency code |
$ |
| Unit of pricing |
1 USD = 75.00 INR |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"For an extraordinary year, authors Carl Cederström and André Spicer threw themselves headlong into the multifarious and often bizarre world of self-optimization, a burgeoning movement that seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by merely being human. As willing guinea pigs in an extraordinary (and sometimes downright dangerous) range of techniques and technologies, our heroic protagonists used apps that deliver electric shocks in pursuit of improved concentration, wore headbands designed to optimize meditation, attempted to boost their memory through associative techniques (and failed to be admitted to MENSA), trained for weightlifting competitions, wrote a Scandinavian detective story under the influence of mind enhancing drugs, enrolled in motivational seminars and tantra sex workshops, attended new-age retreats and man-camps, underwent plastic surgery, and experimented with vibrators that stimulated parts of the body they barely knew existed. Somewhat surprisingly, the two young professors survived this year of rigorous research and have drawn on it to produce a hilarious and eye-opening book. Written in the form of two parallel diaries, Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement provides a biting analysis of the narcissism and individual competitiveness that increasingly pervades a society in which, as social solutions recede, individual self-improvement is the only option left."--Back cover. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Self-actualization (Psychology). |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Self-help techniques. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Self. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Spicer, André. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Monograph |
