Showing results for "The Modern Mind" in Biographies & Memoirs

Returning home from a work trip, too jet-lagged to fall asleep, Chris Jones opened his wife’s laptop intending to get some writing done. Instead, he found a series of text messages that would burn his world to the ground. In the span of twenty minutes, he lost his wife and his best friend...

Ancient Crimes, Modern Minds is a true crime and history podcast exploring the darkest crimes of the ancient world through the lens of modern psychology.Long before profiling, forensics, and criminal psychology, there were killers, poisoners, conspirators, and tyrants whose motives are still painfully familiar. Ambition. Jealousy. Revenge. Fear. Power.Each episode dives into a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and acts of betrayal from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, China, and beyond. Then...

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and...

Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and his physician son explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing. Contemporary life provides us with infinite opportunities, along with endless temptations. We can...

The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were...