Worry and obsession
People with anxiety problems worry. Sometimes their worry and obsessions are directed inwards, about possible physical or mental illness. When faced with a threat, we think: "Is this dangerous and where is safety?" This reaction is a normal [... more]
NineMSN Health |
Sumo Wrestlers in Japan
Sumo wrestling is a national obsession in Japan, and is followed by millions of fans on national television. It has the same profile as rugby league or AFL in Australia, and the master Sumo wrestlers, or Yokozuna, are revered as sporting ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Obsessions
All children worry, but some children can't stop worrying, no matter how much they want the worry to go away. About 2% of the adult population have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and it can start as early as about 7 years of age. People ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Rosemary Sullivan
Rosemary Sullivan is the bestselling author of Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession and The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out. Her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Shadow Maker, won the Governor General's Literary ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
David Plante
David Plante is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Francoeur trilogy-- An original and radiant novel about grief, obsession, and the need for meaning from the author of The Family, a finalist for the National Book Award. When ... [... more]
Random House |
Leonard Cohen
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with ... [... more]
Random House |
Ruth Brandon
For many performers, stage life and real life are separate identities. For master illusionist Harry Houdini, the two were inextricably linked. In this widely acclaimed biography, Ruth Brandon shows how Houdini's obsession with his own mortality ... [... more]
Random House |
Susan Duerden
A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy-the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth ... [... more]
Random House |
Irene Zutell
Charlotte "Lottie" Love has a thing for celebrity. Actually, it's more of an obsession. All her life she's lurked in the shadows of Hollywood, desperate to step into the light. When she lands a job at Personality magazine, her dreams of ... [... more]
Random House |
Patrick Benson
When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. Stunning... A tragic tale of obsession and revenge set against the unforgiving sea, Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK has now been expertly edited ... [... more]
Random House |
Andrea Wulf
The fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain the epicenter of horticulture and transformed gardening from an aristocratic pastime into a national obsession. In 1733, American John Bartram dispatched ... [... more]
Random House |
Three Pointless Obsessions
Most market participants, including institutions, brokers, advisors and private investors, obsess about 'the economy,' its growth and the statistics such as Gross Domestic Product devised to measure its size and growth. Most agree that ... [... more]
Leithner |
