U-Turn What If You Woke up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?

Name: U-Turn What If You Woke up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?
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ISBN: 9781582345871

ISBN-10: 1582345872

ISBN-13: 9781582345871

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Authors: Bruce Grierson

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“Read this book for the tales it tells, for the inspiration it imparts, or for the knowledge it so generously gives.”—Lauren Slater, author ofWelcome to My Country In this impressively researched and incisive book, Bruce Grierson draws on over three hundred stories of so-called “U-turners,” who have risked their livelihoods to answer a sudden wake-up call. We meet people who change political parties and careers, doctors who quit to become poets, men who become women, people who suddenly become revolutionaries for a cause they didn’t care about the day before. In chapters that address everything from the neuroscience behind epiphanies to the possibility of “forcing” a U-turn, Grierson…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682



Introduction



The Burning Spear



The Time of Reckoning



The Likely Candidate



The Condemned Twin



The Revolutionary Evolution



The Crying Baby



The Change of Heart



The Kandinsky Decision



The Road to Damascus



The Good Hypocrite



The Thought Experiment



The Parole Board's Dilemma



The Earth As Seen from Space


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index