| International Standard Book Number |
9781631498732 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1631498738 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
153.42
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| Personal Name |
King, Tracy (Writer), author.
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| Title Statement |
Learning to think : a memoir of faith, superstition, and the courage to ask questions / Tracy King.
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| Edition Statement |
First American edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2024.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
319 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Set in 1980s Birmingham, England, a piercing memoir about the liberating power of a scientific view of the world" -- Publisher's description.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions, her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. Her mother's dysfunctional reliance on the church deepened following the tragedy, and King, suffering from undiagnosed anxiety, stopped attending school. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers, neighborhood boys she could not avoid, were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Clinging to hearsay and what little information she had from the police, King allowed her imagination to fill in the rest. Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop , a discovery that proved transformative. Sagan's sage caveat, "But I could be wrong," became King's guiding light, empowering her to confront her demons.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
King, Tracy (Writer)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memory.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, English Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Psychology) Religious aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Critical thinking Religious aspects.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identitâe (Psychologie) Aspect religieux.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works) aat
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. rvmgf
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