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Hardcover The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession Book
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ISBN: 0593489756

ISBN13: 9780593489758

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession

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From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of "everyday madness"

The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).

Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and perhaps the most common...

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