04934cam a2200829 4500 468439519 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307889089 0307889084 B00B0LP3UU Amazon 185dfe5b-2e4e-4425-8e53-c76e4d6a8647 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 212680 212680 212680 1209156 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Morland, Polly. The Society of Timid Souls [Libby] : or, How To Be Brave. Crown, 2013. Education. Biography. spiritual. Friendship. literary fiction. anthropology. Business. society. happiness. Writing. philosophy. mental health. Journalism. human nature. Death. ethics. psychology. inspiration. self help. biographies. Self Improvement. History. Spirituality. Essays. personality types. Personality. Personal development. Sociology. social science. American Literature. history books. mental health books. philosophy books. psychology books. sociology books. personality books. personality psychology. psychology book. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2223kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:A journey into the modern life of an ancient virtue – bravery – and a quest to understand who might possess it and how With The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave, documentary filmmaker Polly Morland sets out to investigate bravery, a quality that she has always felt she lacked. The book takes inspiration from a vividly eccentric, and radical, self-help group for stage-frightened performers in 1940s Manhattan, which coincided with the terrifying height of World War II and was called The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years later, as anxiety about everything from terrorism to economic meltdown continues, Morland argues that courage has become a virtue in crisis. We are, she says, all Timid Souls now. Despite a career in which she has filmed in rebel-held Colombian jungles and at the edge of Balkan mass graves, interviewing convicted murderers, drug-traffickers, and terrorists, Morland herself has never felt brave. Often, the very reverse. So she sets out to discover how and why courage is achieved in an age of anxiety and whether it might even be learned. Drawing on her interviews and encounters with soldiers and civilians, bullfighters and big-wave surfers, dissidents fighting for freedom and cancer patients fighting for their lives, Morland examines bravery across the spectrum: from the first childhood act of defiance by Bernard Lafayette, a leader of the civil rights movement who later faced down the KKK in Alabama, or the reflexive will-to-survive of Vjollca Berisha, a Kosovo Albanian who endured a massacre by playing dead among the bodies of her own family, to the small acts of everyday bravery that quietly punctuate our lives, in schoolyards, labor wards, and hospices the world over. Along the way, Morland draws attention to some of the myths of bravery that have been conjured and perpetuated over time and argues that, often, courage exists as much in the telling as in the doing. At once an exploration of what bravery means and a chronicle of the author's personal journey among those who embody it, The Society of Timid Souls is a profound, approachable meditation on this most valued and mysterious of human qualities. In setting off on the trail of the lionhearted, Polly Morland finds out a great deal about what makes some of us extraordinary, and what of the extraordinary we all share.. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/society-of-timid-185dfe?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/society-of-timid-185dfe?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/society-of-timid-185dfe?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)