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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Susan Peirce Thompson · Hay House
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail... |
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Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
Theodore Dalrymple · Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover |
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In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 544
Format: Print book |
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The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character.... |
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Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan
Andrew McCarron · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book |
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Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical... |
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Charles Fernyhough · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
At the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?" Did you answer? And what does it mean if you did?
When someone says they hear... |
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover |
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As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest... |
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The Ex-Offender's Re-Entry Success Guide: Smart Choices for Making It on the Outside
Ronald L Krannich · Impact Publications
Pages: 135
Format: Print book |
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No question about it by almost any measure, America operates the world s largest, costliest, and most dysfunctional criminal justice ($250 billion) and incarceration ($80 billion) systems. With nearly 2. 2 million prisoners in state and federal institutions, another 12 million circulating... |
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
Mary Gaitskill · Pantheon Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads... |
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
Dan Ariely · Ted
Pages: 128
Format: Print book |
Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation - showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.
Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way,... |
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The Psychology Bible: The Definitive Guide to the Science of the Mind
Sandi Mann · Firefly Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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The Psychology Bible presents more than an introduction to the discipline. It is applicable to anyone and everyone and we are all curious about why we think and feel the way we do. The topics include: The history of psychology, the "science of the mind" Biographies... |
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Coping with Anxiety: Ten Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
Edmund Bourne · New Harbinger Pub, 2016.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book |
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Relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good! Fully revised and based in the latest research, this second edition of Coping with Anxiety includes the latest DSM updates and provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies to stop anxiety at its source.If you suffer from anxiety,... |
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
A thought-provoking examination of how we think and talk about beauty today - and the unexpected and often positive ways that beauty shapes our lives.
For decades, we've discussed our insecurities in the face of idealized, retouched, impossibly perfect images. We've worried primping... |
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Speeches that Defined the World
Alan J Whiticker · New Holland Publishers (UK)
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Speeches that Defined the World is a collection of the most potent and memorable speeches throughout history. These speeches highlight recurring themes such as politics and power, war and peace, civil rights and human rights. What they all have in common is the power to inspire - emotionally,... |
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