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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Eyal, Nir · BenBella Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes...
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Scatterbrain: How the Mind's Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful

Beck, Henning · Greystone Books - Greystone Books - Greystone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this mind-bending book, an esteemed neuroscientist explains why perfectionism is pointless - and argues that mistakes, missteps, and flaws are the keys to success.Remember that time you screwed up simple math or forgot the name of your favorite song? What if someone told you that such...
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Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left

Burgis, Ben · Zero Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a serious mistake. Unlike the neoliberal technocrats, who can point to social problems and tell people "trust us", the serious Left must...
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Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

Wood, Wendy · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive changeWe spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren't conscious choices but the result of our non-conscious...
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Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Darcey Steinke · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant...
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Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today's Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More

Zaloom, Shafia · Sourcebooks
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The only book you need to start a conversation with your kids about sexual harassment, consent, #metoo, and moreMany American teens are steeped in a culture that sends unsettling messages about sex, through everything from politics to music to the normalization of porn. In today's environment,...
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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

Marc Brackett · Celadon Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University's Child Study...
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The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

Zaki, Jamil · Crown
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, and shows how we can expand our circle of care, even in these divisive times Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren't like us, but find it easy to hate...
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9 Months In, 9 Months Out: A Scientist's Tale of Pregnancy and Parenthood

Lobue, Vanessa · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Expertise can explain the science of what's happening to a fetus or a baby throughout development, but all the science in the world can't tell you what it feels like to have a baby: the pang of morning sickness, the pain of labor, the excitement of birth, and the joy that comes...
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Moffett, Mark W. · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists...
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