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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what...
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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

Iris Gottlieb · Chronicle Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread,...
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Dan Carlin · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will...
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

Siegel, Daniel J. · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What's the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors...
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Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America

James W. Cortada · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

How rumors, lies, and misrepresentations shaped American historyAfter the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America, and Asia engaged in the most intensive discussion in modern times about falsehoods pronounced by public...
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR) .Doctors have struggled for centuries...
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Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

Melnick, Jeffrey · Arcade
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family. "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone,...
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The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence

John J. Prendergast Ph.D. · Sounds True
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

An experiential guide for exploring the convergence of psychological healing and spiritual awakening that happens most clearly and powerfully in the depths of the heart"The Deep Heart is what I call a living book, that rare gem of a book that is alive with the presence of its author...
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Why Do I Feel Like an Imposter?: How to Understand and Cope with Imposter Syndrome

Dr. Sandi Mann
Format: Paperback

Many of us share a shameful little secret: deep down we feel like complete frauds and are convinced that our accomplishments are the result of luck rather than skill. This is a psychological phenomenon known as 'Imposter Syndrome'. This book examines the reasons why up to 70% of us are developing...
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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time

Gannett, Allen · Currency
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant...
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