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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
Nancy Colier · Sounds True Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Have you ever caught yourself checking your smartphone while you're behind the wheel - even though you know it's dangerous? Does your text alert chime make you interrupt a conversation with a person sitting right in front of you? "The compulsion to constantly check our devices plays... |
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Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
Barry McDonagh · BMD Publishing Pages: 234 Format: Print book
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'EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE A BOOK COMES ALONG THAT COMPLETELY TRANSFORM THAT FIELD -THIS IS THAT BOOK FOR ANXIETY'There's a new and faster way for anxiety relief, but few have ever heard it. Most people are advised to either just "manage" their anxiety or medicate it away.If... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman · Blue Rider Press Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard · Penguin Books Pages: 268 Format: Book
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A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin ClassicsSince its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard's seminal... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN · Crown Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been... |
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder · Ecco Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Steven Sloman · Riverhead Books Pages: 296 Format: Hardcover
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"The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom." - Steven PinkerWe all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don't even know... |
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Four Things Women Want from a Man
A R Bernard · Howard Books Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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After decades of preaching, teaching, and counseling, influential Christian leader A.R. Bernard reveals the four qualities women want in a man - qualities that make for a satisfying and happy relationship.As a longtime pastor of a big-city church, A.R. Bernard has witnessed couples in every... |
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Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
George Saunders · Random House Inc Pages: 64 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million... |
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Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
David Armitage · Alfred A Knopf Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history,... |
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