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The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, The Philosophy Book explores the history and concepts of philosophy, and demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter.Are the ideas of René Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes still relevant today? The Philosophy Book unpacks the writings... |
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What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
Rachel Dempsey · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation’s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel... |
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The Miracle Mindset: Show Up. Step Up. You Are Stronger Than You Think.
J J Virgin · North Star Way
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Celebrity health expert and four-time New York Times bestselling author, JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event taught her to tap into an indomitable mindset, trust her instincts, and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son's life ... and her own. She'll share the lessons she learned... |
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The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
Michaela Chung · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Learn the tools to shed your mask of extroversion, develop your own magnetism, and reveal the true you.One third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates - even enforces - an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic,... |
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber · Basic Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler... |
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How Women Decide
Therese Huston · Mariner Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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"One could imagine it becoming required reading on Wall Street. "--New York Times Book Review So, you've earned a seat at the table. What happens next? We all face hard decisions every day and the choices we make, and how others perceive them, can be life-changing. There are countless... |
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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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 and preening... |
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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Gail Saltz · Flatiron Books
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities," revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths. In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling... |
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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Andrew Shtulman · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,... |
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
Mark C. Taylor · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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We live in an ever-accelerating world faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art,... |
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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. In his Pulitzer... |
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