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Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires

Charlotte Fox Weber - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Tiny Beautiful Things, this inspiring and moving exploration of the twelve fundamental psychological needs we all share goes behind the closed doors of therapy to guide us in navigating our deepest longings.What do we want? And how do we get it?Chloe...
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Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods

Mariana Alessandri - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human. Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology,...
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Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication

Fred Dust
Format: Hardcover

A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained,...
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Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

Paul Bloom - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A Next Big Idea Club Must-ReadA compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain - a three-pound wrinkly mass - give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right...
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

Clancy Martin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution - from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, "I'm Still Here.""A...
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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

Nita A. Farahany - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where...
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How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible

David Hollander - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball - and the values rooted in the game - can solve today's most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University course. NBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and leading cultural figures have...
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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Adam Gopnik - ‎Liveright
Format: Hardcover

"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny." -- Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn -- and master -- a new skill? For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most...
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Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

Jeffrey A. Lieberman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Of the many myths and misconceptions that obscure our understanding of schizophrenia, the most pernicious is that there is no effective treatment or cure. Though that may have been true in the past, the current reality couldn't be more different: today's treatments have the potential...
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Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

Jenn Granneman - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

"This important book reframes the way we think about sensitivity - our own or someone else's - and shines a light on the great power in being highly attuned to the world." - Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet. A paradigm-shifting look...
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