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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Nick Reding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland a timely, moving, very human account of one community s attempt to battle its way to a brighter future. Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere... |
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Leaving the OCD Circus: Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing
Kirsten Pagacz · Conari Press
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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"It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist on their first session when she was well into her 30s -- she'd been following orders from this mean taskmaster... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Eugene Soltes · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes took a remarkable journey deep into the minds of these white-collar... |
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
MANOUSH ZOMORODI · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you're not checking Facebook or Instagram? Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness boredom's... |
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone · The Experiment
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering... |
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Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do
Kathleen Trainor · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book
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Ten million children in the United States -- two million of them preschoolers -- suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks... |
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Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic consumer health information about healthy brain functioning and mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotic and personality disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders, and more ; along with information about medications and treatments, mental health concerns in specific groups, such as children, adolescents, older adults, minority populations, and people in poverty, a glossary of related terms, and directories of resources for additiona
Omnigraphics Inc. · Omnigraphics
Pages: 640
Format: Print book : English : Sixth editionView all editions and formats
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"Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of various mental illnesses, and the special mental health concerns of children and adolescents, older adults, the LGBT community, and immigrant populations. Along with tips for maintaining mental... |
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
John A Bargh · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When "it could never happen to me" does happen to you? These are the questions facing Jen Waite when she begins to realize that her loving husband - the father of her infant daughter,... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON · Harvard University Press
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct... |
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