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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means... |
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The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
GAYLE BRANDEIS · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicideGayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility... |
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Ann Hulbert · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book... |
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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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Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
STEVE CASNER · Riverhead Books
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions." - Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of HabitA safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what... |
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Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG · Oxford University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced... |
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain through nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathize, and understand the world around us, but how would... |
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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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Welcome to the Jungle, Revised Edition: Facing Bipolar Without Freaking Out
HILARY SMITH · CONARI PR
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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"I wrote Welcome to the Jungle because it's the book I should have been given when I was diagnosed." Bipolar disorder is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twentysomethings, yet there are few books out there written specifically for this... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another.... |
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