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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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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein · Riverhead Books Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Whole Hearts. Tough Conversations.
BREN BROWN · Random House Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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In her #1 New York Times bestsellers, Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 231 Format: Paperback
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"Drop the flashcards - grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call." - People Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes... |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she) . One day, Lori Gottlieb... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 544 Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen... |
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra · Harmony Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The Healing Self offers... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Random House Pages: 279 Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time... |
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I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
David Shields · Knopf Format: Hardcover
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"An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls) . David Shields always wanted... |
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The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney · Visible Ink Press Pages: 400 Format: Paperback
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Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies.... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich · Knopf Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices,... |
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson · Atria Books Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
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Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change, providing... |
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