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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 Roman Search for Wisdom
Michael K Kellogg · Prometheus Books, 2014.
Pages: 364
Format: Print book |
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The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authorsThough Rome conquered much of the world and established an empire that lasted more than a millennium, its citizens sometimes expressed a sense of inferiority to the intellectual... |
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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Joel Gold · Free Press, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 321
Format: Print book |
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A "clear, witty, and engaging" (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An "intellectual landmark" (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada) .The current view of delusions - the strange beliefs held by people... |
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A Mind of Your Own: What Women Can Do About Depression That Big Pharma Can't
Kelly M D Brogan · Harper Wave
Pages: 337
Format: Print book |
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Named one of the top health and wellness books for 2016 by MindBodyGreenDepression is not a disease. It is a symptom.Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book |
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Living with Bipolar Disorder: Strategies for Balance and Resilience
Lynn Hodges · Findhorn Press |
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From the initial diagnosis through recovery and transformation, this handbook offers positive, real-life solutions and support from one who not only suffers from the condition herself but has experienced it with her mother and her daughter. Her handy guide offers firsthand advice on how to lead... |
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How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Kevin Ashton · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover |
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As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest... |
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The Wounds Within: A Veteran, a PTSD Therapist, and a Nation Unprepared
Joshua S. Goldstein · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover |
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As America’s longest wars end, hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Wounds Within follows the iconic case of Marine Lance Corporal Jeff Lucey, who deployed early in the Iraq War, battled PTSD after returning... |
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