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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

Meghan Daum · Picador Usa
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to way to have it all - a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children - before their biological clock stopped...
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

Ronald Epstein · Scribner
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.As a third-year Harvard Medical...
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Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic
Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic

Mark Coleman · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Many of us are well acquainted with our "Inner Critic." This is the voice that says not enough, not good enough, or sometimes too much. It's the voice that makes every step we take subject to criticism. The Inner Critic is inner because it knows our history, our feelings, how we tick....
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100 Questions  &  Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds: Third Edition
100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds: Third Edition

Lynn E DeLisi · Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2016.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

When you or a loved one has been diagnosed as one of the millions of American living with Schizophrenia, you may be left with a number of questions. What is Schizophrenia? What are the current medications for it, and what are their side effects? Can it be passed down to children? 100 Questions...
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Living with Bipolar Disorder: Strategies for Balance and Resilience
Living with Bipolar Disorder: Strategies for Balance and Resilience

Lynn Hodges · Findhorn Press
Format: Paperback

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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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book

A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures...
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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World

Hyemin · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world"Is it the world that's busy, or is it my mind?"The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide - it has sold more...
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Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

Catrine Clay · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict...
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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

Nancy Colier · Sounds True
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Have you ever caught yourself checking your smartphone while you're behind the wheel - even though you know it's dangerous? Does your text alert chime make you interrupt a conversation with a person sitting right in front of you? "The compulsion to constantly check our devices plays...
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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness

Joel Gold · Free Press, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

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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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 362
Format: Print book

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween
Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy · Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014
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Pleasurable Weight Loss: The Secrets to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Loving Your Life Today
Pleasurable Weight Loss: The Secrets to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Loving Your Life Today

Jena la Flamme · Sounds True
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

"The key to losing weight is not about enjoying less," teaches Jena la Flamme, "it's about enjoying more." This revolutionary insight has allowed thousands of Jena's students to lose weight without boring food plans, arduous rules, or punishing exercise. Why does...
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