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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert · Storey Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined with... |
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The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Jamie James · Farrar
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In The Glamour of Strangeness, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them."... |
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Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Richard Shenkman · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics,... |
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Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Terry Alford · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's... |
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Overcoming OCD: A Journey to Recovery
Janet Singer · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel Singer hadn't eaten in a week. Hunched over with his head in his hands, he'd sit in his "safe" chair for hours, doing nothing but shaking, mumbling and moaning; he was in the throes of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dan went from seven therapists to ten medications... |
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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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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan · Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find... |
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
Ariel Leve · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences... |
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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It
Claudia Hammond · Harperperennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money - perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.We know we need money... |
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother... |
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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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Why Does My Cat Do That?: Answers to the 50 Questions Cat Lovers Ask
Catherine Davidson · Ivy
Pages: 128
Format: Book
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Why does your cat always head straight for visitors who cant stand feline company? Why does he chatter his teeth when he sees a bird and prefer pond water to fresh? This book will help you solve the riddles of your cats behaviour and put your own into context, too |
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