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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been... |
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Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
MICHAEL HARRIS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword from Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows.Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely... |
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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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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success  Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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Starved: A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full
Anne McTiernan · Central Recovery Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne's mother to bring her home, but she is still... |
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Unmasking Narcissism: A Guide to Understanding the Narcissist in Your Life
Mark Ettensohn PsyD · Althea Press
Pages: 186
Format: Print book
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Whether the narcissist in your life is a boss, coworker, relative, or romantic partner, the exercises and advice in Unmasking Narcissism will help you set healthy boundaries and make sense of this complex and often painful issue. In this groundbreaking guide from clinical psychologist... |
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Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity
Alan Iny · Random House
Format: Book
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When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters. LIGHTERS? With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls · Crown
Pages: 405
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories... |
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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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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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Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea
David Wilson · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927.... |
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Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Len Sperry · Greenwood
Pages: 1310
Format: Print book
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Serving as an indispensable resource for students and general-interest readers alike, this three-volume work provides a comprehensive view of mental health that covers both mental well-being and mental illness.* Provides exhaustive content that affords readers a holistic understanding... |
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