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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive. Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years,... |
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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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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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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Sharon Begley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior - using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion.Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something... |
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The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Warren Farrell · BenBella Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis... |
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Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness
Marjorie L. Baldwin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged... |
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The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper
Ian Robertson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upsets--like failing an unimportant exam or tackling a difficult project at work--with distress, while others power through life-changing tragedies showing barely any emotional upset whatsoever? How do some people shine brilliantly... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Bray Pipher · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts... |
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Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan
Andrew McCarron · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific intellectual and sociopolitical... |
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Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Lisa Damour · Ballantine Books
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School's Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter's erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural. Untangled... |
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Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
Craig Lambert · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound... |
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