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Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
Gary Klein · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Insights—like Darwin’s understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick’s breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA—can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more... |
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American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
RYAN HAMPTON · All Points Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution?... |
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
A. C. Grayling · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's... |
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Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
Benjamin Kunkel · Verso
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
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After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin... |
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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Russell Brand · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors. Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow up to the New York Times bestseller... |
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Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction
Mackenzie Phillips · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery... |
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Ancestors: Who We Are and Where We Come From
David Hertzel · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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People involve their ancestors in every aspect of culture. Individuals and societies worldwide and throughout history have incorporated ancestors into rituals public and private, religious and secular. Societies often organize their aristocracies, tribes, and other kinship groups around... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution.
Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career... |
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The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Lissa Rankin · Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Not many people in the medical world are talking about how being afraid can make us sick - but the truth is that fear, left untreated, becomes a serious risk factor for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Now Lissa Rankin, M.D., explains why we need to heal ourselves from... |
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