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Jerks at work : toxic coworkers and what to do about them

Tessa V West - ‎Portfolio
Pages: Hardcover‏‎272
Format: Hardcover‏

"For anyone pulling their hair out over an irritating colleague who's not technically breaking any rules, a hilarious guide to getting difficult people off your back from NYU psychology professor Tessa West. Ever watched a coworker charm the pants off management while...
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Galit Atlas - ‎Little, Brown Spark
Pages: Hardcover‏‎288
Format: Hardcover‏

The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create...
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Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts

Jed Perl - ‎Knopf
Pages: Hardcover‏‎176
Format: Hardcover‏

As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. "Art's relevance," he writes, "has everything to do with...
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Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

Lucy Foulkes - ‎St. Martin's Press
Pages: Hardcover‏‎272
Format: Hardcover‏

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health...
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How to be perfect : a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter anywhere on earth, forever

Michael Schur - ‎Simon & Schuster
Pages: Hardcover‏‎304
Format: Hardcover‏

"From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world"--
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Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy

Andrea Scher - ‎Harper Design
Pages: Paperback‏‎208
Format: Paperback‏

"The PERFECT guide to help us slow down and find the beauty and wonder right in front of us." - Brené BrownSpark your sense of wonder and lift your spirits with this collection of fun, creative activities and ideas to help cultivate daily joy, illustrated with full-color photographs,...
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The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse

Benjamin van Rooij - ‎Beacon Press
Pages: Hardcover‏‎312
Format: Hardcover‏

Why do some laws radically change behavior whereas others are consistently ignored and routinely broken? Why do we keep relying on harsh punishment against crime even though it continues to fail?Professors Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine present the first accessible analysis of behavioral...
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The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis

Michael A. Eisenberg - ‎Wicked Son
Format: Hardcover

"The Tree of Life and Prosperity is one of the most important business books out there right now for people looking to build, create, and do so with their heads and hearts." "Eisenberg has produced a book that will entertain, stimulate, and teach, whether the reader comes...
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Fixed.: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving

Amy E Herman - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

With Amy Herman's Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems.Demonstrating a powerful paradigm shift for finding solutions, Herman...
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Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life

Tracey Shors PhD - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women -- and how we can learn to heal ourselvesEveryone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echo and etch itself into our brain...
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