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New Titles - Psychology & Philosophy
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
Erving Goffman · Anchor Books / Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave... |
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Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Karl Deisseroth · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain's workings. In Projections, he combines... |
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You
Rebecca Schwarzlose · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain's surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began discovering these maps over a century ago, we are only now beginning to unlock their... |
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi Loeb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard's top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit,... |
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How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM · Flatiron Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad -- and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It's time for a different approach.Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician,... |
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