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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

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...
 
 
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

Joan Koenig · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children's lives and minds with the transformative power of music. With a curriculum and philosophy drawn from cutting-edge science, L'Ecole Koenig has educated...
 
 
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Karl Deisseroth · Random House
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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,...
 
 
How Not to Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM · Flatiron Books
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

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,...