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Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Eyal Press · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height...
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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M Hallowell · Touchstone
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback

Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children) , Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis...
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Finding Your Moral Compass: Transformative Principles to Guide You In Recovery and Life

Craig Nakken · Hazelden; 1 edition
Format: Book

In Finding Your Moral Compass, Craig Nakken, author of the best-selling book The Addictive Personality, gives readers in recovery the model and tools needed to make life decisions in the pursuit of good. He offers 41 universally accepted principles, paired as positive and negative counterparts...
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Memoir About Anxiety

SARAH WILSON · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age - anxiety - viewing this widespread condition not as a burdensome affliction but as a powerful spiritual teacher that can deepen our lives.While reading psychiatrist...
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High-Risk Pregnancy- Why Me? Understanding and Managing a Potential Preterm Pregnancy. A Medical and Emotional Guide.

Kelly Whitehead · Evolve Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

Facing a possible high-risk pregnancy? Struggling to keep your fear and anxiety under control? Overwhelmed by a long list of unknowns? Seeking medical answers and emotional reassurance? The road to parenthood is tough enough. Adding the fear of a possible premature baby can make it overwhelming:...
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The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age

EdD. Steiner-Adair Catherine · Harper
Format: Hardcover

Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your childs Facebook friend?As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online...
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Hijacked by Your Brain: How to Free Yourself When Stress Takes Over

Jon Wortmann · Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

What do you do when stress takes over your life, and nothing you do to feel better seems to work? When you... •Melt down over the smallest things •Get angry at the people you love •Choke under pressure •Feel tense and worried all the time •Procrastinate or give...
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Daniel Goleman · HarperCollins Canada
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.Combining cutting-edge research with practical...
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America the Philosophical

Carlin Romano · Knopf
Pages: 672
Format: Book

A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name....
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

M.E. Thomas · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

As ME Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths we are your neighbors co-workers and quite possibly the people closest to you lovers family friends Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling our glibness and charm alluring Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking...
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Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us

Will Storr · The Overlook Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

By the author of The Unpersuadables, this thrilling and ambitious book explores the mysterious power of the self and reveals the danger of our modern obsession with it.We live in the age of the individual. Every day, we're bombarded with depictions of the beautiful, successful, slim, socially...
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Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT

Sheela Raja · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback

If you've experienced a traumatic event, you may feel a wide range of emotions, such as anxiety, anger, fear, and depression. The truth is that there is no right or wrong way to react to trauma; but there are ways that you can heal from your experience, and uncover your own capacity...
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The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

David Malouf · Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-)“Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness?...
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