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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Memoir About Anxiety
SARAH WILSON · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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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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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Sydney Finkelstein · Portfolio/Penguin
Pages: 261
Format: Print book
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A GOOD BOSS HITS HIS GOALS AND LEADS HIS TEAM.A SUPERBOSS BLOWS AWAY HER GOALS BY BUILDING AN ARMY OF NEW LEADERS.WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE? What do football coach Bill Walsh, restaurateur Alice Waters, television executive Lorne Michaels, technolÂogy CEO Larry Ellison, and fashion pioneer... |
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Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life
Pam Withers · Viva Editions
Format: Paperback
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Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys who are most aware that their bright eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade after which they become disengaged discouraged and disaffected There are dozens... |
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Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,... |
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
MANOUSH ZOMORODI · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you're not checking Facebook or Instagram? Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness boredom's... |
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Nick Reding · Bloomsbury
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland a timely, moving, very human account of one community s attempt to battle its way to a brighter future. Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere... |
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Touchpoints Three to Six: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
T. Berry Brazelton · Da Capo Press; 1 edition
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
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For decades, new parents have relied on Dr. Brazelton's wisdom in such beloved best sellers as Infants and Mothers and Touchpoints. But all "Brazelton babies" grow up. Now at last, the internationally famous pediatrician, in collaboration with an eminent child psychiatrist,... |
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A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
Jane Juska · Villard; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might be called “easy.” It’s a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then that’s... |
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To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism
ROB RIEMAN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a book for people who want the West to regain its moral high ground, and who want to think hard about how to help achieve that." -- Anne ApplebaumAn international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about... |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
American Psychiatric Association · American Psychiatric Publishing; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This new edition of the American Psychiatric Association s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
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