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On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits

Wray Herbert · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate...
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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time

ALLEN GANNETT · Currency
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant...
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer · New Harbinger Publications/ Noetic Books
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul—now a #1 New York Times bestseller—offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. Whether this is your...
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Exploring visual design : the elements and principles

Joseph A Gatto · Davis Publications
Pages: 258

Discusses the elements and principles of design as reflected in various art forms and in daily life.
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Overcoming the Fear of Fear: How to Reduce Anxiety Sensitivity

Steven Taylor · New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Anxiety isn't all in your head. When you feel nervous, symptoms such as chills, sweating, heart palpitations, and shaking can affect your whole body. If you worry that others notice these anxiety symptoms or fear that they could be harmful to your health, you may have anxiety sensitivity....
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Aristotle for Everybody or Difficult Thought Made Easy

Mortimer Jerome Adler · Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Adler's overall thesis is that in contrast to Aristotle's teacher Plato, whose ideas may be considered more abstract and esoteric, Aristotle was a "common sense" philosopher whose depth and uniqueness of thought made his common sense "uncommon." While Dr. Adler...
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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

Bernard E Harcourt · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

Daniel G. Amen · Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

BRAIN PRESCRIPTIONS THAT REALLY WORKIn this breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're born...
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The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance

Polly Young-Eisendrath · Little, Brown
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Kids today are depressed and anxious. They also seem to feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eisendrath makes clear in this brilliant account of where a generation has gone astray, parents trying to make their children feel special...
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

Po Bronson · Twelve
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then...
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food

Judy Collins · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life....
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