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Happy Campers: 9 Summer Camp Secrets for Raising Kids Who Become Thriving Adults
Audrey Monke · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Audrey "Sunshine" Monke, mother of five and camp owner-director, shares nine powerful parenting techniques-inspired by the research-based practices of summer camp-to help kids thrive and families become closer. Research has proven that kids are happier and gain essential social... |
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Extraordinary ... A nonfiction literary masterpiece ... I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Beautifully written ... This is one of the most riveting, assured, and scorchingly original debuts... |
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live... |
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Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
Daniel G. Amen · Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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It all starts with your brain: how you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it’s out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice that bombards... |
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Status Anxiety
Alain De Botton · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted. . . . The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second... |
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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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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
Deborah Serani · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention... |
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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
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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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The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
Michael S. Malone · St. Martin's Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and the accomplishment of complex tasks. Human civilization... |
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Frank Warren · William Morrow; First edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation.... |
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
Ron Paul · Grand Central
Pages: 173
Format: Print book
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This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution... |
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner · Thomson Wadsworth
Pages: 1150
Format: Hardcover
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The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold... |
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
Lux Alptraum · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying--why myths about women's deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy.... |
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