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Own It.: Make Your Anxiety Work for You

Caroline Foran · The Experiment
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

#1 International BestsellerAnxiety transforms from a crutch into an ally with this empowering self-help guide to mastering fear Caroline Foran is not here to "cure" your anxiety. When crippling panic attacks upended her job, her health, and her life, she tried everything - from...
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Who's Afraid of AI?: Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines

Thomas Ramge · The Experiment
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

A penetrating guide to artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, and the ways it will define our lives - for better and worse Computer programs can recognize human faces more reliably than humans. They beat us at board games, they bluff better than the best poker players in the world,...
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The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World

Kate Leaver · The Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, fresh, and thought-provoking exploration of friendship -- what it is, how to keep it, and why we need it more than ever beforeOur best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge....
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Help Me!

Marianne Power · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised....
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Foundations of Information Ethics

John T. F. Burgess · Neal-Schuman Publishers
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

As discussions about the roles played by information in economic, political, and social arenas continue to evolve, the need for an intellectual primer on information ethics that also functions as a solid working casebook for LIS students and professionals has never been more urgent. This...
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A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control

Kartik Hosanagar · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact usThrough the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms...
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The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being

Kate Pickett · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skinWhy are people more relaxed and at ease with each other in some countries than others? Why do we worry so much about what others think of us and often feel social life is a stressful performance? Why is mental...
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Anne Harrington · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder...
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