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Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between
Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between

Jason Boog · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 305
Format: Paperback

A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children's book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.Every parent wants...
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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness

Joel Gold · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What if you woke up with the alarming suspicion that you were being watched?One day in 2003, a patient unlike any other that Dr. Joel Gold had seen before was admitted to his unit at Bellevue Hospital. This man claimed he was being filmed constantly and that his life was being broadcast...
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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

David Rieff · Yale University Press
Pages: 145
Format: Print book

The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this...
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

Maria Konnikova · Viking
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

"It's a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime." - Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White CityThink you can't...
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The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth
The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth

Stephen Singular · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two...
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The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights
The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights

Thomas Gilovich · Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you "wise": wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life.When faced with a challenge,...
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Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Adam Phillips · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical...
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Reboot Your Brain: A Natural Approach to Fight Memory Loss, Dementia,
Reboot Your Brain: A Natural Approach to Fight Memory Loss, Dementia,

Gary Null · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

As of 2013, there are 93 million people over the age of forty-seven living in America. They make up the largest group of aging people in our country’s history. Many of those individuals are overweight or obese, eat a poor diet, and experience a high-stress lifestyle, leading to a range...
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Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply with Others
Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply with Others

Paul Gilbert · New Harbinger Publications, Inc.,
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback

Are you ready to transform your mind and emotions? To cultivate compassion, stability, self-confidence, and well-being? If so, get ready to change the way you experience your life with this highly-anticipated approach using mindfulness and compassion. Therapists have long been aware of mindfulness...
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Make a Wish for Me: A Family's Recovery from Autism
Make a Wish for Me: A Family's Recovery from Autism

LeeAndra Chergey · She Writes Press
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

When LeeAndra Chergey is told that her son, Ryan, is no longer considered "normal," she and her family are forced into a new way of handling the outside world. Together, Chergey's family and a team of carefully chosen therapists put in years of hard work, and eventually teach...
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Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Steven Poole · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch - from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem....
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The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love, and Learn to Be Individuals
The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love, and Learn to Be Individuals

Joan A. Friedman · Rocky Pines Press
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback

The Same but Different offers insights on and solutions to the challenges that arise when young adult twins are expected to be independent, self-assured "singletons" after having been raised as twins.Written for twins, their families, and significant others, this book- Instructs...
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being...
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How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly

David Richo · Shambhala
Format:  Book : English : 1st ed

How to let love into our lives, and how to express that love to the world at large--the latest from a best-selling author.We were made to love and be loved. Loving ourselves and others is in our genetic code. It’s nothing other than the purpose of our lives—but knowing that...
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