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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
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
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 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
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,
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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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
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
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
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
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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