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Capture: A Theory of the Mind
David A. M.D. Kessler · Harper Wave
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad... |
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
Andrew D. Kaufman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From a popular Tolstoy scholar an entertaining, thought-provoking, and accessible argument for why War and Peace is more relevant to readers now than ever.Nothing less than inspiring.--Jay Parini, author of The Last Station Mischievously compelling....An attaboy to Kaufman for reminding... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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A.D.H.D. Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
Alan Schwarz · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The groundbreaking and definitive account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - and how its unchecked growth over half a century has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society.More... |
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Idiot's Guides: Philosophy, Fourth Edition
Jay Stevenson Ph.D. · ALPHA; 4 edition
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A newly visual approach, this updated edition will include infographics, photos, and pull quotes to help reinforce learning of the subject of philosophy. Beginning with the pre-Socratics and Eastern philosophers, all of the major schools of thought are covered. Content includes religious... |
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer · Farrar
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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Success as an Introvert For Dummies
Joan Pastor · For Dummies
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
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Thrive as an introvert in an extrovert world Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and author J.K. Rowling have more in common than being highly successful. They're also introverts. Success as an Introvert For Dummies identifies common misunderstandings about introverts and highlights the strengths... |
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Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics
Richard Shenkman · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 302
Format: Print book
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Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics,... |
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The Little Spark - 30 Ways to Ignite Your Creativity
Carrie Bloomston · C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Format: Paperback
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You were born with a creative spark inside. Do you look at yourself now and wonder if the spark has gone out? Ignite that inner fire with the 30 engaging exercises, fun activities, inspirational images, and motivating ideas in this book. Learn what your Little Spark of creative passion... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
James Mcfarland · Fordham University Press
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a limit case manifesting the precariousness... |
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Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
Tommie Shelby · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan's report on the black family and the Kerner Commission's investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor -- such... |
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The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love and Learn to Be Individuals
Steven Jay Fogel · Rocky Pines Press
Format: Kindle Edition
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Do you sometimes resent your twin and then feel guilty about it? Are you frustrated that no one understands what it's like to be a twin? People think being a twin is mysterious, fun, and magical, but in reality, twin relationships can be difficult to navigate.The Same but Different offers... |
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The Silver Lining: A Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer
Hollye Jacobs RN MS MSW · Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs a healthy, happy thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family history of breast cancer, being diagnosed with the disease rocked Hollye Jacobs’s world. Having worked as a nurse, social worker, and child development specialist for fifteen years, she suddenly... |
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All Bets Are Off: Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction
Arnie Wexler · Central Recovery Press
Format: Book
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Arnie Wexler's life as a gambler began on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, flipping cards, shooting marbles, and playing pinball machines. At age fourteen he found the racetrack, a bookie, and started playing the stock market. His obsession with gambling accelerated until a fateful... |
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