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New Titles - Psychology & Philosophy
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Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Lisa Congdon · Chronicle Books
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
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An artist's unique voice is their calling card. It's what makes each of their works vital and particular. But developing such singular artistry requires effort and persistence. Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Epstein, David · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone... |
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
David Robson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening examination of the stupid things smart people do -- and how to cultivate skills to protect ourselves from error.Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligence trap,"... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick
Wood, Wendy · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive changeWe spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren't conscious choices but the result of our non-conscious... |
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Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst: Practical Compassion in Parenting
Payne, Kim John · Shambhala
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A practical, meditative approach that can be used in the moment to help you stay calm and balanced when your child's behavior is pushing you to your limit--by the popular author of Simplicity Parenting.When children are at their most difficult and challenging situations arise, how can we react... |
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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Duncan White · Custom House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could... |
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Three Women
Taddeo, Lisa · 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 I've... |
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Neiman, Susan · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing... |
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