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A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging: 15 Keys to a Lasting Relationship

Yogev, Sara · Familius
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement and Aging is the most comprehensive book devoted entirely to individual and couples relationship issues in the later stage of life. Not a treatise on money management, this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of aging and how to make...
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Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How to Make Connections Others Don't

Dorte Nielsen · BIS Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative?Over the years, there's a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools and gives you a practical...
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Susan Neiman · HighBridge Audio
Format: Hardcover

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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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly) , "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic) , and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering...
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Autism and Girls: World-Renowned Experts Join Those with Autism Syndrome to Resolve Issues That Girls and Women Face Every Day! New Updated and Revised Edition

Tony Attwood
Format: Paperback

Autism and Girls is a revised and updated edition of the bestselling book, Asperger's and Girls. This groundbreaking book describes the unique challenges of women and girls with autism spectrum disorder. In it, you'll read candid stories written by the indomitable women who have...
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The Turn-On: How the Powerful Make Us Like Them-from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood

Steven Goldstein
Format: Hardcover

How do Tiffany Haddish, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Apple's Tim Cook turn us on, and why do some other public figures drive us crazy and turn us off? And who are the behind-the-scenes gurus who help public figures turn us on or off? Steven Goldstein, a civil rights leader who has worked...
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg · Avery
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming...
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The Beauty of Everyday Things

Soetsu Yanagi · Penguin Classics
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of Japanese design as we know it today: anonymity, quality, simplicity and honesty - and, of course, wabi-sabi, the beauty of imperfectionA Penguin...
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The History of Philosophy

Grayling, A. C. · Penguin Press
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkersThe story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores...
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

Kleinman, Arthur · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began...
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