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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

Iris Gottlieb · Chronicle Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread,...
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The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are

Alicia Menendez · HarperBusiness
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means?Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental...
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The Tao of Ordinariness: Humility and Simplicity in a Narcissistic Age

Robert J. Wicks · Oxford University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

This book is an invitation to come home to your authentic self in a world that is frequently mesmerized by "spin," narcissism, fantasy, and exhibitionism. Psychology and classic wisdom literature have, in various ways, long recognized the value for simply becoming who you are (i.e.,...
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Outsmart Your Smartphone: Conscious Tech Habits for Finding Happiness, Balance, and Connection IRL

Tchiki Davis PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Do you have "smartphone syndrome?" This refreshingly honest how-to guide will help you find balance and build meaningful connections in a screen-obsessed world.Do you spend hours every day on your smartphone or tablet? Reading the news, shopping for clothes, checking your email,...
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What's My Child Thinking?

Kennedy-Moore, Eileen · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Make every moment with your child count. Tap into the psychology behind your child's behavior at every stage of development, and respond with confidence.Find out what your child really means when he says "Look what I did", "But I'm not tired," or "You're...
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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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The Turn-On: How the Powerful Make Us Like Them-from Washington to Wall Street to Hollywood

Steven Goldstein · HarperBusiness
Pages: 368
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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