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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With... |
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Sex, Drugs 'n Facebook . . .: A Parent's Toolkit for Promoting Healthy Internet Use
Megan Moreno · Hunter House; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Forget sex, drugs, and rock & roll — today's parents and teachers have to deal with cyberbullying, sexting, internet addiction, and exposure to inappropriate online content. Fortunately, expert researcher Dr. Megan Moreno has written this book as a guide to help you teach your... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen... |
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I Wish He Had Come with Instructions: The Woman's Guide to a Man's Brain
Mike Bechtle · Revell
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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What Is He Really Thinking? When a woman begins a relationship with a man, she may think she's found her knight in shining armor. As the relationship continues, that armor can begin to feel like a barricade she just can't get past it. What's he hiding in there, anyway?Relationship and communication... |
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Your Brain on Plants: The Authoritative Guide to Herbs for Mood and Mind
Nicolette Perry · The Experiment
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
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By expert authors in both medicinal herbs and neuroscience - an unprecedented, highly informative, plant-by-plant guide to improving mind, mood, and memoryThe importance of mental and physical health, separately and together, is rising in the consciousness of Western and alternative medicine,... |
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromPlenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions,... |
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Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition
John E. Dowling · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures -- our brains. No reader curious about our "little grey cells" will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling's brief introduction to the brain. In this up-to-date revision of his 1998 book Creating... |
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How to be yourself : quiet your inner critic and rise above social anxiety
Ellen Hendriksen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Picking up where Quiet ended, How to Be Yourself is the best book you'll ever read about how to conquer social anxiety. "This book is also a groundbreaking road map to finally being your true, authentic self. " --Susan Cain, New York Times, USA Today and nationally bestselling... |
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When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery
Barbara Barski-Carrow · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery explains how managers and co-workers can learn to foster the process of emotional recovery for traumatized employees returning to the workplace.No other resource teaches managers and co-workers how to treat fellow co-workers... |
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The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
LLOYD SEDERER · Scribner
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking examination of addiction from the Chief Medical Officer for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance... |
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics
Ruwen Ogien · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right... |
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey... |
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