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This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Martin Hägglund · Pantheon
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both... |
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Tia Powell · Avery
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother,... |
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The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
Michael H. Stone MD · Prometheus Books
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani · Currency
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said or did might... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect... |
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Julia Shaw · Abrams Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique... |
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The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide, Third Edition: What You and Your Family Need to Know
David J. Miklowitz · The Guilford Press
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
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Over 275,000 bipolar sufferers and their loved ones have found the crucial information and support they need in this indispensable guide, now in a thoroughly updated third edition. Trusted authority David J. Miklowitz explains the nature and causes of bipolar illness and provides science-based... |
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment,... |
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