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Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis
David Kieran · NYU Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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The surprising story of the Army's efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on the mental health of our troops. In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama took to the Senate floor to tell his colleagues that "many... |
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Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
Anna Merlan · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,... |
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists... |
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder... |
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Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You've Always Wanted
Kimberly Friedmutter · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Activate the raw power of your subconscious to create the life you've always wanted, using six essential lessons from one of the world's most renowned hypnotherapists.Unsatisfying careers. Volatile, unhealthy relationships. Unfulfilled dreams. Too many of us are living lives that... |
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to CharacterEvery so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows with a kind... |
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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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