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Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine
Michele Borba - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling author of UnSelfie offers 7 teachable traits that will safeguard our kids for the future.We think we have to push our kids to do more, achieve more, BE more. But we're modeling the wrong traits - like rule-following and caution - and research shows it's NOT working.... |
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What We Owe the Future
WILLIAM MACASKILL - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that." - Ezra KleinAn Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"... |
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A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
VICTORIA SHEPHERD - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire'Fascinating and compassionate' Horatio Clare The King of France - thinking he was made of glass - was terrified he might shatter ... and he wasn't alone.After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into... |
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Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda
John Maxwell Hamilton
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public PolicyManipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument... |
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Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America
Dan Pfeiffer - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-host of Pod Save America - how to combat political truth decay and baldfaced lies of the Right Wing propaganda machine.In BATTLING THE BIG LIE, bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer dissects how the Right Wing built a massive, billionaire funded... |
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Being You: The Body Image Book for Boys
Charlotte Markey - Cambridge University Press
Format: 1st Edition
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From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account... |
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Sadness is a superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we've been so blind to its value. "Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn't let go."... |
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Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
Ayelet Fishbach - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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Discover a "compelling" and revelatory framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mindset) , from a psychologist on the cutting edge of motivational science. A great deal of ink has been spilled on the subject of motivating and influencing others,... |
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Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
Lucy Foulkes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotionsPublic awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused... |
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