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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite · Plume
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
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**An International Bestseller**"Like Big Little Lies, A Beautiful Terrible Thing is a startling reminder that fairy tales aren't real. A master class in suspenseful storytelling, Jen Waite recounts the lies, betrayals, and infidelity she endured with unrestrained honesty and deft candor.... |
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri Hustvedt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works.... |
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The Secret Place
Tana French · VIKING
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
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An absolutely mesmerizing read Tana French is simply this a truly great writer Gillian Flynn Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French the most interesting most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years The Washington Post and don t miss her newest The Trespasser now available... |
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What Philosophy Can Do
Gary Gutting · W W Norton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity." -- Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone ReaderHow can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media... |
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Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
Simon Blackburn · Princeton University Press
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Drawing on philosophy, psychology, literature, history,... |
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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
Stephan M D Guyenet · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become... |
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI · Doubleday
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient... |
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The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
Dave Amerland · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge, situational awareness, knowledge of ballistics and physics, and soft skills such as emotional stability, empathy, and a stoic acceptance of the hardships associated with a particular... |
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego - a boy who had stopped growing... |
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Preschool Clues: Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World
Angela C. Santomero · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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The award-winning creator of Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows' powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational "clues" to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially,... |
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Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Lisa Damour · Ballantine Books
Pages: 326
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School's Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter's erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural. Untangled... |
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Stephen King and Philosophy
Jacob M. Held · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Semetary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for over forty years. His characters have... |
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The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
Yochi Dreazen · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons - one to suicide and one in combat - and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces' suicide epidemic.Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons,... |
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