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Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Jennifer O'toole · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome,... |
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Lights On, Rats Out: A Memoir
Cree LeFavour · Grove Press
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
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"A harrowing, beautiful, searching, and deeply literary memoir. In these pages, we watch Cree LeFavour evolve from a wounded (and wounding) lost girl to a woman who can at last regard her existence with a modicum of mercy and forgiveness...a story of true self-salvation and transformation."... |
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Mark Twain and Philosophy
Alan H Goldman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on humanity and American life, is best known for his classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's body of work, however, is expansive; from Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut... |
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Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide
Frederic Lenoir · Melville House
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on - from... |
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only one side... |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
RYAN HAMPTON · All Points Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution?... |
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
Carolyn Purnell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem... |
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The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
Scott Hartley · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading venture capitalists offers surprising revelations on who is going to be leading innovation in the years to comeScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social... |
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