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It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with
Winifred M Reilly · Touchstone
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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With a focus on self-empowerment and resilience, this refreshing and witty relationship guide has a reassuring counterintuitive message for unhappy spouses: you only need one partner to initiate far-reaching positive change in a marriage.Conventional wisdom says that "it takes two"... |
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The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
Brooke Gladstone · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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Reality. It used to seem so simple - reality just was, like the weather. Why question it, let alone disagree about it? And then came the assault, an unending stream of "fake news," "alternative facts," and lies disguised as truths that is overwhelming our notions of reality.... |
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Green: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue and Black presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today. Examining the evolving place of green in art, clothes, literature, religion, science,... |
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Yawn: Adventures in Boredom
Mary Mann · FSG Originals
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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The incisive and often hilarious story of one of our most interesting cultural phenomena: boredomIt's the feeling your grandma told you was only experienced by boring people. Some people say they're dying of it; others claim to have killed because of it. It's a key component... |
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Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
STEPHEN HINSHAW · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."Parallel to An Unquiet... |
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
JORDAN PETERSON · Random House Canada
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative,... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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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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Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
JAIME LOWE · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating,... |
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
Malene Rydahl · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year... |
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Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
NAOKI HIGASHIDA · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which became an international... |
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The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
Ethan Nichtern · North Point Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachersDo you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?... |
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