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The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science
Cretien van van Campen · The MIT Press; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed... |
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One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life
Mitch Horowitz · Crown Publishers
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes, to the motivational bestsellers and New Age seminars to the twelve-step programs and support groups of the recovery movement and to the rise of positive... |
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek · Portfolio
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
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Finally in paperback: the New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150 million... |
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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
Harold Schechter · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Edgar Award Nominee Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: "SKYSCRAPER SLAYER," "BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB" read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly... |
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The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
Matthew J Hertenstein · Basic Books
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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Every day we make predictions based on limited information, in business and at home. Will this company's stock performance continue? Will the job candidate I just interviewed be a good employee? What kind of adult will my child grow up to be? We tend to dismiss our predictive minds... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
Carrie Jenkins · Basic Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social... |
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman · Avery, a member of Penguin Group USA
Pages: 534
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fictionA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism?... |
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Finding the True Self
Jinje · Lotus Lantern Books, Inc.; First edition
Format: Print book
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Through Dharma talks, QA, essays on practice, and conversations with leading scholars, Master Jinje speaks with urgency and compassion about the central work of his life finding ones true self. In a style at once encouraging and uncompromising, he shares his stories and stories of past... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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Champion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik
Cathleen Miller · University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the worlds foremost advocate for womens health... |
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