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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

DANIEL TAMMET · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing...
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Big Ideas: The Little Book of Psychology

DK. · DK
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A compact, portable introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind psychology laid out in DK's signature visual style--the ultimate guide to understanding psychology on the go.Take Freud to your fiesta! This compact guide enables you to explore more than 100 groundbreaking...
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I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy

CRIS BEAM · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking,...
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Silence: In the Age of Noise

Erling Kagge · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These...
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The Intuitive Parent: Why the Best Thing for Your Child Is You

STEPHEN PH D CAMARATA · Portfolio
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

You already have everything you need to raise a healthy, happy, intelligent childParenting today is practically a competitive sport, and marketers are all too happy to cash in. Scare tactics and scientific-sounding jargon make it seem like parents are in constant danger of hard-wiring their...
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Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within

Chade-Meng Tan · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena.In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng...
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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities

Bill Eddy · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Some difficult people aren't just hard to deal with - they're dangerous. Do you know someone whose moods swing wildly? Do they act unreasonably suspicious or antagonistic? Do they blame others for their own problems? When a high-conflict person has one of five common personality disorders...
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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide

Deborah Serani · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention...
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Loving Your Children More Than You Hate Each Other: Powerful Tools for Navigating a High-Conflict Divorce

Jeffrey Zimmerman · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Hate your ex but love your kids? If so, this much-needed guide offers practical tips and strategies to help you manage intense emotions, deal with shame and blame, and create a peaceful, loving environment for your children.Let's face it - divorce is tough. In a high-conflict divorce,...
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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy · Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014 All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly dismayed at how today's media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping...
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Anxiety Relief for Kids: On-the-Spot Strategies to Help Your Child Overcome Worry, Panic, and Avoidance

BRIDGET FLYNN WALKER · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

If you have a child with anxiety, you need quick, in-the-moment solutions you can easily use now to help your child face their fears and worries. Written by a psychologist and expert in childhood anxiety, this easy-to-use guide offers proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

SCOTT ADAMS · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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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Big Ideas: The Little Book of Philosophy

DK. · DK
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A compact, portable introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind philosophy laid out in DK's signature visual style--the ultimate guide to understanding philosophy on the go.Take Descartes along on your day trip! This compact guide explores the history and concepts of philosophy,...
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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate...
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