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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long , · Hudson Street Press Format: Hardcover |
Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother... |
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer MD · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover |
Expert advice from the medical director of the countrys largest state mental health system and the mental health editor of The Huffington Post. More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level.... |
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Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Phil Rosenzweig · PublicAffairs Pages: 315 Format: Hardcover |
Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors, such as searching only for confirming information or avoiding the hindsight bias. But as Phil... |
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan · Times Books Format: Hardcover |
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find... |
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Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time
Garry Wills · Yale University Press Format: Hardcover |
Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well,... |
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