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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
David McCullough, Jr. · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 316
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David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech, shares... |
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Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time
Garry Wills · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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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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The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving
Lisa J Miller · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerUSA TODAY BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerIn The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows... |
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Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Phil Rosenzweig · PublicAffairs
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover |
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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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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long , · Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover |
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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 God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
A.C. Grayling · Bloomsbury USA; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover |
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What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--all of them--right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments that once and for all will show... |
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer MD · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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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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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan · Times Books
Format: Hardcover |
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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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Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Melanie Notkin · Pgw
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover |
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More American women are childless than ever before - nearly half those of childbearing age don't have children. While our society often assumes these women are "childfree by choice," that's not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children,... |
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