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The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world
David Eagleman · Catapult
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman teams up with composer Anthony Brandt in this powerful, wide-ranging exploration of human creativity. Together, they incisively explore how individuals, organizations, and educational institutions can benefit from fostering... |
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Understanding OCD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Adam B Lewin · Jessica Kingsley
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals... |
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's... |
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Change the Story of Your Health: Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing
Carl Greer · Findhorn Press
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
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Do you want to improve your health? Manage a chronic condition or figure out how to cope with a sudden health issue, like an accident or illness? In his book Change the Story of Your Health: Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing, Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD -- an award-winning author,... |
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
Carolyn Purnell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem... |
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John Adams vs Thomas Paine: Rival Plans for the Early Republic
Jett B. Conner · Westholme Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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How Paine's Common Sense and Adams's Thoughts on Government shaped our modern political institutions Initially admiring Thomas Paine's efforts for independence, John Adams nevertheless was rattled by the political philosophy of Common Sense and responded to it by publishing... |
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are
Zoe Fraade-Blanar · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy... |
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Notes from the Sick Room
Steve Finbow · Repeater
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback
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Notes from the Sick Room is an investigation into the connections between physical illness and creativity. Although there are a number of books investigating mental illness and creativity, there are very few that concentrate on physical illness - cancer, HIV, tuberculosis and disabilities... |
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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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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E Harcourt · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. · Random House
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Random House
Pages: 279
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time... |
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