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When Colorblindness Isn't the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race
Anthony B Pinn · Pitchstone Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain divided over what if any agenda should guide humanist thought and action toward questions of race. In this volume, Anthony B. Pinn makes... |
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Memoir About Anxiety
SARAH WILSON · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age - anxiety - viewing this widespread condition not as a burdensome affliction but as a powerful spiritual teacher that can deepen our lives.While reading psychiatrist... |
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
COMEL WEST · Beacon Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise... |
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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Gail Saltz · Flatiron Books
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities," revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths. In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling... |
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain through nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathize, and understand the world around us, but how would... |
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson · Atria Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change, providing... |
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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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Under My Helmet: A Football Player's Lifelong Battle with Bipolar Disorder
Keith O'Neil · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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An athlete's battle with mental illness. Ever since he was a child, Keith O'Neil wanted to play football. Born on the same day that his father, Ed O'Neil, was cut from the New England Patriots, football was all Keith could think about . . . aside from his anxiety. Offered a scholarship... |
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI · Doubleday
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient... |
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Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy
Bonnie St John · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day--every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus... |
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Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
MICHAEL HARRIS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword from Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows.Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely... |
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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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