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New Titles - Psychology & Philosophy
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Stress: The Psychology of Managing Pressure
DK. · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Covering sources of stress in every area of life: work, exams, relationships, social pressure, money, and more, this practical guide combines infographics and self-analysis questionnaires to make information easy to access and apply.This dynamic infographic program, founded on cutting-edge... |
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Noam Chomsky · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Global Discontents is a compelling set of interviews with Noam Chomsky, who identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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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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Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
Mark Stein · Potomac Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that... |
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand of matchbook... |
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The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
GAYLE BRANDEIS · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicideGayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility... |
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Meg Jay · Twelve
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal": those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.Whether it is bullying, the loss of a parent to divorce or death, an alcoholic or mentally ill family member,... |
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An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division
DALAI LAMA · William Morrow
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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In this brief, urgent "appeal to the world," His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses our time of division, calling on us to draw upon the innate goodness of our shared humanity to overcome the rancor, mistrust, and divisiveness that threaten world peace and sustainability. ?"I... |
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