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New Titles - Psychology & Philosophy
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How to be yourself : quiet your inner critic and rise above social anxiety
Ellen Hendriksen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Picking up where Quiet ended, How to Be Yourself is the best book you'll ever read about how to conquer social anxiety. "This book is also a groundbreaking road map to finally being your true, authentic self. " --Susan Cain, New York Times, USA Today and nationally bestselling... |
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Scientology in Popular Culture: Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy
Stephen A Kent · Praeger
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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This multidisciplinary study of Scientology examines the organization and the controversies around it through the lens of popular culture, referencing movies, television, print, and the Internet -- an unusual perspective that will engage a wide range of readers and researchers.* Discusses... |
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The Kevin Show: An Olympic Athlete's Battle with Mental Illness
Mary Pilon · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall, and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor.... |
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Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Unlock Your Potential to Achieve Anything
Robert Twigger · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Fresh advice for becoming a lifelong learner. Hint: Think small.Forget spending 10,000 hours in the pursuit of perfecting just one thing, à la Malcolm Gladwell. The true path to success and achievement lies in the pursuit of perfecting lots and lots of small things--what Robert Twigger... |
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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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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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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments. With... |
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Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times
Leon Kass · Encounter Books
Pages: 401
Format: Hardcover
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Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture... |
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