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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what...
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Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction

Robin Dreeke · Portfolio
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A former FBI agent shares his simple but powerful toolkit for assessing who you can trust--and who you can't.After two decades as a behavior analyst in the FBI, Robin Dreeke knows a thing or two about sizing people up. He's navigated complex situations that range from handling Russian...
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The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need

Ellen Karsh · Basic Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

From top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writingWritten by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive,...
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Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life

Scott Grafton · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience - works by Oliver Sacks come to mind - Physical Intelligence gives us a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don't engage) in all manner...
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

Siegel, Daniel J. · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What's the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors...
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One Degree Revolution: How the Wisdom of Yoga Inspires Small Shifts That Lead to Big Changes

Coby Kozlowski · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Innovative, accessible, and easily implemented, One Degree Revolution is acclaimed yoga educator and leadership coach Coby Kozlowski's holistic program for self-inquiry and personal transformation. Her philosophy is deeply connected to living yoga -- not just doing yoga. In fact, readers...
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The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth

Samuel Woolley · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives?Despite Samuel Woolley's warnings as early as 2013, the problem of online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association · American Psychological Association
Pages: 428
Format: Paperback

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social...
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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heartTara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands,...
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The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It

Tierney, John · Penguin Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read." - Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even...
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