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Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short
Matthew Gutmann · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates
Why do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From vulgar locker-room talk to mansplaining to sexual harassment, society is too quick... |
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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
Carrie Jenkins · Basic Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better. In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have... |
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Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential
Philip T Yanos · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
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Written-Off tells the story of how mental health stigma comes to have a profound impact on the lives of people diagnosed with mental illnesses. It reviews theory, research, and history - illustrated with a multitude of personal stories - in four major areas. These areas are: the prevalence... |
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How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy
Louis Althusser · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's... |
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Can't You Hear Them?: The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices
Simon McCarthy-Jones · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
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The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account,... |
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The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again
Chase Mielke · ASCD
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
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How can you energize yourself to maintain or regain a positive outlook and love of teaching? What specific, immediate actions can you take to enhance your well-being and thrive both on and off the job? Award-winning teacher Chase Mielke draws from his own research, lesson plans, and experiences... |
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Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
JAIME LOWE · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating,... |
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Where Are the Women?: Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better
Sarah Tyson · Columbia University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Philosophy has not just excluded women. It has also been shaped by the exclusion of women. As the field grapples with the reality that sexism is a central problem not just for the demographics of the field but also for how philosophy is practiced, many philosophers have begun to rethink... |
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As If: Idealization and Ideals
Anthony Appiah · Harvard University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models... |
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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Liz Fosslien · Portfolio
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."
--Susan Cain, author of Quiet
A hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms.
How... |
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Steven Sloman · Riverhead Books
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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"The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom." - Steven Pinker
We all think we know more than we actually do.
Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most... |
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