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Above the Line: Living and Leading with Heart
Stephen Klemich · Harper Business
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A leadership consultant and neuropsychologist identify the universal habits of the heart and mind - the keys to eliminating behavior patterns that hold us back, unlocking our true potential, and creating our best selves.Why is it so hard for leaders to coach employees who are struggling?... |
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Gaia Vince · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destinyWhat enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains,... |
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Alice Gorman
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering space archaeologist explores artifacts left behind in space and on Earth, from moon dust to Elon Musk's red sports car.Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist: she examines the artifacts of human encounters with space. These objects, left behind on Earth and in space, can be massive... |
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A Cloud a Day:
Gavin Pretor-Pinney · Chronicle Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations... |
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Dictionary of the Undoing
John Freeman · MCD
Format: Paperback
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For John Freeman -- literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, "one of the preeminent book people of our time" (Dave Eggers) -- it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable... |
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Geometry: Understanding Shapes and Sizes
Mike Goldsmith · Shelter Harbor Pr
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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Geometry does not have to be confusing! Inside Mathematics: Geometry helps make sense of all of those lines and angles by showing its fascinating origins and how that knowledge is applied in everyday life. Written to engage and enthuse young minds, this accessible overview introduces... |
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The Joy of Forest Bathing: Reconnect With Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life
Choukas-Bradley, Melanie · Rock Point
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
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Being present in a forest, or other wild area, can produce mental, emotional, and physical health benefits. The Joy of Forest Bathing is a simple antidote to our nature-starved lives. The Joy of Forest Bathing is a beginner's guide to forest bathing - or Shinrin-yoku, in Japan-- the meditative... |
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
ChristopherCaldwell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.Christopher Caldwell has spent... |
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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Jennifer S. Hirsch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault.The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. And for far too many students, that fear is realized.... |
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