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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy · Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Mark C. Taylor · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

We live in an ever-accelerating world faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives.  When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable?  Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art,...
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The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want: How to be assertive with wit, style and grace

Mary Hartley · Random House Inc
Pages: 201
Format: Paperback

Do you feel like you're not heard but you don't want to have to scream?Personal development coach Mary Hartley explains the secrets of assertiveness - of how to communicate with other people in ways that are confident, effective - but also considerate. Mary reveals the simple steps...
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Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir

Rita Zoey Chin · Simon & Schuster; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free.When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father's violence and her mother's...
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

Michael P Lynch · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promise to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips,...
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation

Laura Kipnis · Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the pageIts no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years weve witnessed so many spectacular public...
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong

David Edmonds · Princeton University Press

A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge,...
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The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed-in Your World

Jeffrey Kluger · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning senior writer at Time, an eye-opening exploration of narcissism, how to recognize it, and how to handle it. The odds are good that you know a narcissist—probably a lot of them. The odds are also good that they are intelligent, confident, and articulate—the center...
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The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome

Maxine Aston · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition

Does your other half have Asperger Syndrome (AS) or do you suspect that he or she is on the autism spectrum? This quick and helpful relationships guide provides all the information you need for relationship success with your AS partner. The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome was the first...
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When Someone You Know Has Depression: Words to Say and Things to Do

Susan J Noonan · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other...
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