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Mindfulness and Meditation: Your Questions Answered
Blaise A Aguirre · Greenwood Pages: 125 Format: Hardcover
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This book serves as an approachable introduction to the topics of mindfulness and meditation, especially as they relate to teens and young adults. The information, guidance, and resources it offers make it a valuable tool for anyone curious about this enduring and trending topic.* Makes... |
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Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1
Peter Adamson · Oxford University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible,... |
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price · Sterling Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,... |
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Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety Is Putting Us All at Risk
Tracey Brown · Sourcebooks Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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Can a cell phone cause a major explosion at a gas station? What would happen if the 3 oz rule at airports was abolished? And are all the child protection measures really making children safer? These rules exist in the name of our own protection, but has anyone ever stopped to consider exactly... |
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs · Convergent Books Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan... |
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When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness
Rebecca Woolis · Penguin; 2nd Penguin edition Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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An essential resource--featuring 50 proven Quick Reference guides--for the millions of parents, siblings, and friends of people with mental illness, as well as professionals in the field. |
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Jeffrey A. Lieberman · Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping... |
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Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Eden Collinsworth · Nan A. Talese Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 1008 Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duos—from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—Joshua Wolf... |
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY · Random House Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means... |
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Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
Mark C. Taylor · Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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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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