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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind." -- Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question,... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve Pages: 168 Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · Wordsworth Reference Pages: 724 Format: Paperback
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls · University Of Chicago Press Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
Scott Barry Kaufman · Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015. Pages: 252 Format: Print book
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Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative... |
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The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24-7
Kevin Hogan · Network 3000 Pages: 304 Format: Book
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A simple and tested system to reduce or eliminate procrastination, meet your goals and live the life and lifestyle you choose. A radical departure from self help books, this book is grounded in research about individual productivity, time management and goal achievement. The author explains... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese · Grove Press Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have... |
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner · Bibliomotion Pages: 244 Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
Tony Attwood · Jessica Kingsley Pub Pages: 397 Format: Hardcover
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"I usually say to the child, "Congratulations, you have Asperger's syndrome", and explain that this means he or she is not mad, bad or defective, but has a different way of thinking." - from "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome". "The Complete... |
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · Penguin Books Pages: 832 Format: Paperback
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"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this - the most inspiring book I've ever read." - Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not,... |
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Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
Michael Krasny · New World Library Pages: 264 Format: Paperback
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As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews · Metropolitan Books Pages: 784 Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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