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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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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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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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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey... |
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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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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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Afraid to Let Go. For Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics
Mary Crocker Cook · Robertson Publishing
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback
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You are not Codependent simply because your adult child is an addict or alcoholic. All parents of addicted children of any age are terrified, confused, feel out of control, lose sleep, dread the phone calls at 3:00 in the morning. This book is for parents who are Afraid to Let Go because... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. · Random House
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt · W.W. Norton
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from... |
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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: 256
Format: Audiobook
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With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promises 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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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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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 Beauty of a Darker Soul: Overcoming Trauma Through the Power of Human Connection
Joshua Mantz · Lioncrest Publishing
Pages: 273
Format: Paperback
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This is a journey of finding beauty within darkness. Former Army Major Josh Mantz reaches into the deepest corners of the human soul to expose the most difficult emotions associated with traumatic experiences. Mantz was shot and killed by a sniper on the streets of Baghdad and flatlined... |
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When the War Never Ends: The Voices of Military Members with PTSD and Their Families
Leah Wizelman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
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The chances of service members developing PTSD after military-related traumas is, according to a U.S. study, at least 30 percent. The effects of PTSD can be devastating, ranging, for example, from distressing flashbacks, nightmares, sleep disorders, physical symptoms, irritability, aggressions,... |
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