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44 Chapters About 4 Men

BB Easton
Format: Paperback

School psychologists aren't supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be considered "unethical" and "a fireable offense." Lucky for you, ethics was never my strong suit.Sex/Life: 44 Chapters About 4 Men is a laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest look at female...
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The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

Robyn Stein DeLuca PhD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

It's time for women to reject the "hormone myth" and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way. This provocative book exposes pervasive myths about women's hormones and shows how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women "in their place."...
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Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves

LEE DANIEL KRAVETZ - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion.In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died...
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Christopher Blattman - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A seasoned peacebuilder and acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly processIt's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions...
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family

Arabella Carter-Johnson - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,...
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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens...
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

Mark Solms - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life.For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem"...
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Borderline Personality Disorder For Dummies

Charles H. Elliott
Format: Paperback(2nd ed.)

Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships....
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

Wolfram Eilenberger - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians,...
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The Dictionary of Body Language: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

Joe Navarro - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the world's #1 body language expert* comes the essential book for decoding human behavior"The ultimate body language reference. I'll be both referring to and recommending this book on a daily basis for many years to come." - Amy CuddyJoe Navarro has spent a lifetime observing...
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