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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir
David Fajgenbaum - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath... |
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
Robert A. Gross - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In the year of the nation's bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this... |
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Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
Scott A. Small - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Who wouldn't want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast... |
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Todays inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means.... |
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The Anatomy of Evil
Michael H Stone - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVILIn this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort... |
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The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations
Jaime L Kurtz - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Travel is one of the most sought-after experiences in life. It has the singular ability to capture our imaginations, serving as a canvas onto which we project our deepest desires and needs: escape, relaxation, transcendence, interpersonal connection, cultural education, and more. Few things... |
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