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Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

Wednesday Martin - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have...
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Mate? - Avery
Format: Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western...
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Reality : Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David J. Chalmers - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality . In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers...
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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 Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It

Timothy Sandefur - Encounter Books
Format: Print book

Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised "freedoms" to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,...
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It

Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive...
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Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

Tovah P. Klein Phd - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Amy SchumerChild development expert and author of How Toddlers Thrive, Dr. Tovah Klein gives parents the confidence they need to help children and teens build resilience and flourish in an unpredictable world.Whether it's national or global events affecting our sense of safety...
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

Clare Carlisle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage.. In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot -- an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel....
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Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

Zoe Chance - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Zoe Chance has been a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesperson, and the brand manager for massive accounts. Years spent trying to get people to buy stuff they didn't really want or need taught her something fundamental about human nature and about how to really influence people over...
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Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Lee McIntyre - The MIT Press
Format: Paperback

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here?...
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