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The Handy Psychology Answer Book
Lisa J Cohen - Visible Ink Press
Format: Print book
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Bridging the gap between the entertainment-focused "pop psychology" on television and the dry academic research that is published in journals, The Handy Psychology Answer Book helps answer why humans do what we do through accurate scientific data presented in a lively,... |
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey - Harper
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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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that... |
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir
SUSAN GUBAR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging." -- Stephen GreenblattOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles... |
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
Michael Ignatieff - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes -- war, famine, pandemic -- we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where... |
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,... |
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions - even abandoning his phone for three months... |
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Jo Marchant - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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A New York Times BestsellerA rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the bodyHave you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt... |
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