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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
Daniel J. Siegel - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity. When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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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 Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Darby Penney - Bellevue Literary Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum--the sort of community in which, for better and for worse,... |
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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
Shankar Vedantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a counterintuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success.Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities, and to the planet. But in Useful... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone... |
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
Ross W Greene - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important... |
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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedys allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve... |
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Mate? - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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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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