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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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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Joel Gold - Free Press, 2015. ©2014
Format: Print book
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A "clear, witty, and engaging" (The Boston Globe) journey through the brain that connects neuroscience, biology, and culture. An "intellectual landmark" (Edward Shorter, Literary Review of Canada) .The current view of delusions - the strange beliefs held by people... |
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Jeffrey A. Lieberman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping... |
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Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
Martin Puchner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past?... |
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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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Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
Henry David Thoreau - Literary Classics of the United States
Format: Print book
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Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week... |
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