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A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Jerome J McGann - Harvard University Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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A manifesto for the humanities in the digital age, A New Republic of Letters argues that the history of texts, together with the methods by which they are preserved and made available for interpretation, are the overriding subjects of humanist study in the twenty-first century. Theory and philosophy,... |
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein presents a how-to guide rooted in two traditions, Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better lifeOur ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better,... |
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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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How To Think Like a Neandertal
Thomas Wynn - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours?In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Naomi Judd - Center St
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world... |
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Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
Po Bronson - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller Po Bronson and Ashley Merrymans work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled... |
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Happy Me, Happy You: The Huna Way to Healthy Relationships
Serge Kahili King - Quest Books
Format: Paperback
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This exuberant guide is special among the many books on relationships because of Serge King's seasoned perspective as a master Huna shaman and alternative healer. "The problem between two people is never a 'relationship' that isn't working," he says. "It is always... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Warren Farrell - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis... |
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell - Little
Format: Print book
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Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles... |
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - "The Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg Businessweek - Bookish" FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS... |
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Myths about Suicide
Thomas Joiner - Harvard University Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones—and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important... |
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists... |
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Sendhil Mullainathan - Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our cultureWhy do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find... |
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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Eduardo Galeano - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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Selected by Guernica magazine as an "Editors' Picks: Best of 2013"Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines... |
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Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Daniel Smith - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence.... |
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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
Carrie Jenkins - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social... |
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Psychology: A Complete Introduction
Sandi Mann - John Murray Learning
Format: Print book
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Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like summaries... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading."... |
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Taking Charge of ADHD, Third Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
Russell A. Barkley - The Guilford Press; 3rd edition
Format: Audiobook
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From distinguished researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this treasured parent resource gives you the science-based information you need about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment. It also presents a proven eight-step behavior management plan specifically... |
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For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
Shaunti Feldhahn - Multnomah Publishers
Format: Print book
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What's going on in a man's mind? From their early days, every woman has struggled to understand why males behave the way they do. Even long-married women who think they understand men have only scratched the surface. Beneath a man's rugged exterior is an even more rugged, unmapped... |
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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away
Eric G. Wilson - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why can't we look away?Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass... |
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that... |
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey - Knopf
Format: Print book
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Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle... |
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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The Boston Globe"Surprising and remarkable ... Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars."Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select... |
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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Alexandra Horowitz - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the giant 1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitzs brilliant On Looking Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost... |
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromPlenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments.... |
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The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
Jordan Shapiro - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research... |
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Sex Again: Recharging Your Libido
Jill Blakeway - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Print book
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Despite what you see on movies and TV, Americans have less sex than people in any other country. One in three women, of all ages, reports a lack of interest in sex, and more than 40 million Americans in relationships are having no sex at all. But rather than feeling complacent about it, most... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York TimesA memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane... |
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Animal Rights: All That Matters
Mark Rowlands - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating introduction into the controversial topic of animal rights Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, is one of the world's best known philosopher of animal rights. In Animal Rights: All That Matters, he explores specific issues of eating animals, experimentation,... |
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After the Tears: Helping Adult Children of Alcoholics Heal Their Childhood Trauma
Jane Middelton-Moz - HCI; Rev Exp edition
Format: Paperback
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The trauma and grief of growing up in an alcoholic or addicted family create a lifetime of baggage. If you grew up in an addicted family, the dysfunction that permeated every aspect of your childhood may have seemed 'normal,' and you may not even realize the level of affect alcohol... |
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
Sarah Wise - Counterpoint; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical... |
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Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid
Shaun Gallagher - Perigee Books
Format: Print book
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Babies can be a joyand hard work. Now, they can also be a 50-in-1 science project kit!This fascinating and hands-on guide shows you how to re-create landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, language, and behavioral developmentusing your own bundle of joy as the research subject.... |
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Alison Stewart - Chicago Review
Format: Print book
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Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying... |
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Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
James Lasdun - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the authors strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student a self-styled verbal terrorist who began trying in her words to ruin him Hate mail online postings and public accusations... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories... |
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food... |
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Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Katherine Angel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of O Magazine’s Must-Read Books for June 2013A provocative and personal meditation on sex, power, and female desireToday’s women, we’re told, have more options in exercising their desire than ever before in history. And yet the way we talk about desire... |
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The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Learn about human nature, behavior and how the mind works with The Psychology Book.. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Psychology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book
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A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life.... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles... |
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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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2020 Audie Finalist As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does... |
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
Adrian Raine - Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughoutWhy do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing... |
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Our Superheroes, Ourselves
Robin S. Rosenberg - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Superhero fans are everywhere, from the teeming halls of Comic Con to suburban movie theaters, from young children captivated by their first comic books to the die-hard collectors of vintage memorabilia. Why are so many people fascinated by superheroes? In this thoughtful, engaging, and at times... |
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Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
STEVE CASNER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions." - Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of HabitA safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think... |
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The Quarry: When the Monster Lives at Home
Sally Rice - Next Revelation Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Quarry, by Sally Rice, is a riveting, true story of a single mother's desperate efforts to protect her children from a cunning child molester, who lived in her home and slept in her bed.Interwoven in The Quarry's storyline is the further tragedy that Sally experiences as she is vilified... |
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Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity
Alan Iny - Random House
Format: Book
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When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters. LIGHTERS? With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a... |
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Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss
Joseph J. Luciani - AMACOM
Format: Print book
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Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? Youre not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on. Thin from Within delves... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Bren Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty... |
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The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction
Regina Luttrell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Weve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. Weve also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls.... |
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel Goleman - HarperCollins Canada
Format: Hardcover
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In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.Combining cutting-edge research with practical... |
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Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions
Samuel A Culbert - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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There's far more bad management behavior taking place today than the well-intentioned doling it out realize... and even more than those on the receiving end are aware of! There's little mystery about what good management entails; the biggest mystery is why people are calling this... |
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Paul Bloom - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and familyMost people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers,... |
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Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization
John J. Ratey - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover
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The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In GO WILD, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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The Story of Philosophy, Revised and Updated
Bryan Magee - Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly successful The Story of Philosophy traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece to Saint Augustine and medieval philosophy, the golden century of German philosophy, Bertrand Russell... |
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Frailty, Suffering, and Vice: Flourishing in the Face of Human Limitations
Blaine J Fowers - American Psychological Association
Format: Hardcover
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Positive psychology studies the strengths that enable individuals to thrive and is founded on the belief that people want to cultivate their best virtues and traits; that we want to enhance our lives by embracing our best selves. But we are imperfect creatures. How do we realize our best... |
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Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined
Scott Barry Kaufman - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance... |
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The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths
John Gray - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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A searching, captivating look at the persistence of myth in our modern world“By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright.”In a book by turns chilling and beautiful,... |
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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Susan Peirce Thompson - Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by John Robbins, author of the international bestseller DIET FOR A NEW AMERICAIn this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge... |
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Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression
Jay Griffiths - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover
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"There are galaxies within the human mind, and madness wants to risk everything for the daring flight, reckless and beautiful and crazed. Everyone knows Icarus fell.But I love him for the fact that he dared to fly. Mania unfurls the invitation to fly too high, too near the sun..."Tristimania... |
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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Daniel J Siegel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. A scientist's exploration into the mysteries of the human mind. What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents -- its emotions, thoughts, and memories -- are often described,... |
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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer MD - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Expert advice from the medical director of the countrys largest state mental health system and themental health editor of TheHuffington Post. More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left... |
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Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder, and Madness
Diane Cameron - Central Recovery Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In March of 1953, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China during the Japanese invasion of 1937, murdered his wife and mother-in-law. After serving twenty-two years in Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, he was released and eventually married again. A decade later,... |
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Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists
Craig Malkin - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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When most of us hear the word narcissism or narcissist, we envision vain, preening, braggarts who can't stop talking about themselves. But most of the time, we've got it wrong; many narcissists aren't driven by looks,fame, or money - some may even be shy or soft spoken. The startling truth... |
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The Creative Landscape of Aging
Judith Zausner - Caring Crafts, inc.
Format: Print book
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The Creative Landscape of Aging, winner of the 2015 National Mature Media Award, presents compelling essays that explore the power and grace of creativity and aging from an intimate perspective. Includes a series of interviews with successful older artists such as Judith Leiber, Nelson... |
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The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
LLOYD SEDERER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking examination of addiction from the Chief Medical Officer for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance... |
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Steven A Sloman - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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"The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom." - Steven PinkerWe all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us dont even know... |
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Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It
Dr. David Lewis - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time" has been the limp excuse of many a person whose actions later became cause for regret. Although we see ourselves as rational beings, we are far more likely to act according to impulse than logic. Nor is this always a bad thing, David Lewis... |
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Introduction to Jung In a Week: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself: Relationships & Self-Help)
Ruth Snowden
Format: Book : Picture : Manuscript Archival Material : English : Rev. and expanded ed
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Learn in a week, remember for a lifetime! In just one week, this accessible book will give you knowledge to last forever. End of chapter summaries and multiple choice questions are all designed to help you test your knowledge and gain confidence. So whether you are a student or you simply... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly... |
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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Peter Vronsky - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide - including information on America's most prolific serial killers.In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first... |
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Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter
Joseph Westfall - Open Court
Format: Paperback
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Hannibal Lecter, the subject of best-selling novels, movies, and the acclaimed TV series Hannibal, is one of pop culture's most compelling characters. In Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy, 16 philosophers come at Hannibal the way he comes at his victims - from unexpected angles and with... |
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
James MacGregor Burns - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that... |
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and... |
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When Will I Be Good Enough?: A Replacement Child's Journey to Healing
BARBARA JAFFE - Lisa Hagan Books
Format: Paperback
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Have you ever wondered, "When will I be good enough?" Like millions of other women, educator/author Barbara Jaffe was faced with that question, but for her, as a "replacement child," the barriers to acceptability were higher than for most of us. Barbara, like many others,... |
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The Autistic Spectrum: All That Matters
Lorna Selfe - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating introduction to the autistic spectrum In Autism: All That Matters, Lorna Selfe strips away the many myths around autism, focusing instead on what we really know about its varieties, causes, and treatments. As such, it is the ideal introduction to autistic spectrum disorders... |
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Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe
JESS SHATKIN - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, research-based guide that sheds new light on why young people make dangerous choices--and offers solutions that workTexting while driving. Binge-drinking. Bullying. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about... |
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The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman - Penguin Press HC, The; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that... |
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