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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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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
Siri Hustvedt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception... |
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Perennial
Kelly Forsythe - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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The events of 1999's Columbine shooting preoccupy Forsythe in these poems, refracting her vision to encompass killer, victim, and herself as a girl, suddenly aware of the precarity of her own life and the porousness of her body to others' gaze, demands, violence. Deeply researched... |
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The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook
Howard Ball - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. In the 21st century, as a result of better health care and working conditions as well as advances in medical technology, we live much... |
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The Wisdom of Our Hands: Crafting, A Life
Doug Stowe
Format: Paperback
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A guide to living fully and humanely by learning the wisdom of authentic manual work.Many of us live in a world of constant abstraction, immersed in our heads and our screens. But there is a deeper wisdom to be found in working with our hands in the real world. In The Wisdom of Our Hands,... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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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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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Most people think of themselves as “good,” but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad”—especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum... |
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the gameIt's true that Maria Konnikova... |
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Self-Injury: Your Questions Answered
Romeo Vitelli - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides an approachable introduction to the topic of self-injury, especially as it relates to teens and young adults. The information, guidance, and resources it offers make it a valuable tool for anyone whose life has been impacted by self-injury. * Makes the subject accessible... |
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