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The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology
Susan Hallam - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited... |
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Copycats and Contrarians: Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't
Michelle Baddeley - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same... |
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Sharon Begley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior - using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion.Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something... |
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The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love
Andy Merrifield - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate attack on the tyranny of expertsModern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love.In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres... |
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Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
Hector Macdonald - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs.True or false? It's rarely that simple.There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates... |
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I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy
CRIS BEAM - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking,... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body
Alexandra Jamieson - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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A holistic health counselor and co-star of award-winning documentary Super Size Me explores women's cravings - for food, sleep, sex, movement, companionship, inspiration - and teaches them to listen to their bodies for a healthier, fuller life.Transformational health expert Alexandra... |
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
THOMAS W MALONE - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent... |
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
Martha Craven Nussbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel... |
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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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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
Nancy Colier - Sounds True
Format: Paperback
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Effective mindfulness practices for transforming your relationship with technology and reconnecting with your real life Our reliance on technology is rapidly changing how each of us experiences life. We're facing new issues and difficulties, we're encountering new emotional triggers,... |
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Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced... |
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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. We all know how identities -- notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion -- are at the root... |
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's... |
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive. Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years,... |
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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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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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American Philosophy: A Love Story
John J Kaag - Farrar
Format: Print book
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The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard... |
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
Frank Tallis - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Writer and subject were rarely better matched. This is a brilliant, compelling book."--Ian McEwanIn The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist... |
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir
Mark Lukach - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco.... |
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The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking
Olivia Fox Cabane - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their brain to have more eureka insights.The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic,... |
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
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Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life
Laura James - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly,... |
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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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Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
Hannah Arendt - Schocken
Format: Hardcover
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Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with... |
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
John J Kaag - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys -- one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years... |
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Effective Interventions for Social-Emotional Learning
Frank M Gresham - The Guilford Press
Format: Paperback
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This book reviews evidence-based, multi-tiered practices for promoting social-emotional learning (SEL) with typically developing students as well as those with special needs. Leading authority Frank M. Gresham, codeveloper of the Social Skills Improvement System--Rating Scales, describes... |
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Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction
COMEL WEST - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise... |
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The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children
JEAN KAZEZ - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Becoming parents draws us into philosophical quandaries before our children have even been born. Why do most of us want to have children? Should we make new people, despite life's travails and our crowded world? Is adoptive parenthood just the same as biological parenthood? Once children... |
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
JORDAN PETERSON - Random House Canada
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge... |
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Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Stephanie Rosenbloom - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling soloIn our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting... |
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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries... |
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Ann Hulbert - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking... |
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Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression
Jessica Friedmann - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essaysThings That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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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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The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
ESTHER PEREL - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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[*Read by the author - Esther Perel] Iconic couples' therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart -- what we expect,... |
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Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
Mark Stein - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that... |
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Make It Now!: Creative Inspiration and the Art of Getting Things Done
Anthony Burrill - Virgin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Graphic artist Anthony Burrill offers a life-affirming guide to new thinking, creative problem-solving and getting things done. Full of inspiration and ideas as well as his best-loved prints and new work, this book will get you thinking bigger and better and recharge your creativity. If you're... |
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years... |
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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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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient... |
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,... |
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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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The Plains
Gerald Murnane - Text Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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An affordable boutique hardcover for Murnane fans, featuring a new introduction by Ben Lerner.'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.' - Teju Cole'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.' - Paris Review'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable... |
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The Dysfunctional Library: Challenges and Solutions to Workplace Relationships
Jo Henry - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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Frankly, it's not something we like to talk about. There is an unfortunate stigma to acknowledging workplace dysfunction, let alone trying to grapple with the problem. But negative behaviors such as incivility, toxicity, deviant behavior, workplace politics, and team and leadership... |
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Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Irvin D. Yalom - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoirIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare:... |
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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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Understanding Weight Control: Mind and Body Strategies for Lifelong Success
Deborah C Saltman - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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This guide explains why we gain weight and what we can do to lose it. Without advocating any particular diet, it details a mind-body strategy for realistic lifetime weight management.* Written by a respected physician who has been through the journey of weight loss* Anticipates readers'... |
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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
David Wood - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of Americas 21st century wars.Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood... |
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the MonthIndiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel... |
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions... |
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,... |
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya L Chemaly - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about."... |
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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World
ERICA BENNER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli, the most misunderstood thinker of all time, fought to change his corrupt world.Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like... |
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Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein
John Launer - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first full and accessible account of one of the most significant and overlooked figures in the field of sexual psychology Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira... |
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The Paperclip Test: A Personality Quiz Like No Other
Mario Gmr - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An entertaining and enlightening personality test, using that humblest of objects - a bent paperclip - to pick the lock of your psyche What does your workspace say about you The best clues aren't in your desk or on your computer. Rather, they're those paperclips in your wastebasket - the ones... |
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The Hatred of Literature
William Marx - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries: philosophers, theologians,... |
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Freud: In His Time and Ours
Elisabeth Roudinesco - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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lisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century -- a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly... |
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
Lux Alptraum - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying -- why myths about womens deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy.... |
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Good sex : getting off without checking out
Jessica Graham - North Atlantic Books
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Jessica Graham demonstrates that a deep spiritual life and an extraordinary sex life are not mutually exclusive in this keenly personal and unflinchingly frank guide to finding mindfulness in sex without losing the fun and adventure. Not only a tool kit for creating a rich and deeply satisfying... |
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The Wisdom of Money
Pascal Bruckner - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Money is an evil that does good, and a good that does evil. It inspires hymns to the prosperity it enables, manifestos about the poor it leaves behind, and diatribes for its corrosion of morality. In The Wisdom of Money, one of the world's great essayists guides us through the rich... |
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The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir
PETER GAJDICS - Brown Paper Press
Format: Paperback
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Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled... |
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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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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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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
Lee Gutkind - Underland Pr
Format: Print book
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Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter... |
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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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The Art of Reading
DAMON YOUNG - Scribe US
Format: Hardcover
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'What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.' As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop... |
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Adam Benforado - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system--and affect us all Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced... |
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
Mary Gaitskill - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects... |
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Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
GREGORY SMITHSIMON - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about itWhen we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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The Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging, 3 Volume Set
Susan Krauss Whitbourne - Wiley Blackwell
Format: Print book
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This authoritative reference work contains more than 300 entries covering all aspects of the multi-disciplinary field of adult development and aging Brings together concise, accurate summaries of classic topics as well as the most recent thinking and research in new areas Covers a broad... |
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Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide
BRANDON WEBB - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb comes a simple yet powerful five-step guide to transforming your life by making your fears work for you instead of against you.Brandon Webb has run life-threatening missions in the world's worst trouble spots,... |
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The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
Patricia B McConnell - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.World-renowned... |
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." - People"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity... |
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The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitts The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret."A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally... |
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To shape a new world : essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
Tommie Shelby - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite... |
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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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Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Eden Collinsworth - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age.To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders... |
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John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy
Luke Mayville - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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Why American founding father John Adams feared the political power of the rich -- and how his ideas illuminate todays debates about inequality and its consequences. Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class... |
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I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche
Sue Prideaux - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts - the bermensch, the will to power, slave morality - have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what... |
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Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
Geoff Mulgan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" -- human and machine capabilities working together -- has the potential... |
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Abandon Me
Melissa Febos - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense... |
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