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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." - Adam Grant, New York Times...
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters

Charles Wheelan - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book

The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually...
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Dean Buonomano - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,...
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Moody bitches : the truth about the drugs you're taking, the sleep you're missing, the sex you're not having, and what's really making you crazy

Julie Holland - Penguin Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control: we have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stuffed...
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Handgun Buyer's Guide: A Complete Manual to Buying and Owning a Personal Firearm

Brad Fitzpatrick - Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.
Format: Print book

The one-stop-shop for prospective handgun buyers.The market for new handguns is expanding rapidly, and that's good news for consumers. Each year more and more new models break cover and there has never been a better time to be in the market for a new handgun, whether you're a recreational...
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The Movie Book

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

The Movie Book, the latest in DK's award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world.From classic 1930s film noir and Hollywood romance to international art-house and 21st-century sci-fi, The Movie Book brings the world's...
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The Book of Greens: A Cooks Compendium of 40 Varieties, from Arugula to Watercress, with More Than 175 Recipes [A Cookbook]

Jenn Louis - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of Portland, Oregons most acclaimed chefs comes an IACP award-winning encyclopedic reference to the world of greens, with more than 175 creative recipes for every meal of the day.. For any home cook who is stuck in a "three-green rut" - who wants to cook healthy, delicious,...
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Making Marriage Work: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Achieving Success

Louis H Primavera - Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Format: Print book

Staying happily married has become a difficult proposition in recent times. Although the institution is still firmly embedded in our culture, divorce rates have steadily climbed since the 1960s. While some marriages are truly divorce-worthy, many other broken marriages can be saved. Recent...
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,...
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