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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day

Ken Mogi - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

Introducing IKIGAI: find your passions and live with joyIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as "your reason to get up in the morning." Ikigai can be small moments: the morning air, a cup of coffee, a compliment. It can also be deep convictions: a fulfilling job,...
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Overcoming Opioid Addiction: The Authoritative Medical Guide for Patients, Families, Doctors, and Therapists

ADAM BISAGA - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

From a leading addiction expert, a desperately needed medical guide to understanding, treating, and finally defeating opioid use disorder Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, claiming more lives than the AIDs epidemic did at its peak. Opioid...
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The Emotional Life of the Toddler

Alicia F Lieberman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Now updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman's The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the seminal, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three. Hailed as "groundbreaking" by The Boston Globe after its initial publication,...
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The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online

Mary Aiken - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave. "A must-read for this moment in time." - Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics * One of the best books of the year - Nature Mary Aiken, the worlds leading expert in forensic...
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your BrainAnd How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose
Format: Hardcover

Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock...
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Perennial

Kelly Forsythe - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback

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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What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

Rachel Dempsey - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation’s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel...
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Humans and the Cosmos: Exploration and Mindfulness

Antony Black - Authorhouse
Format: Hardcover

What kind of a universe do we live in? Where do we fit into the galaxies? Does God explain it all? We live in a staggering cosmos which only we understand and appreciate. This book locates us in a cosmic story. We need to bring together science, the humanities, experience and self-awareness....
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters

Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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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