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Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
Scott A. Small · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Who wouldn't want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast... |
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Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
Peter J. Frost · Harvard Business School Pr; First Edition
Format: First Edition
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Human interaction is never flawless. Even the best relationships produce tension and at times, unpleasant emotions. Since organizations are comprised of people, all organizations generate emotional pain as part of the process of doing business: producing new products on tight deadlines,... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 288
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... |
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Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Anthony Appiah · Harvard Univ. Press
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois'... |
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Tia Powell · Avery
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.
Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Brené 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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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian · Twelve
Pages: 168
Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.
Decades before the American Revolution,... |
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The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies.... |
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A thought-provoking examination of how we think and talk about beauty today - and the unexpected and often positive ways that beauty shapes our lives.
For decades, we've discussed our insecurities in the face of idealized, retouched, impossibly perfect images. We've worried primping... |
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