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Suddenly Single After 50: The Girlfriends' Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope, and Rebuilding Your Life

Barbara Ballinger - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, you're on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends' lives continue onward, seemingly unchanged. Being suddenly single...
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Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know

Daniel R DeNicola - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated...
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir

Ariel Leve - Harper
Format: Print book

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences...
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The Virus in the Age of Madness

Bernard-Henri Lévy - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback

World-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Lvy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the coronavirus pandemic - and what they tell us about ourselves. Lvy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend...
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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities

Bill Eddy - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

Some difficult people aren't just hard to deal with - they're dangerous. Do you know someone whose moods swing wildly? Do they act unreasonably suspicious or antagonistic? Do they blame others for their own problems? When a high-conflict person has one of five common personality disorders...
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The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

Scott Hartley - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

One of the nation's leading venture capitalists offers surprising revelations on who is going to be leading innovation in the years to comeScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social...
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies

Ann Hulbert - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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How We Change:

Ross Ellenhorn - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by encouraging us to understand and embrace our resistance to it.We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some...
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

Jesse Singal
Format: Hardcover

With their viral TED talks, bestselling books, and counter-intuitive remedies for complicated problems, psychologists and other social scientists have become the reigning thinkers of our time. Grit and "power posing" promised to help overcome entrenched inequalities in schools...
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The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir

PETER GAJDICS - Brown Paper Press
Format: Paperback

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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