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Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged, and Focused--Without a Pill

Stanley I. Greenspan - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

This wise and informative guide applies Stanley Greenspan's much admired developmental approach to a very common disorder. In his distinctive and original view, ADHD is not a single problem, but rather a set of common symptoms that arise from several different sensory, motor, and self-regulation...
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety

ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been...
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The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

Aja Raden
Format: Hardcover

Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you were told? The Truth About Lies is buttressed by a winning mixture of history, psychology,...
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The Big Book of Personality Tests for Women: 100 Fun-to-Take, Easy-to-Score Quizzes That Reveal Your Hidden Potential in Life, Love, and Work

Robin Westen - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Spi edition
Format: Spiral-bound

In the bestselling tradition of The Big Book of IQ Tests and The Big Book of Personality Tests, this entertaining and enlightening collection of "write-in" quizzes is designed to help women of every age and interest assess their hidden potential in all areas of their busy lives....
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Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts

Susan Goldin-Meadow - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An eminent psychologist argues that gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we think We all know people who talk with their hands - but do they know what they're saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us, and express thoughts we may not even know we're...
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England

Sarah Wise - Counterpoint; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical...
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Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life

M.D. Frances Allen - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality Anyone living a full, rich life experiences...
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Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed

GUY P HARRISON - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

At a time when the news cycle turns on a tweet, journalism gets confused with opinion, and facts are treated as negotiable information, applying critical thinking skills to your social media consumption is more important than ever.Guy P. Harrison, an upbeat advocate of scientific literacy...
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