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The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

Ron Friedman PhD - Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, and Freakonomics, comes a captivating and surprising journey through the science of workplace excellence.Why do successful companies reward failure What can casinos teach us about building a happy workplace How do you design an office that enhances...
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Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers

Betty Edwards - Touchstone; 1st Fireside ed edition
Format: Paperback

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists,...
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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

YASCHA MOUNK - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.Two core components of liberal democracy -- individual rights and the popular will -- are increasingly...
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

John A Bargh - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John...
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The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

The book that changed the consciousness of a country -- and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic -- these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name,"...
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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Oliver Burkeman - Faber & Faber; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it’s our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy....
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter

Peggy Orenstein - Harper; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty the rise of the girlie-girl she warns is not that innocent Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward telling them...
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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep

Marc Weissbluth M.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease - now in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition! In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country's leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving...
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019* *A People Magazine Book of the Week**An Apple Best Books Pick for April**An April IndieNext Pick**A Book of the Month...
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