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Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby

Kevin Nugent - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

From an international expert on infant-parent communication Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic Through intimate access to babies and their families Dr Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications...
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament...
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Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

Eric Klinenberg - Penguin Press HC, The; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom - the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone - that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal changeIn 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more...
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Ron Powers - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam...
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Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell

Alain Stephen - Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Format: Print book

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a dream? These ideas are some of the central...
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The Wonder of Girls : Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters

Michael Gurian - Atria
Format: Hardcover

Michael Gurian, whose national bestseller The Wonder of Boys presented a radical and enlightening view of parenting sons, now offers a groundbreaking approach to raising daughters. In The Wonder of Girls, Gurian, himself the father of two girls, provides crucial information for fully understanding...
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The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World

Sophia Dembling - Perigee Trade
Format: Book

For anyone who loved Susan Cains Quiet, comes this practical manifesto sharing the joys of introversionThis clever and pithy book challenges introverts to take ownership of their personalities...with quiet strength. Sophia Dembling asserts that the introverts lifestyle is not wrong or lacking,...
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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal - Avery; Second edition
Format: Hardcover

The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist...
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Love and Logic Magic When Kids Leave You Speechless

Jim Fay - Love and Logic Press
Format: Book

For years, parents have asked Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay for specific words they can use when kids leave them speechless. The book is finally here! Twenty-three chapters include parent-child dialogues and plenty of information about how to handle the most frustrating things kids say.
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The Girls of August

Anne Rivers Siddons - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation,...
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Promise Land: My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“A funny yet surprisingly nuanced look at the legends and ideas of the self-help industry” (People, 3.5 stars), Promise Land explores the American devotion to self-improvement—even as the author attempts some deeply personal improvements of her own.Raised by a child psychologist...
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All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness

Sheila Hamilton - Seal Press (CA)
Format: Hardcover

"A boldly beautiful page-turner about loving and losing someone with mental illness. I'll be recommending this absorbing memoir for years to come." - Cheryl Strayed, best-selling author of WildEven as a reporter, Sheila Hamilton missed the signs as her husband David's...
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My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young

Stephanie Dolgoff - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When men stop making lecherous catcalls and Spanx get comfortable in your lingerie drawer, when marketers target you for Activia instead of $200 premium denim, when you have to start wearing makeup to get that "Im not wearing any makeup" glow and are "maamed" outside...
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Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce

Lisa Rene Reynolds M.D. - AMACOM
Format: Book

Divorce can have a devastating effect on children. Yet for families who carefully consider and manage the intricacies associated with this difficult and upsetting time, the family, as seen from the child's perspective, can remain strong, healthy, and as loving and supportive as it ever...
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It's Hard Not to Hate You: A Memoir

Valerie Frankel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

3.5 out of 4 Stars! "On a touching and hilarious journey, Frankel learns that overt positivity isn't the answer. Instead, owning her toxic emotions actually makes her life better. In a breezy 242 pages, she turns The Secret on its head."--Rennie Dyball, PEOPLE magazine"A...
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The Art of War

Sunzi - Arcturus
Format: Print book

Sun Tzu's classic on military strategy and tactics was written in the 5th century BC, and comes to life for the 21st century in this stunning slip-cased edition. The Art of War case and hardcover book are both high-quality cloth over board, with embossed, gold-foil lettering, creating...
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Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog

Cesar Millan - Harmony; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The training book you've been waiting for from the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer Your dog just doesn't seem to listen. You've been through obedience training, but he still can't seem to master the most basic commands. And nothing...
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Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between

Jason Boog - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children's book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.Every parent wants...
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A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome

John T. Walkup - iUniverse.com
Format: Hardcover

Providing authoritative and up-to-date medical and scientific information about Tourette syndrome, A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome speaks to patients, families, care providers, academic institutions, and medical centers in easy-to-understand language about this neurodevelopmental...
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Breaking Out of Bedlam: A Novel

Leslie Larson - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home. So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an eighty-two-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes,...
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The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage

Martha Stout - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

On September 11, 2001, the "Fear Switch" in our brains got flicked. How do we turn it off and reclaim our lives?
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The Activity Kit for Babies and Toddlers at Risk: How to Use Everyday Routines to Build Social and Communication Skills

Deborah Fein PhD - Guilford Publications
Format: Paperback

Parents have the power to help babies and toddlers at risk for developmental delays make important strides--but many are confused and intimidated as to how. In this easy-to-navigate guide, leading experts present more than 100 games and activities designed to strengthen vital communication...
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Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce

Peter Clothier - Parami Press, LLC; First edition
Format: Book

Persist In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce is a collection of essays spanning thirty years of engagement with the culture of our times. Peter Clothier is a long-time student of the dharma and a meditation practitioner. In this context he examines the qualities...
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Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog

Cesar Millan - Three Rivers Press
Format: Book

The training book you've been waiting for from the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer Your dog just doesn't seem to listen. You've been through obedience training, but he still can't seem to master the most basic commands. And nothing...
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Stronger Than BPD: The Girl's Guide to Taking Control of Intense Emotions, Drama, and Chaos Using DBT

Debbie Corso B.Sc. - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Print book

You are strong! No matter what anyone says, you can heal the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) . In this unique guide, influential BPD advocate and blogger Debbie Corso offers an easy-to-use primer on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) , as well as powerful peer-to-peer...
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Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World

Steven Quartz - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover

If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their iconic allure, look no further-in Cool, Steven Quartz and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends and enduring...
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It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind

David A Rosenbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The saying "It's a jungle out there" refers to a competitive environment in which you'd better hone your skills if you hope to survive. And you'd better do what you can to keep a roof over your head, food in your belly, a leaf on your loins, and a mate who'll help...
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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Richard E Nisbett - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book

"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." -Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book ReviewScientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping...
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Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

Dr. Justin A. Frank M.D. - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

Even though he’s three years into his term as President, many Americans feel like they don’t know the “real” Barack Obama. From the idealistic campaigner who seemed to share our dreams, and who promised to fulfill our lofty expectations, to pragmatic politician who has repeatedly...
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When Rabbit Howls

Truddi Chase
Format: Book

When Truddi Chase began therapy she was already building a successful career, a marriage, and a family. But what she was seeking most were explanations for her extreme anxiety, mood swings, and periodic blackouts. What finally emerged from the four-year sessions was terrifying: Truddi Chases...
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Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

Dacher Keltner - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Hardcover

A new examination of the surprising origins of human goodness. In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short" -- we are in fact born to be good. He investigates an old mystery of human evolution:...
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Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World

Christine Fonseca - Prufrock Press
Format: Paperback

Being an introverted child is difficult, especially in an ever-increasingly noisy world. Often viewed as aloof, unmotivated or conceited, introverted children are deeply misunderstood by parents, educators and even their peers. That's where "Quiet Kids: Helping Your Introverted...
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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Robert Whitaker - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government...
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The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases

Gigi Vorgan - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

“Stories of human behavior at its most extreme….With humor, compassion, empathy, and insight, Small searches for and finds the humanity that lies hidden under even the most bizarre symptoms.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New MindA psychiatrist’s...
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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

Debra Gwartney - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family....
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Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

Steve Harvey - Amistad; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"More relationship advice in this much anticipated follow-up to the #1 New York Times Bestseller and international sensation, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man"--
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Naomi Oreskes - Bloomsbury Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same...
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Antonio Damasio - Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created?  Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing...
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Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris

Steven Levingston - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

A delicious account of a murder most gallic - think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon - whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling - and so wonderfully French - story of a gruesome...
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The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles

Gregory Bassham - Wiley
Format: Paperback

A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things...
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Politics

Aristotle - Oxford University Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the way societies are run--from households...
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The Origin of Others

TONI MORRISON - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct...
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Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II

Michael Burleigh - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Magnificent. . . . Seldom has a study of the past combined such erudition with such exuberance." —The Guardian "No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book; and indeed nor should anyone who cares about how our world...
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

Mark Epstein - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein presents a how-to guide rooted in two traditions, Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better lifeOur ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better,...
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Peter Singer - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover

In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those...
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

Carl Hart - Harper
Format: Hardcover

High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives. Young Carl didn't see the value...
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Stuck: Why We Can't

Anneli S Rufus - Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

"The brilliant mind behind Party of One examines the striking social trend: people are stuck and they want to change, but..." (San Francisco Chronicle) In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect of our culture: Many of us are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship,...
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite...
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

ROSS W GREENE - Scribner
Format: Paperback

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.Parents have an important task: figure out who their...
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Story of Philosophy

Bryan Magee - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover

An accessible interpretation of the subject of philosophy from a world-renowned philosopher and author offers readers a fundamental introduction to the history of ideas and human thought from around the world. 12,500 first printing.
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Last Victim, The

Jason Moss - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

DEAR MR. MANSON.... It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy.. DEAR MR. DAHMER.... Posing as their...
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel - Delacorte Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents lives endlessly challenging Noits just their developing...
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin - Farrar
Format: Print book

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly...
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If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents

B. Timothy Walsh - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

This is an authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. It is designed for parents of teens who have recently been diagnosed with an eating disorder, or who are at risk of developing one, and for other adults, such as teachers and guidance...
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

John Elder Robison - Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ldquoAs sweet and funny and sad and true and heartfelt a memoir as one could findrdquo mdashfrom the foreword by Augusten Burroughs Ever since he was young John Robison longed to connect with other people but by the time he was a teenager his odd habitsmdashan...
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The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer's Family

Robert B. Santulli MD - Dartmouth
Format: Hardcover

Alzheimer's disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer's Association, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be close to 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking, personality, and functioning....
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You Need Help!: A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling

Mark S. Komrad - Hazelden
Format: Print book

Just about everyone knows a relative, friend, or coworker who is exhibiting signs of emotional or behavioral turmoil. Yet figuring out how to reach out to that person can feel insurmountable. We know it is the right thing to do, yet many of us hesitate to take action out of fear of conflict,...
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If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia: An Essential Resource for Parents

Raquel E. Gur - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Schizophrenia is a disease that afflicts some 2.2 million persons of all ages. It has a wide-ranging impact on the lives of not just the people who have it, but also the people who love them. In an era of de-institutionalization and managed care, parents and other adults, such as teachers...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Hailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” and “America’s bestselling book on women’s health,” the comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual...
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Seiobo There Below

L?szl? Krasznahorkai - New Directions
Format: Book

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeThe latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo ― a Japanese goddess ― has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit...
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Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families

Francis Mark Mondimore - Johns Hopkins University Press; third edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimores pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its third edition, Bipolar Disorder has been thoroughly updated with new information about the causes of the disorder, tools...
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Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success

Chris Matthews - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Chris Matthews is like no other TV interviewer. Life’s a Campaign is like no other book on success. Famous for demanding the truth from his Hardball guests, Chris Matthews now reveals what the people running this country rarely confess: the secrets of how they got to the top. Here...
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Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind

Daniel Tammet - Free Press
Format: Print book

Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant...
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

Tali Sharot - Pantheon
Format: Print book

From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives. Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally...
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The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer

Roseanne Montillo - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city - a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872 - in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White...
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food

Judy Collins - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book

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 and her life....
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself

Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,...
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

Carolyn Purnell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem...
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

James W. Pennebaker - Bloomsbury Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, weve zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing...
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The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are

Matthew J Hertenstein - Basic Books
Format: Print book

Every day we make predictions based on limited information, in business and at home. Will this company's stock performance continue? Will the job candidate I just interviewed be a good employee? What kind of adult will my child grow up to be? We tend to dismiss our predictive minds...
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Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted

Celeste Jones - HarperElement
Format: Paperback

The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.From...
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Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change

Michelle Gielan - Benbella Books
Format: Hardcover

We are all broadcasters. And the messages we choose to broadcast predict our success.All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don't say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new business. Managers broadcast to their teams...
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Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

Iyanla Vanzant - SmileyBooks
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned - from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage...
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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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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover

"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--
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Letting Go

Karen Levin Coburn - Harper
Format: Print book

For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years - from the senior year in high school through college graduation....
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Imagine: How Creativity Works

Jonah Lehrer - Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

This book was pulled from shelves when it came to light that the author fabricated many parts. ISBN is 9780547386072.,
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Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

Julian Young - Cambridge University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Ranging across the events of Nietzsche's life, Julian Young combines biography with a detailed description of his philosophy. The book will delight the general reader who knows little about Nietzsche's ideas. The specialist will learn where Young stands in relation to the voluminous...
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On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

Alan Ryan - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century. Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy...
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The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth About the Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

Gretchen Rubin - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. During her multibook investigation into...
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The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book

In this superb work of literary true crime - a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense - a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?...
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Perfect Chaos: A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her

Linea Johnson - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Johnsons were a close and loving family living in the Seattle area - two parents, two incomes, two bright and accomplished daughters. They led busy lives filled with music lessons, college preparation, career demands, and laughter around the dinner table. Then the younger daughter,...
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

Thomas Cahill - Anchor
Format: Paperback

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining - and historically unassailable - journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.In...
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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order

Joan Wickersham - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st American edition
Format: Hardcover

When you kill yourself, you kill every memory everyone has of you. You’re saying “I’m gone and you can’t even be sure who it is that’s gone, because you never knew me.” Sixteen years ago, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father...
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In a Perfect World: A Novel

Laura Kasischke - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of The Life Before Her Eyes, tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who's just settled...
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A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

Patrick J. Kennedy - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

**A New York Times Bestseller**Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's...
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The Male Brain

Louann Brizendine M.D. - Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones,...
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

A. O. Scott - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost...
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Hurry Down Sunshine

Michael Greenberg - Other Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world...
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Kathryn Schulz - Ecco; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it." - Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetIn the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being...
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The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell

Rachel Herz - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if you cannot smell, does the rose lose its sweetness? The first and definitive book on the psychology of smell, The Scent of Desire traces the importance of smell in our lives, from nourishment to procreation to our relationships...
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

Moustafa Bayoumi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemyArab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed "problem" of American society, their lives no better understood than those of African...
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A Balanced Life: Nine Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One

Tom Smith - Hazelden
Format: Paperback

The ultimate goal of those with a mental disorder and the people who love them is balance: emotional, mental, spiritual, and behavioral. Yet, living with and responding to a mentally ill person often leads to the chaos of a relationship where the rules change, the dynamics are volatile,...
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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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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Daniel J. Levitin - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more - and faster...
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A Fierce Discontent : The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

Michael E McGerr - Free Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping new history of one of America's most, exciting eras - a time of unprecedented wealth, wrenching social conflict, and titanic political battles.
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A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome

M.d John T. Walkup - iUniverse
Format: Hardcover

Providing authoritative and up-to-date medical and scientific information about Tourette syndrome, A Family's Guide to Tourette Syndrome speaks to patients, families, care providers, academic institutions, and medical centers in easy-to-understand language about this neurodevelopmental...
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Press
Format: Book

A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence,...
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Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

Martha C. Nussbaum - Belknap Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of social justice, Martha...
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Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids: The One Brain Book You Need to Help Your Child Grow Brighter, Healthier, and Happier

Dr. David Walsh Ph.D. - Atria Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest "right" way to nurture their kids' developing brains and behavior. And every day there's a new technology that demands your child's attention, a new game or toy that purports to make your...
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When a Family Member Has OCD: Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Skills to Help Families Affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Jon Hershfield MFT - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Print book

When someone has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can affect the entire family. This book is an essential guide to help family members cope with their loved one's compulsive behaviors, obsessions, and constant need for reassurance. If your loved one has OCD, you may be unsure of how to express...
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho

Harold Schechter - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs...From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive...
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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

Charles Barber - Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Book

Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than...
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Bandy X Lee - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.This is not normal.Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly...
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Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

Jerold J. Kreisman M.D. - Wiley
Format: Paperback

A source of hope, expert advice, and guidance for people with borderline personality disorder and those who love them Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in self-destructive behaviors such as drug...
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The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior

Jordan W Smoller - William Morrow
Format: Paperback

In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind's most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be "normal?" In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy,...
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Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change

John Lewis - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Although it has been decades since the historic social upheavals of the 1960s, Americans continue to look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. With an engaged electorate once again confronting questions of social inequality, there's no better time...
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness

Liza Long - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover

Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother...
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

David J Morris - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD
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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

David A Kessler - Rodale
Format: Hardcover

Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food - when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating - even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no,"...
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman - Simon & Schuster; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape.The Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism is as mysterious as it is intriguing to outsiders. In this arresting...
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

HECTOR GARCIA - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." - Japanese proverb According...
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Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe

JESS SHATKIN - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, research-based guide that sheds new light on why young people make dangerous choices--and offers solutions that workTexting while driving. Binge-drinking. Bullying. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about...
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Helping Children with Autism Spectrum Conditions Through Everyday Transitions: Small Changes - Big Challenges

John Smith - Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Facing any type of change can cause confusion and anxiety for individuals with autism spectrum disorders. This book looks at the small transitions in everyday life that can be a big deal for a child with autism and offers simple and effective strategies to make change less of a daily challenge....
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Josiah Ober - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses...
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It's a Boy!: Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

Michael Thompson - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain, It's a Boy! is the first major parenting book to chart every stage of a boy's life. This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide-written by psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a leading international expert on boys'...
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

Marilynne Robinson - Yale University Press; Second printing edition
Format: Hardcover

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges...
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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy - Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Format: Paperback

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014 All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly dismayed at how today's media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping...
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Suttree

Cormac Mccarthy - Peter Smith
Format: Paperback

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken....
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

Eric Kandel - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More

Barry Glassner - Basic Books; Revised Edition edition
Format: Paperback

In the age of 9/11, the Iraq War, financial collapse, and Amber Alerts, our society is defined by fear. So it’s not surprising that three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. But are we living in exceptionally dangerous times?...
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

Slavoj ZÌ?izÌ?ek - Picador
Format: Paperback

Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj iek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj iek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence....
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Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals

Phil Christie - Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

This straightforward guide offers a complete overview of Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) and gives practical advice for overcoming the difficulties it poses in a wide range of contexts from diagnosis through to adulthood. Starting with an exploration into the background of PDA that...
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The Revolution: A Manifesto

Ron Paul - Grand Central
Format: Print book

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To. The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing. The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution...
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American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

Carl Rollyson - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath--the first to draw from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archiveThe life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of myth. Educated at Smith, she had an epically conflict-filled relationship with her mother,...
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with...
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The Soloist

Steve Lopez - Berkley
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling, "unforgettable tale of hope, heart and humanity" (People) The true story of journalist Steve Lopez's discovery of Nathanial Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles'...
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Sharp: My Story of Madness, Cutting, and How I Reclaimed My Life

David Fitzpatrick - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

David Fitzpatricks Sharp is an extraordinary memoira fascinating, disturbing look into the mind of a man who, in his early 20s, began cutting himself due to a severe mental illness. A beautifully written treatment of a powerful subject, Fitzpatrickwhose symptoms included extreme depression...
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The Autism Mom's Survival Guide

Susan Senator - Trumpeter
Format: Paperback

"Given the daily challenges of raising a child with autism, it's easy for parents to lose themselves and for their overall quality of life to plummet. Susan Senator interweaves the voices of autism parents, researchers, and professionals to offer guidance and encouragement on how to find...
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Sarah Lewis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience: many of our most iconic, creative endeavors—from Nobel Prize–winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. The gift...
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Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night's Sleep

Colleen E. Carney PhD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general...
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Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within

Chade-Meng Tan - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerJoy is the root of happiness.Joy is a sustainable state that fuels our creativity and inspiration for innovation. It strengthens our ability to attract friends and to get along with people. Learning to cultivate joy is the fundamental secret...
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Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Enrico Gnaulati PhD - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis....
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

Damion Searls - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories...
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America the Philosophical

Carlin Romano - Knopf
Format: Book

A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name....
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The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant - Simon and Schuster
Format: Paperback

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey - The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...
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Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon

Barbara Cassin - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein German, pravda Russian, saudade...
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