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Saint Augustine's Memory
Augustine, of Hippo Saint - Viking Format: Hardcover
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A second volume by the translator for Saint Augustine's Childhood follows the writer's meditative reflections on his life before and after baptism, during which he considers the role of memory in the shaping of identity and one's relationship with God. 15,000 first printing. |
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The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper
Ian Robertson - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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From one of the worlds most respected neuroscientists, an eye-opening study of why we react to pressure in the way we do and how to be energized rather than defeated by stress.. Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upsets--like failing an unimportant exam or tackling... |
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Ain't I a Diva: Beyonc and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy
Kevin Allred - The Feminist Press at CUNY Format: Paperback
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A pedagogical primer on integrating Black feminist thought, critical race studies, and America's most beloved pop star. "Proving himself a worthy member of the BeyHive, Kevin Allred takes us on a journey through Beyonc's greatest hits and expansive career - peeling back their... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown Format: Hardcover
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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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Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
STEPHEN HINSHAW - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."A deeply... |
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The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics
Kenan Malik - Melville House; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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The story of the global search for moral truthsIn this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homers Greece to Maos China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown - Random House Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Bren 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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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Simon Critchley - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in.We might think we are through with the past,... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
Dan Ariely - Ted Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation - showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost... |
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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
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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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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
David Wood - Little, Brown Spark Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of Americas 21st century wars.Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood... |
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What's Your Creative Type?: Harness the Power of Your Artistic Personality
Meta Wagner - Seal Format: Print book
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The greatest creators in human history--from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z--don't just have talent--they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus... |
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne - Penguin Books Format: Hardcover
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A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Todays inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means.... |
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Mental Health and Mental Disorders
Len Sperry - Greenwood Format: Print book
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Serving as an indispensable resource for students and general-interest readers alike, this three-volume work provides a comprehensive view of mental health that covers both mental well-being and mental illness.* Provides exhaustive content that affords readers a holistic understanding... |
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Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
WENDY JONES - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence -- and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection. Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read... |
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Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Suzanne O'Sullivan - Other Press Format: Print book
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A neurologist's insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders, told through individual case histories It's happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when a certain someone walks by. But few of us realize... |
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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
Nancy Colier - Sounds True Format: Paperback
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Effective mindfulness practices for transforming your relationship with technology and reconnecting with your real life Our reliance on technology is rapidly changing how each of us experiences life. We're facing new issues and difficulties, we're encountering new emotional triggers,... |
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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Scott Sonenshein - HarperBusiness Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal... |
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Professor at Large: The Cornell Years
John Cleese - Cornell University Press Format: Hardcover
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And now for something completely different. Professor at Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of ivy league professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty years as professor-at-large has led to many talks, essays, and lectures on campus. This... |
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The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Daniel M Wegner - Viking, 2016. Format: Print book
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From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds - including your own. Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club." It's easy... |
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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
Carrie Jenkins - Basic Books Format: Print book
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social... |
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company Format: Book
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While it seems that news about the opioid epidemic has been running non-stop for the past several years, the deluge of reports can make it difficult to remember exactly where and how the trouble started. Beth Macy’s book Dopesick takes the reader all the way back to 1996,... |
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You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements
David McCullough Jr. - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Format: Print book
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David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech, shares... |
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Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
Chade-Meng Tan - HarperOne Format: Hardcover
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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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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tao Lin - Vintage Format: Paperback
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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first centurys most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original. While isolating himself to work... |
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
William Barrett - Anchor Books/Doubleday Format: Paperback
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before... |
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Helping Teens Who Cut, Revised Edition: Using DBT Skills to End Self-Injury
Michael R Hollander - Guilford Format: Print book
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Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for the facts about the growing problem of teen self-injury--and what they can do to make it stop. Michael Hollander is a leading expert on the most effective treatment approach for cutting, dialectical behavior... |
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History of political philosophy
Leo Strauss - Univ. of Chicago Press Format: Paperback
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This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly... |
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Dr. Ronald Epstein M.D. - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.. As a third-year Harvard Medical... |
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How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Randy J Paterson - New Harbinger Publications Format: Print book
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In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which - if followed - are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!There are stacks upon... |
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On Truth
Simon Blackburn - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of linguistic or cultural vantage point?In... |
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I Wish He Had Come with Instructions: The Woman's Guide to a Man's Brain
Mike Bechtle - Revell Format: Print book
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What Is He Really Thinking? When a woman begins a relationship with a man, she may think she's found her knight in shining armor. As the relationship continues, that armor can begin to feel like a barricade she just can't get past it. What's he hiding in there, anyway?Relationship... |
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD - New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition Format: Print book
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took... |
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Democracy: A Life
Paul Cartledge - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker--from Plato and Aristotle onwards--were ambivalent or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship... |
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
HECTOR GARCIA - Penguin Books Format: Hardcover
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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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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani - Currency Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls - Crown Format: Hardcover
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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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STEP PARENTING: 50 One-Minute DOs and DON'Ts for Stepdads and Stepmoms
Randall Hicks - WordSlinger Press Format: Print book
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A great step parenting and blended families resource for both the stepparent and the existing parent. Tired of reading a book that is hundreds of pages in length, then thinking they could have boiled down the "important parts" and saved you a lot of time? Here's a book that... |
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The Miracle Mindset: Show Up. Step Up. You Are Stronger Than You Think.
J J Virgin - North Star Way Format: Print book
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Celebrity health expert and four-time New York Times bestselling author, JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event taught her to tap into an indomitable mindset, trust her instincts, and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son's life ... and her own. She'll share the lessons... |
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The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
Harold Schechter - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Format: Hardcover
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2015 Edgar Award Nominee Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: "SKYSCRAPER SLAYER," "BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB" read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly... |
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Leviathan: Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
Thomas Hobbes - Yale University Press Format: Paperback
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Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, Leviathan is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes's central argument - that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own fears and desires, and that... |
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I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy
CRIS BEAM - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking,... |
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp Format: Print book
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The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change,... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. - Random House Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality
Hector Macdonald - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs.True or false? It's rarely that simple.There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates... |
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Jessica Hagy - Workman Publishing Company Format: Print book
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It's the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life's challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information... |
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Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Sam Goldstein - Springer Format: Hardcover
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This handbook synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the diagnostic structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - 5th Edition (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association. It offers a comprehensive overview of DSM-5... |
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
Sharon Begley - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior - using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion.Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something... |
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Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Irvin D. Yalom - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a lapidary memoirIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. He opens his story with a nightmare:... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin - Farrar Format: Print book
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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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The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
LLOYD SEDERER - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking examination of addiction from the Chief Medical Officer for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Naomi Judd - Center St Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world... |
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If Your Adolescent Has ADHD: An Essential Resource for Parents
Thomas J Power - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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Adolescents (ages 12-20) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at risk for academic problems, strained relationships, peer rejection and unsafe behavior -- and parents are often at a loss for how to handle these challenges. If Your Adolescent Has ADHD: An Essential... |
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The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
W Thomas Boyce - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health--a book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary... |
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Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Alison Stewart - Chicago Review Format: Print book
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Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels - Amistad Format: Print book
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As... |
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When strangers meet
Kio Stark - TED Books Format: Print book
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Discover the unexpected pleasures and exciting possibilities of talking to people you don't know - how these beautiful interruptions can change you, and the world we share.When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don't... |
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
Gish Jen - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business. Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another.... |
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Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Melanie Notkin - Pgw Format: Hardcover
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More American women are childless than ever before - nearly half those of childbearing age don't have children. While our society often assumes these women are "childfree by choice," that's not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children,... |
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The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
Jordan Shapiro - Little, Brown Spark Format: Hardcover
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A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading."... |
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy
David C Spencer - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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Navigating Life with Epilepsy aims to provide clear and reliable information about epilepsy, including "what" (definition) , "how" (pathophysiology) , "who" (epidemiology) , and "why" (etiology) . The volume guides the reader through current... |
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The Road to Calm Workbook: Life-Changing Tools to Stop Runaway Emotions
Carolyn Daitch - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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A protocol of easy-to-use tools that can be applied when readers experience difficult-to-manage emotions. Emotional flooding -- being overwhelmed by feelings -- happens in response to stress, anxiety, and life's challenges. In this client-orientated accompaniment to Affect Regulation... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about... |
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics
Ruwen Ogien - Columbia University Press Format: Hardcover
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right... |
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Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life: Decode Your Emotional DNA-and Thrive
Margaret Moore MBA - William Morrow Format: Print book
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From a top wellness coach and a Harvard Medical School professor, comes this revolutionary book that will show you how to identify and decode your nine most basic emotional needs - and coach yourself to a calmer, healthier, and happier life.The more you thrive, the better your brain functions,... |
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The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism
Kristin Dombek - FSG Originals Format: Print book
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They're among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to live in a radiance beyond what we are capable of. But narcissists are empty. No one knows exactly what everyone else is full of--some kind... |
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone - The Experiment Format: Paperback
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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician
Michael Ellis - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact... |
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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
Ariel Burger - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protg and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher."Witness... |
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN - Algonquin Books Format: Hardcover
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The gripping voices of the inhabitants of Blackwell's Island make this history come alive. Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years,... |
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Wages of Rebellion
Chris Hedges - Nation Books Format: Hardcover
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Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society... |
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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
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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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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duosfrom John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve WozniakJoshua Wolf Shenk identifies... |
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The Hope Circuit: A Psychologists Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
Martin E P Seligman - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite - Plume Format: Hardcover
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**An International Bestseller**"Like Big Little Lies, A Beautiful Terrible Thing is a startling reminder that fairy tales aren't real. A master class in suspenseful storytelling, Jen Waite recounts the lies, betrayals, and infidelity she endured with unrestrained... |
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
THOMAS W MALONE - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent... |
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the MonthIndiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel... |
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The Philosophy Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide
Anthony Graybosch - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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The Philosophy Student Writer's Manual and Reader's Guide, Fourth Edition, is a set of instructions and exercises that sequentially develop citizenship, academic, and professional skills while providing students with knowledge about a wide range of philosophical concepts, phenomena,... |
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Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Sheila M Reindl - Harvard University Press Format: Paperback
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Hearing about the destructive compulsion of bulimia nervosa, outsiders may wonder, "How could you ever start?" Those suffering from the eating disorder ask themselves in despair, "How can I ever stop?" How do you break the cycle of bingeing, vomiting, laxative abuse,... |
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Your Brain on Plants: The Authoritative Guide to Herbs for Mood and Mind
Nicolette Perry - The Experiment Format: Paperback
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By expert authors in both medicinal herbs and neuroscience - an unprecedented, highly informative, plant-by-plant guide to improving mind, mood, and memoryThe importance of mental and physical health, separately and together, is rising in the consciousness of Western and alternative medicine,... |
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Finding the True Self
Jinje - Lotus Lantern Books, Inc.; First edition Format: Print book
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Through Dharma talks, QA, essays on practice, and conversations with leading scholars, Master Jinje speaks with urgency and compassion about the central work of his life finding ones true self. In a style at once encouraging and uncompromising, he shares his stories and stories of past... |
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The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
Matthew Pollard - Amacom Format: Paperback
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An introvert? Great at sales? YES. Sales is a skill anyone can learn and master--and introverts are especially good at it once they learn how to leverage their natural strengths. Introverts aren't comfortable with traditional tactics like aggressively pushing a product or talking over... |
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Meghan Cox Gurdon - Harper Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Eric Berkowitz - Counterpoint LLC Format: Hardcover
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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research... |
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
Hala Alyan - Mariner Books Format: Paperback
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In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and upheaval. For Hala Alyan, this is a year in which the past - memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith - winds itself... |
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The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
ESTHER PEREL - HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio Format: Audiobook
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[*Read by the author - Esther Perel] Iconic couples' therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart -- what we expect,... |
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Inner engineering : a Yogi's guide to joy
Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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Thought leader, visionary, philanthropist, mystic, and yogi Sadhguru presents Western readers with time-tested technologies to achieve absolute well-being. The founder of the Isha Foundation, an all-volunteer organization involved in large-scale humanitarian, educational, and environmental... |
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The Politics of Autism
Lynn W Adams - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge. Is there really more autism? How has the count expanded by diagnosing autism over other conditions? Have scientific methodsin... |
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano - Simon & Schuster 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 and preening... |
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Love Is All You Need: The Art and Science of Non-Training Your Dog
Jennifer Arnold - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Dog's Eyes - the inspiration for the PBS documentary - a paradigm-shifting approach to living with and loving our dogsThere are few people who understand dogs better than Jennifer Arnold. Twenty-five years after she founded... |
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
John A Bargh - Touchstone Format: Hardcover
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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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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Edith Hall - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesAristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more... |
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Joseph T Hallinan - Crown Publishers Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings' astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception - of ourselves and the world around us - is much... |
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Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism
Sebastian Rödl - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Self-Consciousness and Objectivity undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. Sebastian Rodl revives the thought -- as ancient as philosophy but largely... |
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI - Doubleday Format: Hardcover
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A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient... |
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Understanding Tourette Syndrome: A guide to symptoms, management and treatment
Carlotta Zanaboni Dina - Routledge Format: Paperback
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Understanding Tourette Syndrome sets out concise, evidence-based guidelines on this developmental disorder by combining an exploration of signs, diagnosis and treatment with a broader psychosocial approach. Zanaboni and Mauro outline the various symptoms of the disease, including tics,... |
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Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life
Dr. Dr. Bill Thomas - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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From one of the most original and innovative thinkers in medicine, this stirring and splendid book Wall Street Journal offers groundbreaking insight to the postwar generation on facing their second coming of age, a developmental opportunity to reshape their lives and our society. Dr. Thomas... |
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