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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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Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World
MIKE BROOKS - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Parents often worry about raising kids in a tech-saturated world - the threats of cyberbullying, video game violence, pornography, and sexting may seem inescapable. And while these dangers exist, there is a much more common and subtle way that technology can cause harm: by eroding our attention... |
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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Kieran Setiya - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future?... |
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One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality
Jeremy Waldron - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a subtle and multifaceted... |
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Talking with Your Child about Their Autism Diagnosis: A Guide for Parents
Raelene Dundon - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Telling your child about their autism diagnosis can be daunting. Will they be better off for knowing? What's the right way to tell them? Should you inform anyone else too? As a mother of two children on the spectrum, with over ten years' experience as a psychologist specialising... |
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