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Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

Madeline Levine PhD - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future - and how we can reverse course to ensure their...
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The One-Week Insomnia Cure: Learn to Solve Your Sleep Problems

Jason Ellis - Random House UK
Format: Paperback

With over a decade of pioneering research and clinical practice in sleep disorder management, the author of The One-Week Insomnia Cure provides a fast and long-lasting approach to identifying and managing insomnia and other sleep disorders. To maximize treatment success and prevent...
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Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain's Capacity for Healing

Sarah Peyton - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Skills for people to learn to be with themselves in the healthiest way possible.Have you ever noticed how cruel and self-sabotaging your critical inner voice can be? Have you been looking outside of yourself for friends and loved ones to reassure you of your worthiness and lovability? The latest...
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Capture: A Theory of the Mind

David A. M.D. Kessler - Harper Wave
Format: Print book

Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad...
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg - Avery
Format: Hardcover

A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States.When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming...
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

Walter Mischel - Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Print book

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior...
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Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends

Bruce Fisher - Impact Pub
Format: Print book

In print for thirty-five years, Rebuilding is the number one trusted resource on divorce recovery. Now, this classic self-help book is available in an updated fourth edition, featuring a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti.If you are going through a painful breakup or divorce, you may feel...
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Walking

Henry David Thoreau - Tilbury House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Thoreau in his iconic deathbed essay "Walking."Celebrates the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 1817.This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern...
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Lincoln's Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House

Elizabeth Mitchell - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild. When Lincoln sent troops...
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

Charles Fernyhough - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our headsAt the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"...
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