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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
Luc Ferry - Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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French superstar philosopher Luc Ferry encapsulates an enlightening treatise of pop-philosophy in a lively narrative of Western thoughtexplaining how the history of philosophy can teach us how to live better lives today. This blockbuster better living guide has already sold nearly a half... |
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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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To shape a new world : essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr
Tommie Shelby - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite... |
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromPlenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential... |
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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Gail Saltz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities," revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths. In The Power of Different, psychiatrist... |
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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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How to Listen to Your Dog: The Complete Guide to Communicating With Man's Best Friend
Carlotta Cooper - Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Sit. Stay. Heel. Does your dog disobey you sometimes? Do you understand why? Understanding each other s wants and needs is one of the best ways you and your pooch can establish a happy, life-long relationship. Instead of growing frustrated at your dog s seemingly bad behavior, try to recognize... |
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir
David Fajgenbaum - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath... |
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Why Trust Science?
Naomi Oreskes - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when... |
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Darkness Before Dawn: Redefining the Journey Through Depression
Various Authors - Sounds True; Reissue edition
Format: Print book
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There's no shortage of psychology self-help books on depression-but this collection, envisioned and edited by Sounds True founder Tami Simon, is not one of them. You won't be revisiting familiar therapies or antidepressant options. What you will find is a gathering of 19 exceptional... |
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Bipolar Disorder For Dummies
Candida Fink - John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Print book
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Understand the realities of bipolar disorder When one receives the diagnosis that they or a loved one has bipolar disorder, it can be a time of fear and worry. Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, 3rd Edition explains the brain chemistry behind the disease and covers the latest medications and therapies.... |
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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined... |
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
Sarah Wilson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that Ive ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah... |
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Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants
Peter D Kramer - Farrar
Format: Print book
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Do antidepressants work, or are they glorified dummy pills? How can we tell? In "Ordinarily Well, " the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked... |
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Tia Powell - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone... |
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5 Steps to Reducing Stress: Recognizing What Works
Genella Macintyre - Brown Books Pub Group
Format: Print book
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Five Steps to Reducing Stress provides an essential strategy built upon understanding stress, taking stock, managing your external environment and then your internal one, and taking action. Corporate trainer and psychology expert Genella Macintyre pushes past the usual surface-level explanations... |
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment,... |
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Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
Michael P. Lynch - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Winner * National Council of Teachers of English - George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageThe "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) returns with a clear-eyed and timely critique of our cultures narcissistic... |
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The Little Spark - 30 Ways to Ignite Your Creativity
Carrie Bloomston - C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Format: Paperback
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You were born with a creative spark inside. Do you look at yourself now and wonder if the spark has gone out? Ignite that inner fire with the 30 engaging exercises, fun activities, inspirational images, and motivating ideas in this book. Learn what your Little Spark of creative passion... |
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You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World
Phaidon - Phaidon Press
Format: Paperback
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A timeless collection of quotations by visionaries who have been catalysts for change - through the ages and across the globeYou Had Better Make Some Noise brings together the words of social activists, revolutionaries, artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, and more - galvanizing... |
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Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jeffrey S. Cramer - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world.Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson tends... |
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Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do
Kathleen Trainor - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book
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Ten million children in the United States -- two million of them preschoolers -- suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks... |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk MD - Viking
Format: Paperback
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A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three... |
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Raising Resilience: The Wisdom and Science of Happy Families and Thriving Children
Christopher Willard - Sounds True
Format: Paperback
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In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings that lead to a fulfilling life - such as generosity, kindness, honesty, determination, and patience. Today, a growing body of research from neuroscience and social psychology supports these teachings, offering insights into cultivating these... |
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Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century
Laurence Scott - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world." -- GuardianIn Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death: "picnic, lightning." Picnic Comma Lightning, too,... |
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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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When Someone You Know Has Depression: Words to Say and Things to Do
Susan J Noonan - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book
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Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other... |
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Against Democracy
Jason Brennan - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous,... |
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Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities
Jackson Wright Shultz - Dartmouth
Format: Print book
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Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, Jackson Shultz records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender.... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
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Panorama of Psychology
Vilen Vardanyan - AuthorHouseUK
Format: Paperback
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Panorama of PsychologyBy:Vilen Vardanyan |
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Peter Pomerantsev - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author takes us on a journey to the center of the information war, where unseen armies and authoritarians seek to define and reshape the truth.Perhaps the most important global trend of the last few years has been the rise--and transformation--of information warfare. In the digital... |
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Thriving with PCOS: Lifestyle Strategies to Successfully Manage Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Kelly Morrow-Baez - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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PCOS is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility. More than that, the symptoms of the syndrome can cause significant emotional distress and long-term health consequences. Most women who receive a diagnosis of PCOS have no idea what that means. This book picks up where a diagnosis... |
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Ann Hulbert - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking... |
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Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals
Mark Edmundson - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values... |
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Julia Shaw - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique... |
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Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed... |
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The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression
EDWARD BULLMORE - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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As seen on "CBS This Morning" Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward... |
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one...It blew the top of my head off and I haven't been able to stop thinking or talking about it since." - Elizabeth Gilbert "Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking... |
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A Colorful History of Popular Delusions
Robert E. Bartholomew - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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This eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common?... |
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The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Jeanne Safer - Picador Usa, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Dr. Jeanne Safer has dedicated much of her decades' long career in psychotherapy to exploring taboo subjects that we all think about in private but seldom discuss in public. From conflicted sibling relationships to the choice not to have children, Safer's work has always been... |
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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Nancy L. Rosenblum
Format: Hardcover
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How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy -- and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new -- conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government... |
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The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction
Regina Luttrell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Weve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. Weve also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls.... |
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Psychedelic Marine: A Transformational Journey from Afghanistan to the Amazon
Alex Seymour - Park Street Press
Format: Print book
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A vivid portrait of both the traumas of war and the shamanic healing ceremonies of ayahuasca* Explains how our culture lacks rites of passage and how shamanic ritual can fill this gap* Reveals how ayahuasca frees your consciousness from inherited beliefs, fears, and traumatic experience,... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
NAOMI JUDD - Center Street
Format: Paperback
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Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant... |
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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time
ALLEN GANNETT - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian - Twelve
Format: Print book
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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin... |
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
DANIEL J SIEGEL - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for positive thinking.When facing challenges, unpleasant tasks, and contentious issues such as homework, screen time, food choices, and bedtime,... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak - Three Rivers Press
Format: Print book
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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Empty: A Memoir
Susan Burton - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still."A smart, brave gift to the world. Bravo!" - Mary Karr, author of The Art of Memoir and The Liar's ClubFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton... |
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Walking with Plato
Gary Hayden - Oneworld Publications
Format: Print book
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.' So said Friedrich Nietzsche, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John o'Groats to Land's End.But it wasn't all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard... |
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists... |
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How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker - Norton
Format: Paperback
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"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." -- New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational -- and why are we so often... |
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and... |
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." - People"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity... |
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Assholes : a theory of Donald Trump
Aaron James - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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That Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just of philosophical... |
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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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From Tweens to Teens: The Parents' Guide to Preparing Girls for Adolescence
Maria Clark Fleshood - Familius
Format: Print book
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All parents want their daughters to become confident, happy, self-sufficient women, but the turbulent years of early adolescence can be difficult to navigate. From Tweens to Teens invites parents to rethink how they prepare their daughters to face these difficult developmental years. In this... |
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Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Astra Taylor - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times) , provides surprising answers.There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere... |
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Stephen King and Philosophy
Jacob M. Held - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Semetary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for over forty years. His characters have... |
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Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
Eric Greitens Navy SEAL - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offer a masterpiece of warrior wisdom that will change your life. You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage... |
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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
William Davies - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age,... |
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The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
Michael H. Stone MD - Prometheus
Format: Paperback
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A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious... |
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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
Simone Weil - University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Print book
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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science, religious studies, French studies,... |
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
GEORGE YANCY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "Dear White America" asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback... |
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The Anatomy of Evil
Michael H Stone - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVILIn this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits... |
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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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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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The Emotional Life of the Toddler
Alicia F Lieberman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Now updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman's The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the seminal, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three. Hailed as "groundbreaking" by The Boston Globe after its initial publication,... |
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Microtrends Squared: The New Small Forces Driving the Big Disruptions Today
Mark Penn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Ten years after his bestseller Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, culture, and politics.Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society's broad, general forces but by quiet changes within narrow slices... |
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Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and Californias First Insanity Plea
David Wilson - Diversion Books
Format: Paperback
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For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school... |
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Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression
Jessica Friedmann - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essaysThings That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate... |
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The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul
Lissa Rankin - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Not many people in the medical world are talking about how being afraid can make us sick - but the truth is that fear, left untreated, becomes a serious risk factor for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Now Lissa Rankin, M.D., explains why we need to heal ourselves from... |
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondo - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, from the star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo has revolutionized homes - and lives - across the world. Now, Kondo... |
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Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
Matthieu Ricard - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The author of the international best seller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism - and why we need it now more than ever.In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness... |
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The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives
Al Gini - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When E. B. White said "analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies," he hadn't seen Al Gini's hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish... |
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The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies to Take Control of Your Worry
Margaret Wehrenberg Psy.D. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Ready-to-use strategies to tame even your most anxiety-inducing moments. Suffer from a fear of flying? Break out in a sweat during presentations? Experience a sudden panic attack when in a confined space, like an elevator? Whether you're struggling with mild anxiety or battling more... |
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What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should: Applications to Daily Life
JEFFREY KOTTLER - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity... |
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Daniel G. Amen - Harmony Books,
Format: Print book
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In this completely revised and updated edition of the breakthrough bestseller, you'll see scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures in your brain work. You're not stuck with the brain you're... |
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How to Eat
Thich Nhat Hanh - Parallax Press
Format: Paperback
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Eating is a chance to return to the present moment.How to Eat is the second in Parallax's series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. These friendly, pocket-sized books contain several delightful illustrations by Jason DeAntonis, and are appropriate for those practicing in any spiritual... |
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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
Deborah Serani - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention... |
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Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Jennifer O'toole - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's... |
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On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis
George Yancy - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despair... |
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Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
Margee Kerr - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart.No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at one of America's scariest and most popular haunted houses, she has seen grown men laugh, cry, and push their loved ones aside as they run away in terror. And she's... |
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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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Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today's Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More
Shafia Zaloom - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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The only book you need to start a conversation with your kids about sexual harassment, consent, #metoo, and moreMany American teens are steeped in a culture that sends unsettling messages about sex, through everything from politics to music to the normalization of porn. In today's environment,... |
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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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Cracking the Boy Code: How to Understand and Talk with Boys
ADAM COX - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. How do you penetrate this shell before they... |
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Erotic Love and Marriage: Improving Your Sex Life and Emotional Connection
Frederick D Mondin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Erotic Love and Marriage is written for couples who are searching to establish or restore a fulfilling sexual relationship and a meaningful and gratifying connection. Using history, everyday life situations, and careful analysis, Frederick Mondin makes the case for liberation from the fear,... |
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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
Claudia Kalb - National Geographic Books
Format: Print book
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Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile... |
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