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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Andrew S. Curran · Other Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into... |
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How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
Catherine Wilson · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer
Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) .
As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments.... |
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Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Lisa Damour Ph.D. · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
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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Panic Free: The 10-Day Program to End Panic, Anxiety, and Claustrophobia
Tom Bunn · New World Library
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Panic, and its close cousins anxiety and claustrophobia, have long been a problem without a reliable solution. In most cases, the estimated six million Americans who suffer with a panic disorder receive only marginal relief from psychotherapy (usually Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) , medication,... |
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A Couple's Guide to Happy Retirement: 15 Keys to a Lasting Relationship
Sara Yogev · Familius
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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A Couple s Guide to Happy Retirement is the most comprehensive book devoted entirely to relationship issues in retirement. Not a treatise on money management, this is a much-needed guide to the psychological aspects of retirement and how to make your retirement relationship happy, fruitful,... |
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician
Michael Ellis · Oxford University Press
Pages: 240
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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Myths of Work: The Stereotypes and Assumptions Holding Your Organization Back
Ian MacRae · Kogan Page
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
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Buying a table tennis table will make your staff happier. Working eight hours a day, five days a week, will result in the most productivity. Paying higher salaries will always result in higher motivation. But will it really?There are a staggering number of myths, stereotypes and out-of-date... |
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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E Harcourt · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani · Currency
Pages: 224
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... |
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Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
Darcey Steinke · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic. I'm about to buy it for everyone... |
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating species
If 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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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
Gabriel Weinberg · Portfolio
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
You've got to have models in your head."
- Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire... |
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
Hala Alyan · Mariner Books
Pages: 96
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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