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Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
STEVE CASNER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions." - Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of HabitA safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think... |
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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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To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism
ROB RIEMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a book for people who want the West to regain its moral high ground, and who want to think hard about how to help achieve that." -- Anne ApplebaumAn international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about... |
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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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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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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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The Official Autism 101 Manual
Karen Simmons (Compiler) - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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When you need answers to your questions about anything related to autism, including early diagnosis, therapies, the buzz about vaccinations, social skills, self-esteem, planning for the future, coping skills, music therapy, or solving reading problems, this master collection gives you practical... |
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Mayhem: A Memoir
Sigrid Rausing - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines.... |
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Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality
Brian Little - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture - but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call... |
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Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived... |
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The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten: A Memoir
Joan Wheelis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Crafted from slivers of reminiscence and reflection, Joan Wheelis's beautifully written memoir explores the intricacies of attachment and the perils of love and inevitable loss.We glimpse the author's childhood in San Francisco and her relationship with her distinguished psychoanalyst parents... |
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's... |
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The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
Meredith Maran - HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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For fans of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a postdivorce memoir, one womans story of starting over at 60 - in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. For fans of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman, a postdivorce memoir, one womans story of starting over... |
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The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success
ALBERT-LASZLO BARABASI - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn't get the promotion; we played hard but weren't... |
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein presents a how-to guide rooted in two traditions, Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better lifeOur ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better,... |
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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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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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Retro Toddler: More Than 100 Old-School Activities to Boost Development
ANNE H ZACHRY - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback
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You don't need to buy high-tech digital devices, apps, or expensive toys to boost your toddler's brain development! Research shows that the best way for toddlers to learn is through daily, active play- and Retro Toddler includes more than 100 fun, age-appropriate, "old-school"... |
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Dont Give Up on Me: Shedding Light on Addiction with Darryl Strawberry
Shawn Powell - HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Major League Baseball All-Star Darryl Strawberry has triumphed... not only on the baseball diamond, but in life. My brain is broken--Darryl Strawberry Skillfully weaving Darryl Strawberrys personal story of childhood abuse, anxiety, drug abuse and alcohol addiction, between easy-to-understand... |
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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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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir
Mark Lukach - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco.... |
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Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life
Laura James - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly,... |
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Getting to "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv
Bob Kulhan - Stanford Business Books
Format: Print book
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Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to "Yes And" veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks... |
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On Color
DAVID FARTHING STEPHEN KASTAN - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most... |
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The Big Ideas Box
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of three top-selling titles from the graphics-led Big Ideas Simply Explained series: The Philosophy Book, The Psychology Book, and The Sociology Book.If you seek to understand how people think and interact, and to quickly absorb the best of human thinking and wisdom through... |
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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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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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Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present
Mark Stein - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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From outlawing bowling in colonial America to regulating violent video games and synthetic drugs today, Mark Stein's Vice Capades examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This humorous and quirky history reveals that... |
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Chris Clearfield - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems--from social media to air travel--this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life"Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book... |
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
Ariel Leve - Harper
Format: Print book
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A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences... |
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Class WarriorTaoist Style
Abdelkeir Khatibi - Wesleyan
Format: Hardcover
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Abdelkbir Khatibi (1938-2009) is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from North Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. Though not widely known beyond the Francophone world, Khatibi's critical and creative works speak to the central concerns of postcolonial... |
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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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Your Brain Knows More Than You Think: the new frontiers of neuroplasticity
Niels Birbaumer - Scribe Publications
Format: Paperback
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Our brains are more powerful than we ever realised. Too often, we assume that people's natures are fixed, immutable. For sufferers of depression, anxiety, ADHD, addiction, or the after-effects of stroke, this can be a difficult thought. For those with extreme conditions, such as locked-in... |
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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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Night Call: Embracing Compassion and Hope in a Troubled World
Robert J Wicks - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medicine, nursing, education, psychotherapy, social work, ministry, and the military, the potential for a meaningful way of being may even become... |
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Have a New Sex Life by Friday: Because Your Marriage Can't Wait until Monday
KEVIN LEMAN - Revell
Format: Paperback
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Given enough time, stress, and kids, even the most satisfying sex life can turn ho-hum. Before long, you find that your conversations center on taking the garbage out, you only make love with the lights off, and experimenting in the bedroom means changing the color of the duvet.Dr. Kevin... |
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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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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know
Steven R Sabat - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Alzheimer's is swiftly on the rise: it is estimated that every 67 seconds, someone develops the disease. For many, the words "Alzheimer's diseas" or "dementia" immediately denote severe mental loss and, perhaps, madness. Indeed, the vast majority of media coverage of Alzheimer's... |
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
Lisa Wade - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory account of the new culture of sex that has come to dominate the American college experience.The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers... |
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How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body: 10th Anniversary Edition
DAVID R HAMILTON - Hay House Insights
Format: Paperback
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An authoritative and accessible book by a qualified scientist, showing incredible proof of the mind-body connection.The connection between your mind and body is a powerful tool in taking control of your life and ambitions. The power of thought can affect us in profound, often life-changing,... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book
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A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life.... |
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Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
David Armitage - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history,... |
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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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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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Everyday Mindfulness for OCD: Tips, Tricks, and Skills for Living Joyfully
JON HERSHFIELD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback
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Don't just survive - thrive. In Everyday Mindfulness for OCD, two experts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) offer a blend of mindfulness, humor, and self-compassion to help you stop dwelling on what's wrong and start enhancing what's right - leading to a more joyful life.If... |
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
John J Kaag - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys -- one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years... |
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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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The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Jonathan Israel - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth... |
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Tali Sharot - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty... |
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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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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya L Chemaly - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about."... |
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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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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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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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Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride
David DeSteno - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering psychologist reveals how three emotions can provide the surest, quickest route to success in any realm. A string of bestsellers have alerted us to the importance of grit - an ability to persevere and control one's impulses that is so closely associated with greatness.... |
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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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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Andrew Shtulman - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,... |
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Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity
Julia V Douthwaite - University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Hardcover
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Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events - a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two - held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tercentennial in 2012. Growing... |
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How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
TOBIAS LEENAERT - Lantern Books
Format: Paperback
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In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using... |
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On Forgiveness and Revenge: Lessons from an Iranian Prison
Ramin Jahanbegloo - University of Regina Press
Format: Hardcover
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"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." - Nelson MandelaUpon his release from Iran's notorious Evin Prison, philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo contemplated... |
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It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with
Winifred M Reilly - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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With a focus on self-empowerment and resilience, this refreshing and witty relationship guide has a reassuring counterintuitive message for unhappy spouses: you only need one partner to initiate far-reaching positive change in a marriage.Conventional wisdom says that "it takes two"... |
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The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians
Bart Schultz - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other foundersIn The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism--one of the most influential... |
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Barbara Oakley - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become. At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover... |
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Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
Stacey Patton - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in AmericaSeventy percent of all Americans say they favor spanking, but African American culture seems to have a special attachment to it. The overwhelming majority of Black... |
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,... |
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When Colorblindness Isn't the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race
Anthony B Pinn - Pitchstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain divided over what if any agenda should guide humanist thought and action toward questions of race. In this volume, Anthony B. Pinn makes... |
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Jenny Lawson - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:"I've... |
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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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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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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 Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
Michael S Gazzaniga - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff" -- atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells -- create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem... |
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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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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years... |
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey... |
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Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
Juan Martinez - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath... |
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
Mary Gaitskill - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects... |
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The World of Philosophy: An Introductory Reader
Steven M. Cahn - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Accessible, flexible, and affordable, The World of Philosophy: An Introductory Reader, Second Edition, presents philosophy in all its diverse array of thought and practice, offering a distinctive combination of standard analytical materials and Western historical texts alongside writings... |
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A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
William H Reid - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found. On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere... |
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Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude
RAYMOND M KETHLEDGE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to the role of solitude in good leadership, including profiles of historical and contemporary figures who have used solitude to lead with courage, creativity, and strength.Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Eisenhower wrote memoranda to himself... |
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Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry
Lynne Jones - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Hardcover
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What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What is it like to be a twelve-year-old and see all your family killed in front of you? Is it true that almost everyone caught up in a disaster is likely to suffer from post-traumatic... |
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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 Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, The Philosophy Book explores the history and concepts of philosophy, and demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter.Are the ideas of Ren Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes still relevant today The Philosophy Book unpacks the writings... |
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Trump and a Post-Truth World
Ken Wilber - Shambhala
Format: Paperback
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A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation -- by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times.The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia - and most visibly, the U.S. with the election... |
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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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The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking
Olivia Fox Cabane - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their brain to have more eureka insights.The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic,... |
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow Walls - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
ALAN LIGHTMAN - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.As... |
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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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The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity
Sally Kohn - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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At a moment when we are facing an epidemic of incivility and hate - with divisive political speech, online trolling, and hate crimes escalating - popular CNN commentator Sally Kohn sets out to discover why we hate and how can stop it. As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN,... |
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Freud: The Making of an Illusion
Frederick C Crews - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin -- but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary... |
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to CharacterEvery so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows with a kind... |
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand... |
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestsellerTiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsNo matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach... |
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Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book
William Paul White - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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What does your baby want to say? You can find out-even before your baby can verbally speak-by using baby sign language. Signs of a Happy Baby gives parents everything they need to start signing with their baby, including a comprehensive dictionary with easy-to-follow photos of fun and practical... |
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Breathe, Mama, Breathe: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Busy Moms
Shonda Moralis - The Experiment
Format: Print book
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A "Mom Must-Read" - Parents Easy-to-follow practices that will help moms find quick, daily opportunities to reset and refocus with mindfulness Moms can feel as if they are sprinting through life, crashing onto the pillow at day's end only to start again the next morning.... |
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The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
Julian Baggini - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving - or even discussing - divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally... |
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