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Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Jennifer O'toole - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World

Adam Waytz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An urgent yet hopeful analysis of the surge in dehumanization, and how we can reverse it.The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. Thanks to social media, we can know a campaigning politician's platform; an avid traveler's...
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Capture: A Theory of the Mind

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

Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad...
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No Time to Panic: How I Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks by Crying with Strangers, Bear-Hugging My Fears, and Dialing Down My Anxiety

Matt Gutman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

By ABC News's chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds. Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment that his life was upended, even if he can't...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

JASON STANLEY - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means...
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America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks

Ruth Whippman - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder?After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly...
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The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media

Kate Eichhorn - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind?Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge...
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Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues

David Bradford Ph.D.
Format: Hardcover

The ability to create strong relationships with others is crucial to living a full life and becoming more effective at work. Yet many of us find ourselves struggling to build solid personal and professional connections or unable to handle challenges that inevitably arise when we grow closer...
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The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently...
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You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health?With Advice from Experts and Wisdom from Real People and Families

Ken Duckworth MD - Zando
Format: Hardcover

Written with authority and compassion, this is the essential resource for individuals and families seeking expert guidance on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, featuring inspiring, true stories from real people in their own words.Millions of people in the United States are affected by mental...
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