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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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The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
Adam Waytz - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY - Random House Format: Hardcover
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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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The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media
Kate Eichhorn - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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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