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Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Bruce D. Perry - Basic Books Format: Paperback
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In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children - and outlines the path to recovery. How does trauma affect a childs mind - and how can that mind recover?... |
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Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America
George Yancy professor of philosophy Emory University - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Following the deaths of Trayvon Martin and other black youths in recent years, students on campuses across America have joined professors and activists in calling for justice and increased awareness that Black Lives Matter. In this second edition of his trenchant and provocative book, George... |
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Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Autumn Whitefield-Madrano - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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A thought-provoking examination of how we think and talk about beauty today - and the unexpected and often positive ways that beauty shapes our lives.For decades, we've discussed our insecurities in the face of idealized, retouched, impossibly perfect images. We've worried primping and preening... |
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A Book About Love
Jonah Lehrer - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,... |
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Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation
Eric Kaplan - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa - from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang TheoryMetaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick... |
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Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition
Judith A Cohen - The Guilford Press Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative guide has introduced many tens of thousands of clinicians to Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) , a leading evidence-based treatment for traumatized children and their parents or caregivers. Preeminent clinical researchers provide a comprehensive framework... |
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li - Random House Format: Print book
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In her first nonfiction book, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable"What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance"Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom,... |
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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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10 Steps to Mastering Stress: A Lifestyle Approach, Updated Edition
David H. Barlow - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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We know that stress is bad for us. We see evidence of this in the news, we hear it from our doctors, and we feel it at the end of a hectic week. Health professionals have learned that stress interferes with our lives-it increases missed work days, can lead to relationship difficulties,... |
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Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders
Stacey Radin Dr. - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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An empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate, and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the middle school years.After years of research as a psychologist and consultant for women struggling in the professional world, Stacey Radin made a groundbreaking... |
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Coping with Anxiety: Ten Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
Edmund Bourne - New Harbinger Pub, 2016. Format: Print book
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Relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good! Fully revised and based in the latest research, this second edition of Coping with Anxiety includes the latest DSM updates and provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies to stop anxiety at its source.If you suffer from anxiety,... |
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Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action
Max Klau - Jossey-Bass Format: Hardcover
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A powerful study illuminates our nation's collective civic fault lines Recent events have turned the spotlight on the issue of race in modern America, and the current cultural climate calls out for more research, education, dialogue, and understanding. Race and Social Change: A Quest,... |
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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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Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion
Edward F Mooney - Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Format: eBook
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Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous... |
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Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson - Basic Civitas Books Format: Print book
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"Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books and newspaper articles, over television... |
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A Van der Kolk - Viking Format: Paperback
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A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress 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;... |
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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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Love Is All You Need: The Art and Science of Non-Training Your Dog
Jennifer Arnold - Spiegel & Grau Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Dog's Eyes - the inspiration for the PBS documentary - a paradigm-shifting approach to living with and loving our dogsThere are few people who understand dogs better than Jennifer Arnold. Twenty-five years after she founded... |
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Effective Math Interventions: A Guide to Improving Whole-Number Knowledge
Robin S Codding - The Guilford Press Format: Paperback
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Building foundational whole-number knowledge can help put K-5 students on the path to academic success and career readiness. Filling a gap for school practitioners, this book presents step-by-step guidelines for designing and implementing classwide, small-group, and individual interventions... |
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Eating Disorders
Pamela K Keel - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive and accessible investigation of eating disorders, spanning topics such as historical and cross-cultural trends in prevalence of eating pathology, biological bases of eating disorders, and treatment and prevention. It provides an examination of the intersections... |
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Joseph T. Hallinan - Crown Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is... |
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Naomi Judd - Center St Format: Print book
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Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease. The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music stars ever. What the world... |
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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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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Dave Grossman - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton,... |
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The Art of War: The Quintessential Collection of Military Strategy
ERIK O RONNINGEN - Race Point Publishing Format: Hardcover
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This elegantly designed edition of The Art of War includes four of history's key treatises: The Art of War, The Prince, On War, Instructions to His Generals. Collected in this elegant volume are four of the most influential military and political treatises in history. Originally written... |
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Daphne Merkin - Farrar Format: Print book
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A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly... |
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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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Criminal psychology
David V Canter - Sage Publications Format: eBook
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The volumes in this new set present a selection of important publications with an emphasis on seminal works from across the globe, reflecting the increasingly global reach of the topic. Each volume includes an introduction by esteemed editor David Canter, to contextualize the historical,... |
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Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Anthony Appiah - Harvard Univ. Press Format: Hardcover
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois'... |
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The Psychology Bible: The Definitive Guide to the Science of the Mind
Sandi Mann - Firefly Books Format: Print book
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The Psychology Bible presents more than an introduction to the discipline. It is applicable to anyone and everyone and we are all curious about why we think and feel the way we do. The topics include: The history of psychology, the "science of the mind" Biographies... |
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Joseph T Hallinan - Crown Publishers Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings' astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception - of ourselves and the world around us - is much... |
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder - Ecco Format: Print book
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A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors... |
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Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving
JEFF EMMERSON - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD... |
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African Americans and Depression: Signs, Awareness, Treatments, and Interventions
Julia F. Hastings - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Depression does not discriminate, and yet the ways in which people and communities view and react to depression differ. The unique experiences of African Americans are often taken into account when examining other topics of interest, but mental health in general is often overlooked. African... |
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ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know
Stephen P Hinshaw - Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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Rates of diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, throughout America and the rest of the world. U.S. rates of youth diagnosis have increased 40% from just a decade ago. Adults with ADHD are now the fastest-growing segment of the population receiving... |
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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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Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer - Oxford University Press, USA Format: Hardcover
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In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
David A Greenwood - Sterling Format: Print book
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We know that Attention Deficit Disorder makes it tough for children to focus in school. But what happens when those kids grow up? How can they make the transition to a successful professional life? And how can newly diagnosed adults meet the challenges of the workplace? David Greenwood,... |
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Fake Missed Connections
Brett Fletcher Lauer - Soft Skull Press, 2016. Format: Print book
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Your wife is having an affair with my husband. It has caused some trouble in my marriage and I thought you should know.One phone call in December 2005 begins the compelling, unpredictable story of Fake Missed Connections. A child of divorce with an already fragile sense of trust, Lauer... |
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Burglar's guide to the city.
Geoff Manaugh - Farrar Format: Book
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Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.At the core of A Burglar's Guide... |
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Clearing the Haze: Helping Families Face Teen Addiction
Christian M.D. Thurstone - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Often it is difficult for parents to recognize when their child is abusing alcohol, using illegal drugs, or in trouble with other substances that are hazardous to their health, safety, and wellbeing. Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have... |
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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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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Touré - Atria Books; 1st edition, edition Format: Hardcover
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In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Inspired by a president who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage, we are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness. In this provocative new book, iconic commentator... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duosfrom John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve WozniakJoshua Wolf Shenk identifies... |
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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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The Philosophy Bible: The Definitive Guide to the Last 3,000 Years of Thought
Martin Cohen - Firefly Books Format: Print book
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This is a concise, comprehensive guide that covers the main schools of thought from the Ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucius and Lao Tzu; Ancient wisdom from Aristotle, Plato, Zeno and Pythagoras; through to those most influential of philosophers studied the world over -- Hegel,... |
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When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia
Christopher Bollas - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped... |
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Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool
Jennifer Jacquet - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. But while guilt holds individuals to personal... |
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Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
Joseph LeDoux - Viking Format: Hardcover
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"[Anxious] helps to explain and prevent the kinds of debilitating anxieties all of us face in this increasingly stressful world." - Daniel J. Levitin, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain On MusicA comprehensive and accessible exploration of anxiety, from a leading... |
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Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities: A Path to Pride and Success
Margo Vreeburg Izzo - Brookes Publishing Format: Paperback
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How can you empower students with invisible disabilities to manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams? This guidebook has inspiring and informative answers. Told with the authentic voices of adults with hidden disabilities, this encouraging,... |
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American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
Carl E Rollyson - Picador/St. Martin's Press Format: Paperback
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The life and work of Sylvia Plath has taken on the proportions of legend. Educated at Smith College, she had a conflicted relationship with her mother, Aurelia. She then married the poet Ted Hughes and plunged into the Sturm und Drang of literary celebrity. Her poems were fought over, rejected,... |
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Children Who Fail at School But Succeed at Life: Lessons from Lives Well-Lived
Mark Katz - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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Understanding resiliency and student success by studying people who succumbed to risk but later triumphed. A number of people who failed in school currently enjoy meaningful and successful lives. They include, though they are by no means limited to, those with attention and executive function... |
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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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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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Art of thinking clearly.
Rolf Dobelli - Harpercollins Format: Book
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We are all guilty of cognitive biases, simple errors we make in day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to identify them, we can avoid them and make better choices. The Art of Thinking Clearly shows that in order to lead happier, more prosperous lives, we don't need... |
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Introductory and Reference Materials
André Laks - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present... |
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Sex, Drugs and Asperger's Syndrome
Luke Jackson - Jessica Kingsley Publishers Format: Print book
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Luke Jackson's unabridged and sparkling sequel to his best-selling user guide to adolescence Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome is the must-read handbook for teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum. With devastating clarity, Luke focuses on the pitfalls involved in navigating... |
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The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
Stephan A Schwartz - Park Street Press, 2015. Format: Print book
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Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background * Shares the stories of people who have changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ben Franklin, and Gandhi, detailing how they used... |
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
Jessica Hagy - Workman Publishing Company Format: Print book
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It's the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life's challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information... |
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Talk With Your Kids: Conversations About Ethics -- Honesty, Friendship, Sensitivity, Fairness, Dedication, Individuality -- and 103 Other Things That Really Matter
Michael Parker - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Format: Paperback
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A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issuesMany families and almost all schools... |
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Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
Susan Peirce Thompson - Hay House Inc. Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Foreword by John Robbins, author of the international bestseller DIET FOR A NEW AMERICAIn this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge... |
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GRE Subject Test: Psychology
Kaplan - Kaplan Publishing Format: Print book
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Kaplan's GRE Subject Test: Psychology is a fully updated edition of the top selling GRE Psychology prep book reflecting test-maker changes to align with the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) , including updated vocabulary, diagnosis, treatment guidelines,... |
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