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The Creativity Challenge: How We Can Recapture American Innovation
K H Kim - Prometheus
Format: Print book
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American creativity has steadily declined since 1990. That disturbing trend recently came to light through the work of leading educational psychologist KH Kim, a recognized expert in creativity assessment. In this insightful and inspiring book, Kim discovers the causes of the decrease in creativity... |
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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World
ERICA BENNER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli, the most misunderstood thinker of all time, fought to change his corrupt world.Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like... |
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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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Critical Thinking Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day
LLC Editors of LearningExpress - Learningexpress, LLC; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Become an effective critical thinker in just 20 minutes a day! Whether at work, at school, or at home, critical thinking skills are essential for success. Learning to think critically will improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, giving you the tools you need to tackle the tough... |
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Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change
Chris Ertel - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges - meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere... |
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The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More
David DeSteno - PENGUIN BOOKS
Format: Hardcover
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What really drives success and failure? Can I trust you? It's the question that strikes at the heart of human existence. Whether we're talking about business partnerships, romantic relationships, child-parent bonds, or the brave new world of virtual interaction, trust, when correctly... |
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Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Barbara L. Fredrickson Ph.D. - Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives. Using research from her own lab,... |
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Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
JUSTIN A M D FRANK - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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A full psychoanalytic portrait of President Donald Trump by the New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. Questions and concerns about... |
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Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD
Timothy Denevi - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The first book of its kind, this compelling and moving memoir about what it's like to be a child with ADHD also explains the history of the diagnosis and how we have come to medicate more than four million children today.Among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for hyperactivity... |
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The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
Patricia B McConnell - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.World-renowned... |
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A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes
Nicholas Rescher - University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback
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Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time... |
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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While it seems that news about the opioid epidemic has been running non-stop for the past several years, the deluge of reports can make it difficult to remember exactly where and how the trouble started. Beth Macy’s book Dopesick takes the reader all the way back to 1996,... |
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Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
WENDY JONES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence -- and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection. Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read... |
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Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion
Katie Watson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageAlthough Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited... |
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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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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi
ARUN GANDHI - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,... |
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Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
Lee Gutkind - Underland Pr
Format: Print book
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Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak - Three Rivers Press
Format: Print book
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater - Little, Brown and Company
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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Drunk Mom: A Memoir
Jowita Bydlowska - Penguin Books, 2014.
Format: Print book
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"An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told. I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn't happen to me that often." - Lena Dunham Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne... |
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Charles Fernyhough - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our headsAt the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"... |
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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Nicholas Epley - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important... |
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Promise Land: My Journey through America's Self-Help Culture
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“In writing this book I walked on hot coals, met a man making a weight-loss robot, joined a Healing Circle, and faced my debilitating fear of flying. Of all of these things, talking to my father about my mother’s death was by far the hardest.” The daughter of a widowed... |
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Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How It Shapes Our Lives
John D Mayer - Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of cognitive psychology research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become our best selves, we use an even broader intelligence-which... |
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition
Sigmund Freud - Verso
Format: Print book
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The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysisAvailable for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud's thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work.... |
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie Roiphe - The Dial Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes... |
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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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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
THOMAS W MALONE - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent... |
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Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Reading this book is like coming home from a bad date and finding the person who knows you best in the world sitting on your couch, ready to pour you a glass of wine and give you a hug." - Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat PersonThe wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally... |
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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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Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook
LaManda Joy - Timber Press
Format: Paperback
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Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches. LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago's... |
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tao Lin - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first centurys most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. A Vintage Original. While isolating himself to work... |
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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book
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With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined... |
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Praised as a revelatory book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prizewinning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durants sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions,... |
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Thomas Jefferson: Uncovering His Unique Philosophy and Vision
M. Andrew Holowchak - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first book to systematize the philosophical content of Thomas Jefferson’s writings. Sifting through Jefferson’s many addresses, messages, and letters, philosopher M. Andrew Holowchak uncovers an intensely curious Enlightenment thinker with a well-constructed, people-sympathetic,... |
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Hope for the Violently Aggressive Child: New Diagnoses and Treatments that Work
Ralph Ankenman - Future Horizons
Format: Book
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Dr. Ralph Ankenman presents new diagnoses and treatment options for children who have severe disruptive meltdowns at home or school. Referred to as Immature Adrenaline Systems Overreactivity (IASO), this approach is based on the relationship between aggression and the body's adrenaline... |
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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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The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world
David Eagleman - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman teams up with composer Anthony Brandt in this powerful, wide-ranging exploration of human creativity. Together, they incisively explore how individuals, organizations, and educational institutions can benefit from... |
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
DANIEL COYLE - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your... |
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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone - The Experiment
Format: Paperback
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The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering... |
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Boys: What It Means to Become a Man
Rachel Giese - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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A vital and sweeping examination of today's "boy crisis," demonstrating the ways in which we raise boys into a culture of toxic masculinity and offering solutions that can liberate us allWhether they're being urged to "man up" or warned that "boys don't... |
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Hard to Love: Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder
Joseph Nowinski - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in men is often misdiagnosed and typically leads to either no treatment or the wrong treatment. This is the first book to address this under-recognized problem. It contains symptoms and causes, as well as treatment, targeted to men who suffer from BPD.Joseph... |
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Plato: A Complete Introduction
Roy Jackson - Teach Yourself
Format: Print book
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"Plato: A Complete Introduction" is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like summaries... |
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Designology: How to Find Your PlaceType and Align Your Life With Design
Dr. Sally Augustin - Mango
Format: Paperback
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Align With DesignCreate spaces at home and work that align with your personality type and support your goals with this comprehensive science-based guide.Discover a new paradigm: Are you an adventurer or a visionary? A maveric or a maven? Designology makes design personal through author... |
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Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide
Marc J Hetherington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us
Todd May - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair - and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character.... |
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How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Randy J Paterson - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Print book
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In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which - if followed - are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!There are stacks upon... |
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Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Eden Collinsworth - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex - and ethically flexible - age.To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders... |
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
Frank Tallis - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Writer and subject were rarely better matched. This is a brilliant, compelling book."--Ian McEwanIn The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist... |
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Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1
Peter Adamson - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible,... |
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Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness
Joel Gold - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What if you woke up with the alarming suspicion that you were being watched?One day in 2003, a patient unlike any other that Dr. Joel Gold had seen before was admitted to his unit at Bellevue Hospital. This man claimed he was being filmed constantly and that his life was being broadcast... |
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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Richard E Nisbett - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world." -Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times Book ReviewScientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping... |
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Walter Mischel - Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Print book
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Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior... |
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
Hala Alyan - Mariner Books
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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The Body Language of Liars: From Little White Lies to Pathological Deception - How to See through the Fibs, Frauds, and Falsehoods People Tell You Every Day
Lillian Glass - Career Press; 1 edition
Format:
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Being fooled or conned can happen to anyone; It doesn't matter how intelligent, old, rich, or famous you are. Whether you have been scammed in business, swindled out of money, betrayed by a friend, relative, or coworker, or cheated on by a spouse, rest assured you are not alone. The world... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone... |
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." - People"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity... |
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Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
Guy P. Harrison - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in a detailed fashion how to sort through bad ideas, unfounded claims, and bogus information... |
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Things That Helped: On Postpartum Depression
Jessica Friedmann - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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Jessica Friedmann navigates her recovery from postpartum depression in a wide-ranging collection of personal essaysThings That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate... |
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The Hope Circuit: A Psychologists Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
Martin E P Seligman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past... |
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Against Democracy
Jason Brennan - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous,... |
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All Bets Are Off: Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction
Arnie Wexler - Central Recovery Press
Format: Book
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Arnie Wexler's life as a gambler began on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, flipping cards, shooting marbles, and playing pinball machines. At age fourteen he found the racetrack, a bookie, and started playing the stock market. His obsession with gambling accelerated until a fateful... |
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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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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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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain
Tonya M. Palermo - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Paperback
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"Madeline is a 15-year-old girl with abdominal pain and headaches that occur most days of the week. Because of her pain, she has missed 99 days of school this year and is no longer able to play volleyball. Her parents have taken her to see a number of specialists and she has tried... |
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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dolly Chugh - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at GoogleAn inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues... |
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Bald Is Better with Earrings: A Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
Andrea Hutton - Harper Wave
Format: Paperback
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The breast cancer guide every woman needs for herself, her best friend, and her sister - a warm, practical, relatable handbook, that dispels the terror, taking you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted... |
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The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself
ANDREA J BUCHANAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A real-life neurological mystery?and captivating story of reinvention?by the New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls.Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one blustery March morning. The cold winter air triggered a coughing fit, and she began to choke.... |
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Culture
Terry Eagleton - Yale University, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical... |
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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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This Is Woman's Work: Calling Forth Your Inner Council of Wise, Brave, Crazy, Rebellious, Loving, Luminous Selves
Dominique Christina - Sounds True
Format: Hardcover
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"A woman's work is to define herself," writes award-winning slam poet Dominique Christina. While this task is important for everybody, Dominique says, "There is an urgency for women. When you have inherited a construct that names, describes, and practices an ideology... |
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The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
Rick Darke - Timber Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding... |
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The Voyeur's Motel
Gay Talese - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel... |
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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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Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
JAIME LOWE - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder. It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating,... |
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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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When strangers meet
Kio Stark - TED Books
Format: Print book
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Discover the unexpected pleasures and exciting possibilities of talking to people you don't know - how these beautiful interruptions can change you, and the world we share.When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don't... |
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It's Not About the Shark: How to Solve Unsolvable Problems
David Niven - St Martins Pr
Format: Book
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It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems -- and how we solve them -- upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem... |
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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
Jessie Close - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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At a young age, Jessie Close struggled with symptoms that would transform into severe bipolar disorder in her early twenties, but she was not properly diagnosed until the age of fifty. Jessie and her three siblings, including actress Glenn Close, spent many years in the Moral Re-Armament... |
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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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The Road to Calm Workbook: Life-Changing Tools to Stop Runaway Emotions
Carolyn Daitch - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A protocol of easy-to-use tools that can be applied when readers experience difficult-to-manage emotions. Emotional flooding -- being overwhelmed by feelings -- happens in response to stress, anxiety, and life's challenges. In this client-orientated accompaniment to Affect Regulation... |
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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Edith Hall - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesAristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more... |
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The Power of Mindful Learning
Ellen J Langer - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book
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Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindulness, introduced in her influential earlier book, to dramatically enhance the way we learn.... |
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The Art of Reading
DAMON YOUNG - Scribe US
Format: Hardcover
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'What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.' As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop... |
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How Psychology Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the human mind and understand the science behind how people think and act in a wide variety of everyday situations with this brand-new visual guide to applied psychology.Using straightforward definitions and clear, striking visuals, this book makes the workings of the brain easy... |
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The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
Suzanne M Bouffard - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible. At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge... |
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Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self
Robert V. Levine - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In "Stranger in the Mirror," Robert Levine offers a provocative and entertaining scientific exploration of the most personal and important of all landscapes: the physical and psychological entity we call our self. Who are we? Where is the boundary between us and everything else?... |
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The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
Charles Taylor - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process.For... |
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The Art of Creative Thinking: 89 Ways to See Things Differently
Rod Judkins - Perigee Books
Format: Print book
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Get ready to get inspired In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them... |
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Calming Your Anxious Child: Words to Say and Things to Do
Kathleen Trainor - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book
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Ten million children in the United States--two million of them preschoolers--suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks such... |
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Four: A Divergent Collection (Divergent Series Story)
Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback
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Complete your Divergent library with Four! Fans of the Divergent trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told... |
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Street Spirit: The Power of Protest and Mischief
STEVE CRAWSHAW - Michael O'Mara
Format: Hardcover
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Street Spirit is a celebration of 50 extraordinary protests and demonstrations from around the world that have used humor, courage, absurdity and creativity to make their mark. Among the many instances of imaginative defiance within, you'll discover the surprising impact of Lego figures... |
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Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss
Joseph Luciani - AMACOM
Format: eBook
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Tired of your weight swinging up and down? Do you find it difficult to stick to a diet? You're not alone. Every day, millions of people battle temptation as they try to drop unwanted pounds. For those who succeed, a whopping 80 percent quickly pack the weight back on. Thin from Within... |
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Infant-Toddler Social Studies: Activities to Develop a Sense of Self
Carla B. Goble - Redleaf Press
Format: Paperback
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As infants become toddlers, their expanding sense of self, growing motor, language, and cognitive skills provide opportunities for learning more about the physical and social world around them. This book is a valuable resource for advancing a child's sense of self, cultural identity,... |
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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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