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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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What Works: Gender Equality by Design
Iris Bohnet - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design... |
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Infidelity: Why Men and Women Cheat
KENNETH PAUL ROSENBERG - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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What the latest science tells us about the brain's reward systems, love, and sex--and how to prevent an affair from destroying your lifeIn both genders and across age groups, infidelity is on the rise. People often cheat in a haze of delusion, believing that it will bring them real... |
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus - featured here in a stand-alone edition - is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide - the question... |
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Galit Atlas - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don't always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create... |
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's,... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety. A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been... |
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Man, Interrupted: Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It
Philip Zimbardo - Conari Press
Format: Print book
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In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called "The Demise of Guys," which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book... |
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