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Overcoming OCD: A Journey to Recovery
Janet Singer - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel Singer hadn't eaten in a week. Hunched over with his head in his hands, he'd sit in his "safe" chair for hours, doing nothing but shaking, mumbling and moaning; he was in the throes of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dan went from seven therapists to ten medications... |
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Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's
Tim Page - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn't know he had Asperger's syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called "lucid... |
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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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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's... |
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Make Better Pictures: Truth, Opinions, and Practical Advice
HENRY HORENSTEIN - Little Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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Henry Horenstein may be the world's bestselling photography teacher, with more than 700, 000 copies of his photography manuals sold. Now, in this easily digestible book of wisdom, he distills a career's worth of instruction into one hundred memorable pieces of advice. Photography has never... |
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Surviving Schizophrenia : A Family Manual
E. Fuller Torrey - Harper Perennial; 6 edition
Format: Paperback
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Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, the bestselling Surviving Schizophrenia is back, now in its sixth edition.Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients,... |
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A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging: Coping with Change
H Michael Zal - Lexington Books
Format: Print book
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As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father's way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional... |
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Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion
Meredith Fineman - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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This effortless and unapologetic approach to self-promotion will manage your anxiety and allow you to champion yourself. Does talking about your accomplishments feel scary or icky because you're worried people will think you're "obnoxious"?Does it feel more natural to "put... |
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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
Claudia Kalb - National Geographic Books
Format: Print book
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Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives readers a glimpse into the lives of high-profile... |
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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
J. K. Rowling - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom... |
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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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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
JERRY CLARK - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted... |
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The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
David Amerland - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Sniper Mind from David Amerland is the first book to examine the learned skills necessary to become a sniper and teach readers how to apply those skills in business and in life.. Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge,... |
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Debunking ADHD: 10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids
Michael W. Corrigan - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Book
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The time has come for debunking ADHD and exposing how this invented disorder created to drug children that does not exist. Despite unanimous agreement that no test exists to identify ADHD, 6.4 million American children are labeled with ADHD. To make matters worse, approximately two-thirds... |
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Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
Rob Brotherton - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part) . They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society... |
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman - Avery, a member of Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fictionA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism?... |
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Three Women
Lisa Taddeo - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "THIS IS THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. This is it. This is the one...It blew the top of my head off and I haven't been able to stop thinking or talking about it since." - Elizabeth Gilbert "Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking... |
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin - Vintage; Reissue edition
Format: Book
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures... |
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,... |
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing - Picador, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo SpringWhat does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human... |
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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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Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Eugene Soltes - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes took a remarkable journey deep into the minds of these white-collar... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading."... |
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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence... |
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Ancestors: Who We Are and Where We Come From
David Hertzel - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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People involve their ancestors in every aspect of culture. Individuals and societies worldwide and throughout history have incorporated ancestors into rituals public and private, religious and secular. Societies often organize their aristocracies, tribes, and other kinship groups around... |
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
John J Kaag - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys -- one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years... |
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JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier
Steven Watts - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedys allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s -- his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal? As Steve... |
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Kate Bolick - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"-- |
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Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
Francis Mark Mondimore - Johns Hopkins University Press; third edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimores pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its third edition, Bipolar Disorder has been thoroughly updated with new information about the causes of the disorder, tools... |
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,... |
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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the MonthIndiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel... |
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Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within
Chade-Meng Tan - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times and USA Today BestsellerJoy is the root of happiness.Joy is a sustainable state that fuels our creativity and inspiration for innovation. It strengthens our ability to attract friends and to get along with people. Learning to cultivate joy is the fundamental secret... |
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - "The Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg Businessweek - Bookish" FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS... |
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Love, Again: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance
Eve Pell - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In Love, Again, Eve Pell beautifully and thoughtfully concludes that life experience adds dimensions to the art of connectionand that we all stand to learn something from unexpected romance. How do old people meet new loves Eve Pell was 68 when she convinced a friend to set her up with... |
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A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
William H Reid - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found. On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere... |
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Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don?t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts?and... |
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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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John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy
Luke Mayville - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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Why American founding father John Adams feared the political power of the rich -- and how his ideas illuminate todays debates about inequality and its consequences. Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class... |
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Thinking Person's Guide To Autism
Shannon Des Roches Rosa - Deadwood City Publishing
Format: Print book
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one-stop source for carefully curated, evidence-based information from autistics, autism parents, and autism professionals. |
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The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Warren Farrell - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis... |
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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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Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative
Amit Goswami - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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     In this mind-expanding work, physicist Amit Goswami, Ph.D., explores the world of human creativity—the ultimate source of joy and fulfillment—through the lens of quantum physics, and offers up a unique way to nurture and enhance... |
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The Psychology of Strategy: Exploring Rationality in the Vietnam War
Kenneth Payne - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour... |
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Happy
Derren Brown - Whitman
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Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness, and come up with all sorts of different definitions... |
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Autism Breakthrough: The Groundbreaking Method That Has Helped Families All Over the World
Raun Kahlil Kaufman - St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate autism expert... |
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The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction
Regina Luttrell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Weve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. Weve also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls.... |
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly) , "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic) , and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams... |
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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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Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives
David Bryce Yaden - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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This unique book is an essential resource for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on the phenomenon of feeling called to a life path or vocation at the interface of science and religion.* Offers religious, spiritual, scientific, and secular avenues of understanding experiences of calling*... |
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Deluxe Hardcover Edition
Sunzi - El Paso Norte Press
Format: Print book
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This deluxe hardcover edition of The Art of War presents Sun Tzu's timeless instructions regarding military strategy and managing conflict in two forms. The first part contains The Art of War in English, without notes or commentary. This allows the reader to understand the teachings... |
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The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Liza Long - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder When she heard about the Newtown shooting her first thought was What if my son does that someday She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy which the Boise State University online journal published as I Am Adam Lanzas Mother... |
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The Road to Character
David Brooks - Random House
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST * "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - David Brooks... |
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Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Attacks!
Raun Melmed - Familius
Format: Print book
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Meet Marvin, a lovable monster with a twelve-stringed baby fang guitar, a rambunctious case of ADHD, and a diary to record it all. His teachers scold him, his parents don't know what to do with him, and his sister is convinced he was raised by triple-tailed monkeys. In short, Marvin's... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative.... |
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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Liz Fosslien - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet A hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms.How do you stop the office... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost... |
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