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The Sears Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two

William Sears MD FRCP - ?Little, Brown Spark; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

Revised and expanded: America's bestselling "baby bible" -- an encyclopedic guide to the first two years of your baby's life. The million-copy bestseller by "the man who remade motherhood" (TIME) has now been revised, expanded, and bought thoroughly up-to-date...
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Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

Melissa Atkins Wardy - Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Format: Paperback

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014 All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween costumes in tween sizes. Many parents are increasingly dismayed at how today's media, marketers, and manufacturers are sexualizing and stereotyping...
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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

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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The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

Nicholas Buccola - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin,...
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The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies...Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked: What is a good speech? What do popular...
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The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Gad Saad - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

- The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism have become endangered by a series of viral forces in our society today. Renowned host of the popular YouTube show "The SAAD Truth", Dr. Gad Saad exposes how an epidemic of idea pathogens are spreading like...
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Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

Matt Wallaert - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Nudge meets Hooked in a practical approach to designing products and services that change behavior, from what we buy to how we work.Deciding what to create at modern companies often looks like an episode of Mad Men: people throw ideas around until one sounds sexy enough...
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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy

Batya Ungar-Sargon - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream...
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How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond

Belle Liang - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose.Today's college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation....
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