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What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
Daniel Bergner - Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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In What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, critically acclaimed journalist Daniel Bergne disseminates the latest scientific research and paints an unprecedented portrait of female lust: the triggers, the fantasies, the mind-body connection (and disconnection), the reasons... |
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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
Peter Sagal - It Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host—the man who put the second "L" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers... |
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The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
GAYLE BRANDEIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicideGayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility... |
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Toilet Training-The Brazelton Way
T Berry Brazelton - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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Parents will welcome Brazelton's uniquely empathetic, wise, and helpful approach to this inevitable and often trying issue. Toilet training is a job for the child and not the parent, and by trying to force the issue or even encourage too hard, parents can set the stage for trouble. By "listening... |
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Autism and Its Medical Management: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Michael G. Chez - Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Autism and its Medical Management explains the medical aspects of autism and how both parents and professionals can use current medical knowledge to better understand how to address the medical aspects of autism. The book begins with an overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and how they... |
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The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
LLOYD SEDERER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking examination of addiction from the Chief Medical Officer for the New York State Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance... |
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.'... |
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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition
Friedrich A von Hayek - University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts... |
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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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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
NAOMI JUDD - Center Street
Format: Paperback
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Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant... |
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Wasted
Marya Hornbacher - HarpPeren; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia... |
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Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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An inside look into the lives of our veterans and the far-reaching impact of combat and serviceThere's no real homecoming for many of our veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They may go through the motions of daily life in their hometowns, but the terrible sights... |
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The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems into Strengths
Lara Honos-Webb - New Harbinger Publications; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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As a parent, you already know that your child has many gifts. What you may not know is that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) related symptoms—the very qualities that lead him or her to act out and distract others—may be among them. This second edition of The Gift... |
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Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents
Betsy Brown Braun - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Parents are often perplexed by their children's typical behaviors and inevitable questions. This down-to-earth guide provides "Tips and Scripts" for handling everything from sibling rivalry and the food wars to questions about death, divorce, sex, and "whyyyy?" Betsy... |
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The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU
Mike Dooley - Hay House, Inc.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“I know this may come as a shock, and you know I’m not fond of using stale one-liners, but—‘reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.’ I’m as alive now as I was on the day we met, except, maybe, more so.” If the dead... |
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Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart
Trista Sutter - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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Trista Rehn was a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer when she heard about casting for a new reality show - one guy getting to know twenty-five girls in the hope of finding a fiance. As improbable and crazy as it sounded, Trista took the chance - and had her heart... |
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How Women Decide
Therese Huston - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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"One could imagine it becoming required reading on Wall Street." - New York Times Book Review So, youve earned a seat at the table.What happens next? We all face hard decisions every day and the choices we make, and how others perceive them, can be life-changing. There are countless... |
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Surviving the Shadows: A Journey of Hope into Post-Traumatic Stress
Bob Delaney - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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"Filled with examples of courage, wisdom, and innovation, Surviving the Shadows is a must-read for anyone in the military, anyone associated with the military, or anyone protected by the military." -Nate Self, Army Ranger, Captain (ret.), decorated Iraq and Afghanistan War hero,... |
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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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Mad Men on the Couch: Analyzing the Minds of the Men and Women of the Hit TV Show
Stephanie Newman - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Mad Men has captured the imaginations of millions of viewers, winning fifteen golden globes and four Emmys. Perhaps more than the gorgeously stylized visuals and impeccably re-created history, it’s the show’s richly drawn characters stumbling through their personal and professional... |
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Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
Tom Szaky - Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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In this fun, pop culture exploration, two ecological entrepreneurs examine the materials we use in our daily lives, show how they impact the environment, and provide project ideas - from recycling to upcycling and more - to lessen our impact and protect our world.Jam-packed with information,... |
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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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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 Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Maria Konnikova - Viking
Format: Print book
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"It's a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime." - Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White... |
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It's Not About You, Except When It Is: A Field Manual For Parents of Addicted Children
Barbara Victoria - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape - in the author's... |
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin - Vintage books
Format: Paperback
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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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I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
Janelle Hanchett - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering," Janelle Hanchett's forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible. Pregnant at 21 by a man she'd... |
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Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success
David B. Feldman - HarperWave
Format: Hardcover
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Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.Over four billion people worldwide will... |
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The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape... |
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The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a well-researched and reassuring guide to raising kids in a world where technology is everywhere." -danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensFinally... |
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The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
Rachel Simmons - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons exposes the myth of the Good Girl, freeing girls from its impossible standards and encouraging them to embrace their real selvesIn The Curse of the Good Girl, bestselling author Rachel Simmons argues that in lionizing the Good Girl... |
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That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
Rachel Herz - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and revealing look at the science behind the emotion of disgust. Disgust originated to prevent us from eating poisonous food, but this simple safety mechanism has since evolved into a uniquely human emotion that dictates how we treat others, shapes our cultural norms, and even... |
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Is This a Phase? Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years
Helen F. Neville
Format: Paperback
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New parents are often so ancious; they need to know what's normal and when they should worry. This concise reference by pediatric nurse and parent educator Helen Fowler Neville, R.N., B.S., provides reassuring information on each phase of development. Numerous easy-to-read charts amplify... |
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New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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Why are we attuned to the latest headline, diet craze, smartphone, fashion statement? Why do we relish a change of scene, eye attractive strangers, develop new interests? How did Homo sapiens survive near-extinction during an environmental crisis 80,000 years ago, while close... |
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant - Dover Publications
Format: Paperback
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In his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two varieties of knowledge: a posteriori, the knowledge acquired through experience; and a priori,... |
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
Peter Singer - Rodale Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose... |
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida - Random House; 1st edition
Format: eBook
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Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never... |
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Moustafa Bayoumi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemyArab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed "problem" of American society, their lives no better understood than those of African... |
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Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
Dr. Dale Archer - Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times BestsellerA groundbreaking new view of human psychology that shows how eight key traits of human behavior - long perceived as liabilities - can be important hidden strengths.What if the inattentiveness that makes school or work a challenge holds the secret to your future... |
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When Dating Becomes Dangerous: A Parent's Guide to Preventing Relationship Abuse
Barrie Levy - Hazelden
Format: Print book
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Send your teenager out into the dating world equipped with the knowledge, strength, and communication skills to walk away from abusive relationships—and to develop healthy ones. As our kids grow older and they start asserting their independence, we worry about their safety and well... |
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Retro Toddler: More Than 100 Old-School Activities to Boost Development
ANNE H ZACHRY - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback
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You don't need to buy high-tech digital devices, apps, or expensive toys to boost your toddler's brain development! Research shows that the best way for toddlers to learn is through daily, active play- and Retro Toddler includes more than 100 fun, age-appropriate, "old-school"... |
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Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Daniel Smith - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence.... |
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Perfect Chaos: A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her
Linea Johnson - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Johnsons were a close and loving family living in the Seattle area - two parents, two incomes, two bright and accomplished daughters. They led busy lives filled with music lessons, college preparation, career demands, and laughter around the dinner table. Then the younger daughter,... |
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
Patrick Cockburn - Scribner; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton England and nearly drowned Voices he said had urged him to do it Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan journalist Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife... |
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Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
Guy Winch Ph.D. - Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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First aid for failure Although we have bandages for cuts, chicken soup for colds, and ice packs for bruises, most of us have no idea how to treat day-to-day emotional injuries such as failure, rejection, and loss. But, as Guy Winch, Ph.D., points out, these kinds of emotional injuries... |
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Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights into How You Think
G. Wayne Miller - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING contribution to the literature on human personality, a celebrated psychologist and an award-winning author offer a novel way to learn about how each of us thinks. For the past fifty years, popular culture has led us to believe in the left brain vs. right brain theory... |
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The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar - Twelve; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes... |
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The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All
Nick Tasler - Touchstone; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In his work as research and development director at cutting-edge think tank TalentSmart, Nick Tasler realized that the recent discovery by scientists of a potential-seeking gene could have a remarkable impact on how we understand decision making. Those who have this gene – about... |
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Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves, First Edition
Ph.D. James Hollis - Gotham; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Working with the Shadow is not working with evil, per se. It is working toward the possibility of greater wholeness. We will never experience healing until we can come to love our unlovable places, for they, too, ask love of us. How is it that good people do bad things? Why is our personal... |
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A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
Hara Estroff Marano - Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Wake up, America: We’re raising a nation of wimps.Hara Marano, editor-at-large and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, has been watching a disturbing trend: kids are growing up to be wimps. They can’t make their own decisions, cope with anxiety, or handle difficult... |
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Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change
Michelle Gielan - Benbella Books
Format: Hardcover
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We are all broadcasters. And the messages we choose to broadcast predict our success.All of us constantly broadcast information to others, even when we don't say a word. Sales professionals broadcast to potential clients in a way that wins new business. Managers broadcast to their teams... |
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Craving: Why We Can't Seem to Get Enough
Omar Manejwala - Hazelden; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A nationally recognized expert on compulsive behaviors explains the phenomenon of craving and gives us tools to achieve freedom from our seemingly insatiable desires by changing our actions to remap our brains.When we find ourselves wanting something strong enough, we'll do just about... |
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Reboot Your Brain: A Natural Approach to Fight Memory Loss, Dementia,
Gary Null - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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As of 2013, there are 93 million people over the age of forty-seven living in America. They make up the largest group of aging people in our country’s history. Many of those individuals are overweight or obese, eat a poor diet, and experience a high-stress lifestyle, leading to a range... |
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind." -- Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question,... |
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
David Shields - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact,... |
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Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia
Kristina Morgan - Hazelden
Format: Print book
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Experience the inner world of a woman with schizophrenia in this brutally honest, lyrical memoir.Have you ever wondered what it is like in the mind of a person with schizophrenia? How can one survive day after day unable to distinguish between one's inner nightmares and the everyday... |
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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Daniel J. Siegel MD - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times-bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding.Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening,... |
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War and peace
Leo Tolstoy graf; Aylmer Maude; Louise Maude - Duke Classics
Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Napoleon's turbulent history with Russia including his doomed 1812 invasion provides the setting for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Often referred to as the greatest novel of all time, Tolstoy's classic follows the tumultuous personal lives of two aristocratic families touching... |
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Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
Robert Emmons - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; None edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first major study of gratitude that shows how “wanting what we have” can measurably change people’s lives. Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? Robert Emmons—editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology—examines... |
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60 on Up: The Truth About Aging in America
Lillian B. Rubin - Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Golden Years? Youve got to be kidding. Part serious, part comic, these words reflect our ambivalence about aging in the twenty-first century. Is it a blessing or a curse? With refreshing candor and characteristic wit, best-selling author Lillian Rubin looks deeply into the issues of our graying... |
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Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society
Nortin M. Hadler M.D. - The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of "successful aging" and "long... |
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What is Autism?: Understanding Life with Autism or Asperger's
Chantal Sicile-Kira - Turner; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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International autism advocate and bestselling author Chantal Sicile-Kira provides this simple, concise explanation of one of the most prevalent disorders in America.Each year, 1 in every 100 children in America are diagnosed with autism. Although autism has reached epidemic proportions,... |
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
Benjamin Nugent - Scribner; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal nerd? Where did the modern jock... |
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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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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J Ellis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists... |
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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 Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life
Michael Gurian - Jossey-Bass; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Michael Gurian's blockbuster bestseller The Wonder of Boys is the bible for mothers, fathers, and educators on how to understand and raise boys. It has sold over 400,000 copies, been translated into 17 languages, and sells over 25,000 every year, which is more than any other book on boys... |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell - Back Bay
Format: Hardcover
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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in... |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder For Dummies
Charles H Elliott - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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Arguably one of the most complex emotional disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is surprisingly common. Furthermore, most people at some time in their lives exhibit a smattering of OCD-like symptoms. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies sorts out the otherwise curious and confusing... |
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Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health
Michael Breus - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever tossed and turned the night away, panicking as each hour passed that you will never fall asleep Have you ever been late for work because you hit the snooze button too many times Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt you looked older than you are If so, the promise of Good... |
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel Goleman - HarperCollins Canada
Format: Hardcover
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In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.Combining cutting-edge research with practical... |
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Eat Q: Unlock the Weight-Loss Power of Emotional Intelligence
Susan Albers - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Susan Albers, Psy.D. presents a groundbreaking three-step program for conquering emotional eating—a practical, prescriptive, proactive approach using Emotional Intelligence that will help you slim down, eat healthfully and mindfully, and keep the pounds off.Introduced by the author... |
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Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality
Rebecca Housel - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The first look at the philosophy behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight seriesBella and Edward, and their family and friends, have faced countless dangers and philosophical dilemmas in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels. This book is the first to explore them, drawing on the wisdom... |
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Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
Katherine Angel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of O Magazine’s Must-Read Books for June 2013A provocative and personal meditation on sex, power, and female desireToday’s women, we’re told, have more options in exercising their desire than ever before in history. And yet the way we talk about desire... |
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The Philosophy Book
DK -
The Philosophy Book
Paperback
– 2011
Format: Book
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This is an innovative and accessible guide to more than 2,000 years of thought. To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting - "The Philosophy Book" changes all that. With the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, succinct quotations, and explanations... |
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary
Robert Rowland Smith - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Have breakfast with Socrates, go to work with Nietzsche, head to the gym with Foucault, then have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir). Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith whisks you through an ordinary day with history's most extraordinary thinkers, explaining... |
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Margaret Atwood - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain--or excuse!--their activities, looking... |
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The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
Tavis Smiley - SmileyBooks; 0002- edition
Format: Print book
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Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation-these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor. Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley... |
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My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey
Norman Bussel - Pegasus Books; 1 edition
Format: Bargain Price]
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The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. 1944: Norm Bussel, an introspective and happy-go-lucky teen from Memphis, finds himself bailing out of a burning B-17 bomber just months after his 19th birthday. Touching-down in a field... |
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Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
Janelle M. Caponigro MA - New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Bipolar disorder is not only one of the most difficult mental health issues to treat, but also one of the most stigmatized and misunderstood. For these reasons, a diagnosis of bipolar is a major turning point in a person’s life. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed helps... |
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It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent: Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development
Janis Clark Johnston - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though we're unaware of those influences at times. connecting... |
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Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split
Laurie Perry - HCI; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced... |
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Plato's Republic (Books That Changed the World)
Simon Blackburn - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city — and the perfect mind — laid the foundations... |
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Quick Steps to Resolving Trauma
Bill O'Hanlon - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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A friendly and brief guide to trauma resolution. Here, Bill O'Hanlon uses his characteristic breezy and inviting style to tackle a very difficult issue: trauma resolution. This book details a philosophy and methods of working briefly and effectively with traumatized clients. Simple... |
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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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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
JEN WAITE - Plume
Format: Paperback
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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 honesty and deft... |
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Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
Suzanne O'Malley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it. As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah,... |
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D Levitt - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have... |
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The Handy Psychology Answer Book
Lisa J Cohen - Visible Ink Press
Format: Print book
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Bridging the gap between the entertainment-focused "pop psychology" on television and the dry academic research that is published in journals, The Handy Psychology Answer Book helps answer why humans do what we do through accurate scientific data presented in a lively,... |
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The Force Unleashed
Sean Williams - LucasBooks; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“The Sith always betray one another. . . . I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.”The overthrow of the Republic is complete. The Separatist forces have been smashed, the Jedi Council nearly decimated, and the rest of the Order all but destroyed. Now absolute power... |
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Good Kids, Tough Choices: How Parents Can Help Their Children Do the Right Thing
Rushworth M. Kidder - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness" Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity... |
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Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
Jacob M. Held - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems;... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
Andrea Petersen - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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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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Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog
Cesar Millan - Harmony; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The training book you've been waiting for from the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer Your dog just doesn't seem to listen. You've been through obedience training, but he still can't seem to master the most basic commands. And nothing... |
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food... |
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Lifescripts: What to Say to Get What You Want in Life's Toughest Situations
Stephen M. Pollan - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Excerpt from Lifescript #1: Asking for a Salary Increase Icebreaker: I’d like to thank you for the opportunity you and the company have given me. I recognize that you’ve been very influential in my growth and advancement. However, I have a problem that I need your help with.... |
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The
Dan Ariely - Harper; Honest edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fascinating and provocative, Ariely's The Truth About Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception and willpower. Internationally bestselling author Ariely pulls no punches when it comes to home truths. Previous titles PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL and THE UPSIDE... |
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Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race
Todd G. Buchholz - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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We think we will be happy when we have some downtime-when we can finally go on vacation, disconnect, shut down. But in this provocative book, Todd Buchholz will convince you that what you really want is to chase your tail-even if you never catch it. Weaving in everything from neuroeconomics... |
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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
Stephan M D Guyenet - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years,... |
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A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Nassir Ghaemi - Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An investigation into the surprisingly deep correlation between mental illness and successful leadership, as seen through some of historys greatest politicians, generals, and businesspeople. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University... |
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No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America
Elizabeth D. Samet - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peaceElizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed Soldier's Heart, came to question... |
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The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
Michael S. Malone - St. Martin's Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and the accomplishment of complex tasks. Human civilization... |
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What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A San Francisco Chronicleand Kirkus Best Book of the YearA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of readinghow we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when... |
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Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner
David DeSteno - Harmony; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? What could drive a person to blow a family fortune at the blackjack tables? Or have you ever pondered... |
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Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives
Marilee Strong - Jossey-Bass
Format: Hardcover
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Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a "hot-blooded," spur-of-the-moment crime of passion, as domestic homicide... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychology, 4th Edition
Joni E Johnston - Alpha Books
Format: Print book
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Mind over matter. Interest in psychology extends well beyond the walls of academia. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and William James are just a few examples of the many people in psychology whose works remain popular sellers, demonstrating an ongoing vast interest in this field. From students... |
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The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health
Daniel Freeman - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Every day millions of people struggle with psychological and emotional problems. The Stressed Sex sets out to answer a simple, but crucial, question are rates of psychological disorder different for men and women? To date, this important issue has been largely ignored in debates focused... |
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