|
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World
ERICA BENNER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli, the most misunderstood thinker of all time, fought to change his corrupt world.Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Widowed
Joyce Brothers - Simon and Schuster
Format: Book
|
|
In 1989, Dr. Joyce Brothers's husband of more than thirty years, Dr. Milton Brothers, passed away. As a widow, Dr. Brothers found herself emotionally lost and alone, at sea in an ocean of grief -- until she dealt with her despair, overcame her loneliness, and, gradually, put her life... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
Ford Madox Ford - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog
Cesar Millan - Three Rivers Press
Format: Book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain
Dana Suskind - Dutton
Format: Print book
|
|
The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important - and astoundingly simple - thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Meg Jay - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal": those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.Whether it is bullying, the loss of a parent to divorce or death, an alcoholic or mentally... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
Stephanie Rosenbloom - Viking
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of travelling soloIn our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
|
|
While it seems that news about the opioid epidemic has been running non-stop for the past several years, the deluge of reports can make it difficult to remember exactly where and how the trouble started. Beth Macy’s book Dopesick takes the reader all the way back to 1996,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
Craig Storti - Nicholas Brealey
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30+ years with quotations, insights, reflections... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
Shefali Tsabary - Viking
Format: Hardcover
|
|
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." - Oprah WinfreyAs seen on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Amy Herman - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
|
|
"Sharp and original, this book should alter how readers look at the world. " - Kirkus "This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book will make you see the world more clearly than you ever have before. And that clarity will transform how you deal with the challenges and opportunities... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
Michael S Gazzaniga - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"The father of cognitive neuroscience" illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff" -- atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells -- create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
Louis Fischer - Vintage; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma ("great soul"), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation's own civil rights movement. Taken... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pensees
Blaise Pascal - Penguin
Format: eBook
|
|
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penses is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Suzanne O'Sullivan - Other Press
Format: Print book
|
|
A neurologist's insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders, told through individual case histories It's happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when a certain someone walks by. But few of us realize... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
UMBERTO ECO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco. Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
|
|
In this superb work of literary true crime - a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense - a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear - Avery
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The instant New York Times bestsellerTiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsNo matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time
ALLEN GANNETT - Currency
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm
Rosalie Greenberg - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Once considered an adult illness, bipolar disorder (manic depression) is one of the fastest growing categories in child psychiatry since ADHD, touching the lives of an estimated one million children. But often it goes misdiagnosed, and children can be prescribed medication that only worsens... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer - New Harbinger Publications/ Noetic Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul—now a #1 New York Times bestseller—offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. Whether this is your... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction
Lance M. M.D. Dodes - Harper Collins Publishers India; Original edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
Finally a road map to recovery from the nation's most original thinker on addiction In his revolutionary book The Heart of Addiction, Dr. Lance Dodes examined the underlying emotions that drive addictive behaviors whether drinking, gambling, sex, or eating. Now, in Breaking Addiction,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Ann Hulbert - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M Pirsig - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
|
|
A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterA narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
William Poundstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most cant find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leaderIn Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"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."... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
Andrew Clark - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's well-being? How would policy change if well-being were the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
ANYA KAMENETZ - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
HELEN THOMSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
Daniel Bergner - Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
John Mordechai Gottman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
|
|
A world-renowned relationship expert shares his research about love and what it takes to develop a trustful, intimate, and emotionally fulfilling bond.In this insightful book, celebrated research psychologist and couples counselor John Gottman plumbs the mysteries of love and shares the results... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
HECTOR GARCIA - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." - Japanese proverb According... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett Fischer
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the Unite |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY - Random House
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Elaine N. Aron - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Are you a highly sensitive person? Discover how to better understand yourself and create a fuller, richer life with the help of a clinical psychologist - now with a new authors note with updated research."To say this book changed my life would be an understatement.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias
Jane Velez-Mitchell - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexanders... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
|
|
The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder - Ecco
Format: Print book
|
|
A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography
David Ulrich - Watson-Guptill
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
JOHN MEDINA - Pear Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was a professor of philosophy when he joined the French Army at the outbreak of World War II. Captured by the Germans, he was released, after nearly a year, in 1941. He immediately joined the French resistance as a journalist. In the postwar era Jean-Paul Sartre... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
|
|
Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A start-to-finish narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post) . As our approach to mental illness has oscillated from biological to psychoanalytical and back again, so have our treatments.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromPlenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"A work of splendid richness and depth." -- Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look Anesthetize: to render insensible First there's the injection, then the countdown -- and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Leading for School Librarians: There Is No Other Option
Hilda K Weisburg - Neal-Schuman Publishers
Format: Paperback
|
|
With the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) , school libraries are poised for a potential turnaround. But there's only one way forward: school librarians must become leaders, fully interwoven into the fabric of the educational community. And to become a truly effective... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
StrengthsFinder 2.0
Tom Rath - Gallup Press
Format: Print book
|
|
Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction. We all know how identities -- notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion -- are at the root... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President
Don Fulsom - Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A veteran White House reporter reveals our 37th president was even more sinister and haunted than we knew.Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our most disgraced president, but the American people never knew the full extent of his demons, deceptions, paranoia, prejudices, hatreds,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
|
|
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
Gary Rogowski - Linden Publishing
Format: Paperback
|
|
"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters) ." --Nick Offerman In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life
Laura James - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A sensory portrait of an autistic mind From childhood, Laura James knew she was different. She struggled to cope in a world that often made no sense to her, as though her brain had its own operating system. It wasn't until she reached her forties that she found out why: Suddenly and surprisingly,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Prince
George Anthony Bull - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccol Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir
Mark Lukach - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
|
|
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Common Good
Robert B Reich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book
|
|
A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dolly Chugh - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at GoogleAn inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, on how to confront difficult issues... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Santiago Zabala - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Somebody with a Little Hammer
Mary Gaitskill - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
|
|
From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural and personal. Whether she's writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her subjects... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert - Vintage
Format: Paperback
|
|
• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?• Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? • Why do dining companions insist on ordering different... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya L Chemaly - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about."... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite - Plume
Format: Hardcover
|
|
**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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York TimesA memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression
EDWARD BULLMORE - Picador
Format: Hardcover
|
|
As seen on "CBS This Morning" Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
|
|
One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi
ARUN GANDHI - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Kieran Setiya - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future?... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Anthony Gottlieb - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
|
|
The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. "Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
Janelle Hanchett - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein presents a how-to guide rooted in two traditions, Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better lifeOur ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy
CRIS BEAM - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
I Hate You--Dont Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Jerold J. Kreisman - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
|
|
A revised and updated edition of the bestselling guide to understanding borderline personality disorder. . After more than two decades as the essential guide to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) , this new edition now reflects the most up- to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
Stephan M D Guyenet - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
|
|
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,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
