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Your Brain on Plants: The Authoritative Guide to Herbs for Mood and Mind

Nicolette Perry - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

By expert authors in both medicinal herbs and neuroscience - an unprecedented, highly informative, plant-by-plant guide to improving mind, mood, and memoryThe importance of mental and physical health, separately and together, is rising in the consciousness of Western and alternative medicine,...
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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,...
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VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT - 1828 PR
Format: Hardcover


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The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius

Gail Saltz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be "disabilities," revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths. In The Power of Different, psychiatrist...
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Loving You Is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection

Laura PhD Copley PhD - Balance
Format: Hardcover

At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As a licensed professional counselor and trauma researcher, Dr. Laura Copley often found herself disturbed by the stigma that her profession puts on trauma survivors who are in these toxic bonds, often...
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses

Guy Leschziner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover


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Playing a New Game: A Black Woman's Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace

Tammy L Wilborn - Balance
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on first-hand clinical insight and scientific research, Dr. Wilborn offers much-needed advice on how women of color can be high-performing and successful professionally, without sacrificing their physical, mental, and emotional wellness. Black and brown women have been making profound...
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The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope

José Andrés - Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés's beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK) , which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword from Stephen Colbert.....
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Positive Discipline for Preschoolers: For Their Early Years--Raising Children Who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful

Jane Nelsen - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Completely updated to report the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will teach you how to use methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult...
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Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

Martin Puchner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume.What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past?...
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