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The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
Chantel Spring Prat - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what's average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks... |
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey... |
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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"Drop the flashcards - grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call." - People Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes... |
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change,... |
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,... |
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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Ben Shapiro - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build - and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even... |
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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