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Calmer, Easier, Happier Boys
Noel Janis-Norton - Yellow Kite
Format: Paperback
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Simple strategies for bringing out the best in boys In Calmer Easier Happier Boys, parenting expert Noel Janis-Norton explains simple strategies for the unique challenges of raising motivated, cooperative and confident boys.Using the foolproof techniques Noel has developed over many years... |
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Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate
Sue Scheff - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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"Engaging, sharp, and important -- Shame Nation will inspire you to open your eyes and be better." -- Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions and Deputy Director of Intelligence on CBS' HuntedIn today's digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away. A rogue tweet... |
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Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno
Raymond Geuss - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking... |
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Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen
WENDY JONES - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austen's intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligence -- and how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection. Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read... |
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The Art of the Donald: Lessons from America's Philosopher-in-Chief
Christopher Bedford - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Motivational self-help advice from President Donald Trump, covering everything from leadership and self-confidence to how to succeed in business.President Donald Trump knows about living the good life and achieving success. With his election to the presidency, he added to a life that already... |
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The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
David M Buss - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than... |
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Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician
Michael Ellis - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact... |
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Chris Clearfield - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems--from social media to air travel--this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life"Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Lauren Slater - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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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.... |
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How to End the Autism Epidemic
J.B. Handley - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue's co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what's causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a society in order to end it. While many... |
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Dr. Ronald Epstein M.D. - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.. As a third-year Harvard Medical... |
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi
ARUN GANDHI - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
Brooke Gladstone - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Reality. It used to seem so simple - reality just was, like the weather. Why question it, let alone disagree about it? And then came the assault, an unending stream of "fake news," "alternative facts," and lies disguised as truths that is overwhelming our notions... |
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Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists
Craig Malkin - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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When most of us hear the word narcissism or narcissist, we envision vain, preening, braggarts who can't stop talking about themselves. But most of the time, we've got it wrong; many narcissists aren't driven by looks,fame, or money - some may even be shy or soft spoken. The startling truth... |
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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day
Ken Mogi - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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Introducing IKIGAI: find your passions and live with joyIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as "your reason to get up in the morning." Ikigai can be small moments: the morning air, a cup of coffee, a compliment. It can also be deep convictions: a fulfilling job,... |
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Unspoken Legacy: Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Addiction within the Family
Claudia Black - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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A far-ranging examination of how the effects of addiction and trauma in the family can reverberate for generationsTrauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child. These injuries typically produce long-term and harmful generational consequences... |
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Women and Madness
Phyllis Chesler - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's... |
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Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismissed with a yawn? Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived... |
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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
Rick Hanson - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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These days it's hard to count on the world outside. So it's vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion - the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every... |
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Earth
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a "blue marble," "a blue... |
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Becoming who I am : young men on being gay
Ritch C Savin-Williams - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Proud, happy, grateful gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising only a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, seem skeptical about this sea change in perceptions and attitudes. Even in an age of growing tolerance, coming out as gay is supposed... |
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice
Martha Craven Nussbaum - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel... |
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Purposeful Retirement: The Baby Boomers' Guide to a New Level of Happiness
Hyrum W. Smith - Mango
Format: Print book
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You've had a successful life and career by almost all measures. Now, you're retiring. You are definitely not a couch potato and need something meaningful and inspiring for your second act. Is there a way to make intelligent choices? Can you learn from the lives and experiences of people... |
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir
Mark Lukach - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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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.... |
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The Sex Effect: Baring Our Complicated Relationship with Sex
Ross Benes - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping exploration of the relationship between sex and our society, with a foreword by bestselling author A.J. JacobsWhy do political leaders become entangled in so many sex scandals? How did the U.S. military inadvertently help make San Francisco a mecca of gay culture? And what was the original... |
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Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL's Guide
BRANDON WEBB - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb comes a simple yet powerful five-step guide to transforming your life by making your fears work for you instead of against you.Brandon Webb has run life-threatening missions in the world's worst trouble spots,... |
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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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American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants
Robert E. Bartholomew - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This historical review of the US treatment of immigrants and minority groups documents the suspicion and persecution that often met newcomers and those perceived to be different.Contrary to popular belief, the poor and huddled masses were never welcome in America. Though the engraving on the base... |
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What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Get Ready for Kindergarten
E. D. Hirsch Jr. - Delta
Format: Paperback
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Give your child a smart start with What Your Preschooler Needs to Know Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy,... |
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius - Penguin Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithWorld-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith’s distinctive, award-winning... |
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Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
Bruce D. Perry - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children - and outlines the path to recovery. How does trauma affect a childs mind - and how can that mind recover?... |
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5 Steps to Assertiveness: How to Communicate with Confidence and Get What You Want
S Renee Smith - Althea Press
Format: Paperback
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5 Steps to Assertiveness is the modern how-to guide to communicate with assertiveness and build stronger relationships in today's world.Assertiveness goes beyond standing up for yourself. Assertiveness is saying what you want in a way that makes others want to listen. This philosophy... |
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The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Damion Searls - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories... |
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Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
Thomas Weber - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
STACY HORN - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Critical Thinking Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day
LLC Editors of LearningExpress - Learningexpress, LLC; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Become an effective critical thinker in just 20 minutes a day! Whether at work, at school, or at home, critical thinking skills are essential for success. Learning to think critically will improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, giving you the tools you need to tackle the tough... |
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The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
Leonard Sax - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their authority. The result is children who have no standard of right and wrong, who lack discipline,... |
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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy
Bonnie St John - Center Street
Format: Print book
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Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day--every day. As leadership consultants and executive trainers, Bonnie St. John and Allen P. Haines have heard the same complaints from clients for years; periodic burnout, lack of focus... |
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Be Feel Think Do: A Memoir
ANNE BERUBE - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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At the age of 23, modern-day shaman and inspirational speaker Anne Brub's life was interrupted by a near fatal car accident and mystical experience. Trapped in the car, unable to breathe, she had a vision that forever realigned her life's trajectory. The following years were marked... |
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"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."... |
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How the Child's Mind Develops
David Cohen - Routledge
Format: Hardcover
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How do we get from helpless baby to knowing teenager? What impact do television, computers and iPads, the internet, video games and evolving technology have on the way children's minds develop? Is cognition a question of learning and environment or of heredity? How we learn to think,... |
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Idiot's Guides: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Eileen Bailey - ALPHA
Format: Print book
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions and negative behaviors through goal setting and various coping techniques, such as meditation, visualization, relaxation, mindfulness, and more. Idiot's Guides: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps... |
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The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. - DK
Format: Paperback
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Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas with straightforward text, witty illustrations, and vocabulary glossary that demystify an often daunting subject matter. Now in paperback.The Psychology Book looks at the biggest... |
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The Listening Cure: Healing Secrets of an Unconventional Doctor
Chris Gilbert - SelectBooks
Format: Paperback
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This book is about new and effective ways to address disease that aren't commonly used by our physicians. Dr. Chris Gilbert demonstrates that our bodies speak to us all the time. Through symptoms such as fatigue, joint pain, abdominal pain, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms, our bodies... |
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Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
Joe Moran - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment... |
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The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, The Philosophy Book explores the history and concepts of philosophy, and demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter.Are the ideas of Ren Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes still relevant today The Philosophy Book unpacks the writings... |
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Logic: A Complete Introduction
Siu-Fan Lee - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Understand Logic is a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating though sometimes challenging subject. As well as looking at logic in theoretical terms the book considers its everyday uses and demonstrates how it has genuine practical applications. It will take you step by step through... |
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Freud: In His Time and Ours
Elisabeth Roudinesco - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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lisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century -- a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly... |
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The Sociopath Next Door
Martha Stout - Harmony
Format: Paperback
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Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize... |
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Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving
JEFF EMMERSON - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD... |
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Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride
David DeSteno - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering psychologist reveals how three emotions can provide the surest, quickest route to success in any realm. A string of bestsellers have alerted us to the importance of grit - an ability to persevere and control one's impulses that is so closely associated with greatness.... |
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Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
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Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the opposition is epidemic today, from countries refusing to negotiate, to politicians pandering to their base. Social media has produced... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said... |
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Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Ann Hulbert - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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They'll Never Be the Same: A Parent's Guide to PTSD in Youth
Michael S Scheeringa - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback
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A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents... |
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” and “America’s bestselling book on women’s health,” the comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual... |
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
ANDREA PETERSEN - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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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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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Edith Hall - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesAristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more... |
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The Hope Circuit: A Psychologists Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
Martin E P Seligman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past... |
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Souvenir
Rolf Potts - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural... |
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Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness
STEPHEN HINSHAW - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Glenn Close says: "Another Kind of Madness is one of the best books I've read about the cost of stigma and silence in a family touched by mental illness. I was profoundly moved by Stephen Hinshaw's story, written beautifully, from the inside-out. It's a masterpiece."A deeply... |
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Anne Harrington - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry's quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder... |
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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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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Todays inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means.... |
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Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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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,... |
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The Good, the True and the Beautiful: A Quest for Meaning
Michael Boylan - Continuum
Format: Print book
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Why should we be good? How do we know what is true? What defines beauty? The Good, the True and the Beautiful asks critical questions about who we are and what makes life worthwhile. Michael Boylan offers a stimulating introduction to philosophy, exploring issues to do with ethics, knowledge... |
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
GEORGE YANCY - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "Dear White America" asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback... |
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What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should: Applications to Daily Life
JEFFREY KOTTLER - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity... |
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Idiot's Guides: Psychology, 5th Edition
Joni E. Johnston Psy.D. - Alpha Books
Format: Paperback
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Authored by a clinical psychologist, Idiot's Guides: Psychology, Fifth Edition, breaks down all of the complexity of the human mind. Key concepts are explained in plain and simple language, and are supplemented with insightful infographics that help explain each concept in a visual... |
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Infidelity: Why Men and Women Cheat
KENNETH PAUL ROSENBERG - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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What the latest science tells us about the brain's reward systems, love, and sex--and how to prevent an affair from destroying your lifeIn both genders and across age groups, infidelity is on the rise. People often cheat in a haze of delusion, believing that it will bring them real... |
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A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
William H Reid - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found. On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere... |
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What's My Child Thinking?
Eileen Kennedy-Moore - DK
Format: Paperback
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Make every moment with your child count. Tap into the psychology behind your child's behavior at every stage of development, and respond with confidence.Find out what your child really means when he says "Look what I did", "But I'm not tired," or "You're embarrassing... |
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In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not fearedWe've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often... |
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Big Ideas: The Little Book of Psychology
DK. - DK
Format: Paperback
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A compact, portable introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind psychology laid out in DK's signature visual style--the ultimate guide to understanding psychology on the go.Take Freud to your fiesta! This compact guide enables you to explore more than 100 groundbreaking... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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Yawn: Adventures in Boredom
Mary Mann - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback
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The incisive and often hilarious story of one of our most interesting cultural phenomena: boredomIt's the feeling your grandma told you was only experienced by boring people. Some people say they're dying of it; others claim to have killed because of it. It's a key component... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." - Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take"Engrossing." - New York TimesFrom... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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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... |
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Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book
William Paul White - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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What does your baby want to say? You can find out-even before your baby can verbally speak-by using baby sign language. Signs of a Happy Baby gives parents everything they need to start signing with their baby, including a comprehensive dictionary with easy-to-follow photos of fun and practical... |
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The Dysfunctional Library: Challenges and Solutions to Workplace Relationships
Jo Henry - American Library Association
Format: Paperback
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Frankly, it's not something we like to talk about. There is an unfortunate stigma to acknowledging workplace dysfunction, let alone trying to grapple with the problem. But negative behaviors such as incivility, toxicity, deviant behavior, workplace politics, and team and leadership... |
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Fake Missed Connections
Brett Fletcher Lauer - Soft Skull Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Your wife is having an affair with my husband. It has caused some trouble in my marriage and I thought you should know.One phone call in December 2005 begins the compelling, unpredictable story of Fake Missed Connections. A child of divorce with an already fragile sense of trust, Lauer... |
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Soraya L Chemaly - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"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."... |
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Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism
Eugene Thacker - Repeater
Format: Paperback
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The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught... |
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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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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
David A Greenwood - Sterling
Format: Print book
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We know that Attention Deficit Disorder makes it tough for children to focus in school. But what happens when those kids grow up? How can they make the transition to a successful professional life? And how can newly diagnosed adults meet the challenges of the workplace? David Greenwood,... |
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First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
Sarah Wilson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that Ive ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah... |
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
INGRID ROSSELLINI - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity
Charles Duhigg - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating book that explores the science of productivity, and why managing how you think is more important than what you think - with an appendix of real-world lessons to apply to your life. At the core of Smarter... |
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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
John A Bargh - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a groundbreaking book, twenty years in the making, which gives us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.For more than three decades, Dr. John... |
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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"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,... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Bren Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step... |
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The Politics of Autism
Lynn W Adams - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge. Is there really more autism? How has the count expanded by diagnosing autism over other conditions? Have scientific methodsin... |
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Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years
Helen E. Johnson - Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press; Second Edition, Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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This completely revised and updated edition of Dont Tell Me What To Do Just Send Money prepares parents for the issues that they will encounter during their childrens college years Since our original publication over ten years ago there has been a dramatic increase in the use of cell phone... |
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The Common Good
Robert B Reich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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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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Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide
Marc J Hetherington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which... |
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Idiot's Guides: Philosophy, Fourth Edition
Jay Stevenson Ph.D. - ALPHA; 4 edition
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A newly visual approach, this updated edition will include infographics, photos, and pull quotes to help reinforce learning of the subject of philosophy. Beginning with the pre-Socratics and Eastern philosophers, all of the major schools of thought are covered. Content includes religious... |
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
Meg Jay - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED Books)
Dan Ariely - Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation - showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.. Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much... |
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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
JERRY CLARK - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted... |
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Iris Grace: How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Arabella Carter-Johnson - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her.One day,... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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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.... |
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