Back Psychology & Philosophy | February Newsletter

Simple News Pro
  Psychology & Philosophy  
Helping the Good Do Better: How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change

Thomas Sheridan - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

How to effect positive social change by the top progressive white hat lobbyist in Washington.HELPING THE GOOD DO BETTER pulls back the curtain on the corridors of power in Washington to reveal how social change really happens. This book offers lessons from the trenches on how some of this...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Courage To Thrive: Triumph in the Face of Adversity

Stephen Trudeau - Royce Publishing
Format: Paperback

Dr. Stephen Trudeau, otherwise known as the Psych on the Bike, answers a very important question. "How does one overcome adversity and trauma?" By recounting personal stories and sharing the wisdom of countless thrivers, he brings the reader to a place of empowerment. Triumph...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders

Stacey Radin Dr. - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

An empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate, and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the middle school years.After years of research as a psychologist and consultant for women struggling in the professional world, Stacey Radin made a groundbreaking...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

Michele J Gelfand - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers celebrated cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Basic Books
Format: Print book

For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

STEPHEN HINSHAW - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs

LLOYD SEDERER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use

Randy J Paterson - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Print book

In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which - if followed - are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere!There are stacks upon...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel

Sian Beilock - Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning scientist offers a groundbreaking new understanding of the mind-body connection and its profound impact on everything from advertising to romance.The human body is not just a passive device carrying out messages sent by the brain, but rather an integral part of how we think...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

Dr. Ronald Epstein M.D. - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Ashtray:

Errol Morris - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation...
Read More check catalog
 
 
American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It

RYAN HAMPTON - All Points Books
Format: Print book

Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution?...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception

Joseph T. Hallinan - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves.   To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is...
Read More check catalog
 
 
What Philosophy Can Do

Gary Gutting - W W Norton
Format: Print book

"A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity." -- Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone ReaderHow can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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."...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

Matthew Stewart - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award.Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Getting Ahead of ADHD: What Next-Generation Science Says about Treatments That Work―and How You Can Make Them Work for Your Child

Joel T. Nigg PhD - The Guilford Press
Format: 1st Edition

Does toxic pollution cause attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ? What about screen use? Are alternative treatments worth exploring? Can dietary changes help? From leading ADHD researcher Joel T. Nigg, this book presents exciting treatment advances grounded in the new science...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore

Kent Hoffman RelD - Guilford
Format: Print book

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

YASCHA MOUNK - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.Two core components of liberal democracy -- individual rights and the popular will -- are increasingly...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Middlepause: On Life After Youth

Marina Benjamin - Catapult
Format: Print book

The Middlepause offers a vision of contentment in middle age, without sentiment or delusion. Marina Benjamin weighs the losses and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature, science, philosophy, and her own experience. Spurred by her surgical propulsion into...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream

Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love and Learn to Be Individuals

Steven Jay Fogel - Rocky Pines Press
Format: Hardcover

Do you sometimes resent your twin and then feel guilty about it? Are you frustrated that no one understands what it's like to be a twin? People think being a twin is mysterious, fun, and magical, but in reality, twin relationships can be difficult to navigate.The Same but Different...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939

Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man who has become the personification of evil. Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood and his failures...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick

David A. Carbonell PhD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

It's time to outsmart your worry and anxiety. Drawing on the same cutting-edge psychology presented in author David Carbonell's The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers ten powerful "counter-intuitive" strategies to help you put worry in its place - anytime,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk

Allison Schrager - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take a chance and keep the extra money?Most people wouldn't expect...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Cleveland Clinic Guide to Epilepsy: Essential Reading for Families

Elaine Wyllie MD - Elaine Wyllie, MD
Format: Paperback

One in 10 Americans will experience a seizure in his or her lifetime. If you have had a seizure or if you're one of the 3 million Americans experiencing epilepsy, you might not know how best to cope with this common condition. Many myths surround epilepsy, and it's hard to separate...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime

Michael H. Stone MD - Prometheus
Format: Paperback

A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

Carolyn Purnell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Art of Reading

DAMON YOUNG - Scribe US
Format: Hardcover

'What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.' As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride

David DeSteno - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought

Tom Jackson - Shelter Harbor Press
Format: Hardcover

Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds

STEVE CASNER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions." - Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of HabitA safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Freud: In His Time and Ours

Elisabeth Roudinesco - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Natural Laws of Children: Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired

Celine Alvarez - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

A powerful, neuroscience-based approach to revolutionize early childhood learning through natural creativity, strong human connections, spontaneous free play, and more.All children are born wired to learn and to love. As young children explore the world and interact with others, their brains...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self

MANOUSH ZOMORODI - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you're not checking Facebook or Instagram? Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
ADHD: A Guide to Understanding Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Changes Over Time in Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Paul H Wender - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on over forty years of clinical and research experience, Paul Wender and new coauthor David A. Tomb have created a classic, definitive model for identifying and treating children and adults who have Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) .ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

Bryan Doerries - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. For years, theater director Bryan Doerries has led an innovative public health project that produces ancient tragedies for current...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging: Coping with Change

H Michael Zal - Lexington Books
Format: Print book

As the baby boomer generation becomes senior citizens and starts to flood into the last stage of life, a new definition and new expectations of retirement and aging are evolving. This is not your father's way of being an older adult. People today tend not to retire in a traditional...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

William Stixrud - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"An invaluable resource for the thinking parent." - Lisa Damour, bestselling author of UntangledA clinical neuropsychologist and test-prep guru combine cutting-edge brain science with insights from their work with families to make a radical case for giving kids more agency...
Read More check catalog
 
 
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road

Tavis Smiley - Smiley Books
Format: Hardcover

Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of convenience, of modern society's pressure to put yourself out there before you've even figured out what you really want. It's easy to lose yourself along the way, conforming to those around you, obsessing...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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."...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

Jill Filipovic - Nation Books
Format: Print book

What do women want? It's a time-old question, but if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you discover that what they want is happiness. Despite what recent books, articles, or tv shows would have you believe, real women are less concerned...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

Blaise Aguirre MD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

In this much-needed book, two renowned borderline personality disorder (BPD) experts offer simple, easy-to-use skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to help you address the most common issues of BPD, such as intense feelings of anger,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Range is an urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." - Daniel H. Pink What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts argue that anyone...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Abandon Me

Melissa Febos - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book

In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Origin of Others

TONI MORRISON - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves

Charles Fernyhough - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A luminous exploration of the nature of thoughts, from daydreams to the voices in our headsAt the moment you caught sight of this book, what were you thinking? Was your thought a stream of sensations? Or was it a voice in your head? Did you ask yourself, "I wonder what that's about?"...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation

Laura Kipnis - Metropolitan Books
Format: Book

From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the pageIt's no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

Scott Herring - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

The verb “declutter” has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it’s only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV programs and commercials,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Nicotine

Gregor Hens - Other Press
Format: Print book

By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker's meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brené Brown - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving

JEFF EMMERSON - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Passing Judgment: Praise and Blame in Everyday Life

TERRI APTER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Terri Apter reveals how everyday judgments impact our relationships and how praise, blame, and shame shape our sense of self.Do you know that praise is essential to the growth of a healthy brain? That experiences of praise and blame affect how long we live? That the conscious and unconscious...
Read More check catalog
 
 
But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.

Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

"But What If We re Wrong? " visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Night Call: Embracing Compassion and Hope in a Troubled World

Robert J Wicks - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medicine, nursing, education, psychotherapy, social work, ministry, and the military, the potential for a meaningful way of being may even become...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

Steven A Sloman - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

"The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom." - Steven PinkerWe all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us dont even know...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path

Ethan Nichtern - North Point Press
Format: Hardcover

A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachersDo you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

Carolyn Eckert - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book

With change happening faster and faster in our tech-ruled world, being able to think creatively, flexibly, and quickly is more important than ever. In Your Idea Starts Here, graphic designer Carolyn Eckert offers 77 specific questions, techniques, and exercises - cleverly combined...
Read More check catalog
 
 
In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Characters on the Couch: Exploring Psychology through Literature and Film

Dean A Haycock - Greenwood
Format: Print book

Our favorite fictional characters from books and movies often display an impressive and wide range of psychological attributes, both positive and negative. We admire their resilience, courage, humanity, or justice, and we are intrigued by other characters who show signs of personality disorders...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Looks Good on Paper?: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance

Leslie S. Pratch - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book

Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirical method...
Read More check catalog
 
 
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

JORDAN PETERSON - Random House Canada
Format: Hardcover

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Late-Life Love: A Memoir

SUSAN GUBAR - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging." -- Stephen GreenblattOn Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and Develop Real Self-Esteem

Eileen Kennedy-Moore PhD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Help your child cultivate real, lasting confidence! In Kid Confidence, a licensed clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help kids foster satisfying relationships, develop competence, and make choices that fit who they...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

Ayelet Waldman - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book

A revealing, courageous, fascinating, and funny account of the author's experiment with microdoses of LSD in an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, of her quest to understand a misunderstood drug, and of her search for a really good day. When a small vial arrives in her mailbox...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Conscience of a Conservative

ANONYMOUS. - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to bedrock conservative principle and a cry to once again put country before party. "I am a conservative....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us

Will Storr - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

By the author of The Unpersuadables, this thrilling and ambitious book explores the mysterious power of the self and reveals the danger of our modern obsession with it.We live in the age of the individual. Every day, we're bombarded with depictions of the beautiful, successful, slim, socially...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

Russ Harris - Shambhala
Format: Print book

The life-changing practice of applied mindfulness called ACT is made even more accessible in this fun and easy-to-understand volume that illustrates all the principles with entertaining cartoons.Theres this idea going around that were always supposed to be happyand its making us miserable....
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything

Lucy Hone - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being paralyzed by our grief is not. A growing body of research has revealed our capacity for resilient grieving, our innate ability to respond to traumatic loss by finding ways to grow - by becoming more engaged with our lives, and discovering...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Barron's GRE Psychology, 7th Edition

Laura Freberg - Barron's Educational Series; 7 edition
Format: Print book

Reflecting actual GRE Psychology exams, this manual presents five full-length model tests, with all questions answered and explained. Two of the book's five tests are diagnostics, designed to pinpoint students' weak areas that require more intensive study. The manual's extra...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

Will Durant - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years spent researching...
Read More check catalog
 
 
American Philosophy: A Love Story

John J Kaag - Farrar
Format: Print book

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Clair Brown - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living."Buddhist Economics will give guidance to all those who seek peace, fairness, and environmental...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Carol Tavris and Elliott Aronson - Mariner Books
Format: Book

This profound book answers some of the most vexing questions about human behavior. Why do horrible people insist that they are morally good? Why can some people behave so cruelly toward others, even to those who are most vulnerable? Why do people remember the same events differently? In...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving

Lisa Miller - Picador
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerUSA TODAY BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerIn The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World

Malene Rydahl - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Secrets From the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again

Traci Mann - Harper Wave
Format: Paperback

A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation's leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss.From her office in the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, professor...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide

GAYLE BRANDEIS - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones

Laurie Kahn - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

For three decades, Laurie Kahn has treated clients who were abused as children -- people who were injured by someone whom they believed to be trustworthy, someone who professed to love them. Their abusers -- a father, stepfather, priest, coach, babysitter, aunt, neighbor -- often were people...
Read More check catalog
 
 
What Love Is: And What It Could Be

Carrie Jenkins - Basic Books
Format: Print book

What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Stolen Child: A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Laurie Gough - Dundurn
Format: Print book

A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin. Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small...
Read More check catalog
 
 
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir

Ariel Leve - Harper
Format: Print book

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

Russell Brand - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow up to the New York Times bestseller Recovery...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters

Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit - that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Living with Robots

Paul Dumouchel - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Permission to Feel

Marc A Brackett - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale Universitys Child Study...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

Astra Taylor - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra Taylor, hailed as a "New Civil Rights Leader" (LA Times) , provides surprising answers.There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life

Dr. Dr. Bill Thomas - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

From one of the most original and innovative thinkers in medicine, this stirring and splendid book Wall Street Journal offers groundbreaking insight to the postwar generation on facing their second coming of age, a developmental opportunity to reshape their lives and our society. Dr. Thomas...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire

Frank Tallis - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"Writer and subject were rarely better matched. This is a brilliant, compelling book."--Ian McEwanIn The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Leaving the OCD Circus: Your Big Ticket Out of Having to Control Every Little Thing

Kirsten Pagacz - Conari Press
Format: Print book

"It's like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me." That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist on their first session when she was well into her 30s -- she'd been following orders from this mean taskmaster...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.

Junger Sebastian - Twelve
Format: Print book

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith L. Herman - Basic Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

Nancy Colier - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

Effective mindfulness practices for transforming your relationship with technology and reconnecting with your real life Our reliance on technology is rapidly changing how each of us experiences life. We're facing new issues and difficulties, we're encountering new emotional triggers,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Never Get Angry Again: The Foolproof Way to Stay Calm and in Control in Any Conversation or Situation

David J Lieberman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Never Get Angry Again is New York Times and internationally bestselling author David J. Lieberman's comprehensive, holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger, and a practical guide to what the reader can do to gain perspective.David...
Read More check catalog
 
 
On Truth

Simon Blackburn - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of linguistic or cultural vantage point?In...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves

LEE DANIEL KRAVETZ - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Picking up where The Tipping Point leaves off, respected journalist Lee Daniel Kravetz's Strange Contagion is a provocative look at both the science and lived experience of social contagion.In 2009, tragedy struck the town of Palo Alto: A student from the local high school had died...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Reshma Saujani - Currency
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies to Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress, and Worry

Sheila Achar Josephs PhD - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

"... thoughtful tools for helping young people help themselves." - Library Journal Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America

Daniel Horowitz - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one's own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety. Cultural...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

NADINE BURKE HARRIS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." - People"A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Mechanical Bride - Facsimile

Marshall McLuhan - Gingko Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book

This is the devastating book which first established Marshall McLuhan's reputation as the foremost critic of modern mass communications. The Mechanical Bride is vintage McLuhan so aptly illustrated by dozens of examples from ads, comic strips, columnists, etc., that those who were stung...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

MICHAEL HARRIS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

With a foreword from Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Shallows.Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

Damion Searls - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide

Deborah Serani - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal

Lux Alptraum - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying -- why myths about womens deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive, and - above all - untrustworthy....
Read More check catalog
 
 
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety

Sarah Wilson - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

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...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The happiness effect : how social media is driving a generation to appear perfect at any cost

Donna Freitas - Oxford University Press

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect

GREGORY SMITHSIMON - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about itWhen we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs

Joshua Wolf Shenk - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory synthesis of cultural history and social psychology that shows how one-to-one collaboration drives creative success Weaving the lives of scores of creative duosfrom John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Marie and Pierre Curie to Steve Jobs and Steve WozniakJoshua Wolf Shenk identifies...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing

Jamie Holmes - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

An illuminating look at the surprising upside of ambiguity - and how, properly harnessed, it can inspire learning, creativity, even empathy Life today feels more overwhelming and chaotic than ever. Whether it's a confounding work problem or a faltering relationship or an unclear medical...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Steven Poole - Scribner
Format: Print book

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch - from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem....
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Second Mountain

David Brooks - Random House
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to live a meaningful life, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to CharacterEvery so often, you meet a person who radiates joy. Who seems to know exactly why they were put on this earth, and glows with a kind...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, Revised Edition: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD

ROBERT O FRIEDEL - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

The authoritative guide to understanding and living with borderline personality disorder, now fully revised and updated Millions of Americans suffer from borderline personality disorder (BPD) , a psychiatric condition marked by extreme emotional instability, erratic and self-destructive...
Read More check catalog
 
 
In Defense of Lost Causes

Slavoj Zizek - Verso
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by 'the most dangerous philosopher in the West.'In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Zizek looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past. Examining Heidegger's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Coping with Critical, Demanding, and Dysfunctional Parents: Powerful Strategies to Help Adult Children Maintain Boundaries and Stay Sane

David M. Allen - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Do you have a parent who is invalidating, critical, demanding, or hateful? In this important and much-needed guide, you'll learn how to set boundaries; uncover the hidden motives behind your parent's behavior; put a stop to repetitive, hurtful interactions; and foster healthier relationships....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir

Darryl Mcdaniels - Amistad
Format: Print book

In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals

Joel E Dimsdale - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

Susan Neiman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Brain Warrior's Way: Ignite Your Energy and Focus, Attack Illness and Aging, Transform Pain into Purpose

Daniel G. Amen - New American Library
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling authors Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are ready to lead you to victory... When trying to live a healthy lifestyle, every day can feel like a battle. Forces are destroying our bodies and our minds. The standard American diet we consume is making us sick;...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation

Laura Kipnis - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the page Its no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years weve witnessed so many spectacular public...
Read More check catalog