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Helping the Good Do Better: How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change
Thomas Sheridan - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Courage To Thrive: Triumph in the Face of Adversity
Stephen Trudeau - Royce Publishing Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders
Stacey Radin Dr. - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
Michele J Gelfand - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Basic Books Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World
ERICA BENNER - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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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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How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Randy J Paterson - New Harbinger Publications Format: Print book
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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... |
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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 Ashtray:
Errol Morris - University of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
RYAN HAMPTON - All Points Books Format: Print book
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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?... |
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Joseph T. Hallinan - Crown Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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What Philosophy Can Do
Gary Gutting - W W Norton Format: Print book
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"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... |
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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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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Matthew Stewart - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
YASCHA MOUNK - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Middlepause: On Life After Youth
Marina Benjamin - Catapult Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love and Learn to Be Individuals
Steven Jay Fogel - Rocky Pines Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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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... |
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Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick
David A. Carbonell PhD - New Harbinger Publications Format: Paperback
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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,... |
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An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
Allison Schrager - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Cleveland Clinic Guide to Epilepsy: Essential Reading for Families
Elaine Wyllie MD - Elaine Wyllie, MD Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
Michael H. Stone MD - Prometheus Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
Carolyn Purnell - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Art of Reading
DAMON YOUNG - Scribe US Format: Hardcover
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'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... |
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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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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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Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought
Tom Jackson - Shelter Harbor Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
STEVE CASNER - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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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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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs - Convergent Books Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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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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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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The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
Bryan Doerries - Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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A Psychiatrist's Guide to Successful Retirement and Aging: Coping with Change
H Michael Zal - Lexington Books Format: Print book
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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... |
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50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
Tavis Smiley - Smiley Books Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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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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The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Jill Filipovic - Nation Books Format: Print book
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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... |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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Abandon Me
Melissa Febos - Bloomsbury USA Format: Print book
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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... |
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The Origin of Others
TONI MORRISON - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Somebody with a Little Hammer
Mary Gaitskill - Pantheon Books Format: Print book
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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... |
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The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Charles Fernyhough - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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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?"... |
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
Laura Kipnis - Metropolitan Books Format: Book
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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... |
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The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
Scott Herring - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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Nicotine
Gregor Hens - Other Press Format: Print book
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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.... |
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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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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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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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Passing Judgment: Praise and Blame in Everyday Life
TERRI APTER - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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But maybe we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past.
Charles Klosterman - Blue Rider Press Format: Print book
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"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... |
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Night Call: Embracing Compassion and Hope in a Troubled World
Robert J Wicks - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Steven A Sloman - Riverhead Books Format: Paperback
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"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... |
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esmé Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
Ethan Nichtern - North Point Press Format: Hardcover
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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?... |
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Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity
Carolyn Eckert - Storey Publishing Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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Characters on the Couch: Exploring Psychology through Literature and Film
Dean A Haycock - Greenwood Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
JORDAN PETERSON - Random House Canada Format: Hardcover
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#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... |
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir
SUSAN GUBAR - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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Conscience of a Conservative
ANONYMOUS. - Random House Format: Hardcover
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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.... |
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Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
Will Storr - The Overlook Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
Russ Harris - Shambhala Format: Print book
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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.... |
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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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Resilient Grieving: How to Live with Loss That Changes Everything
Lucy Hone - The Experiment Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Barron's GRE Psychology, 7th Edition
Laura Freberg - Barron's Educational Series; 7 edition Format: Print book
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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... |
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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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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Will Durant - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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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... |
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American Philosophy: A Love Story
John J Kaag - Farrar Format: Print book
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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... |
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Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
Clair Brown - Bloomsbury Format: Print book
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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... |
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Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS - Counterpoint Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving
Lisa Miller - Picador Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
Malene Rydahl - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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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... |
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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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What Love Is: And What It Could Be
Carrie Jenkins - Basic Books Format: Print book
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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... |
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An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir
Ariel Leve - Harper Format: Print book
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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... |
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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Russell Brand - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith - Crown Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Living with Robots
Paul Dumouchel - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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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,... |
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Permission to Feel
Marc A Brackett - Celadon Books Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Astra Taylor - Metropolitan Books Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life
Dr. Dr. Bill Thomas - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Tales of Madness and Desire
Frank Tallis - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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Tribe On Homecoming and Belonging.
Junger Sebastian - Twelve Format: Print book
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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... |
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith L. Herman - Basic Books; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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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... |
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The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World
Nancy Colier - Sounds True Format: Paperback
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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,... |
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On Truth
Simon Blackburn - Oxford University Press Format: Paperback
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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... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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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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Happier?: The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America
Daniel Horowitz - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder - Ecco Format: Print book
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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... |
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A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
Jen Waite - Plume Format: Hardcover
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**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... |
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
NADINE BURKE HARRIS - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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The Mechanical Bride - Facsimile
Marshall McLuhan - Gingko Press; Reprint edition Format: Book
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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... |
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Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
MICHAEL HARRIS - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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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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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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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
Deborah Serani - Rowman & Littlefield Format: Print book
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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... |
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
Lux Alptraum - Seal Press Format: Hardcover
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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.... |
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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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Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
GREGORY SMITHSIMON - Melville House Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Joshua Wolf Shenk - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
Jamie Holmes - Crown Publishers Format: Print book
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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... |
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Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
Steven Poole - Scribner Format: Print book
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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.... |
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks - Random House Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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In Defense of Lost Causes
Slavoj Zizek - Verso Format: Paperback
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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... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels - Amistad Format: Print book
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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... |
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Anatomy of malice : the enigma of the Nazi war criminals
Joel E Dimsdale - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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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,... |
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Susan Neiman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
Laura Kipnis - Metropolitan Books Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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