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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Through deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on, "What's wrong with you?" or "Why are you behaving that way?," to asking,... |
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery,... |
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Leaves of Grass: The "Death-Bed" Edition
Walt Whitman
Format: Book
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Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on |
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestsellerTiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsNo matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach... |
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
Scott Hershovitz
Format: Hardcover
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From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a fresh, deep, and funny inquiry into life's biggest questions with the help of first-rate philosophers - including his two young childrenSome of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places - preschools... |
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The Secret Language of Dreams: A Visual Key to Dreams and Their Meanings
David Fontana - Chronicle Books
Format: Unabridged]
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The interpretation of dreams and the images that pervade them is a perennially popular subject that has challenged philosophers, psychiatrists, and lay people for centuries. In The Secret Language of Dreams, author and psychologist David Fontana combines the theories of Freud, Jung, and others... |
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
Lydia Denworth - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime.The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds... |
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Dave Grossman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton,... |
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Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
Jenara Nerenberg - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women - those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder - exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.As a successful Harvard... |
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