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Healing the Traumatized Brain: Coping after Concussion and Other Brain Injuries (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Sandeep Vaishnavi - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: 1st Edition

The essential guide to recovering from concussion and other brain injuries.Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged process. Learn how to maximize your recovery from the effects of brain injuries with the guidance of Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD, and Vani Rao, MBBS,...
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The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk"

W. E. B. Du Bois - Penguin Classics
Format: Hardcover

When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America--and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the "soul"...
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Tree

Matthew Battles - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background....
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Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain

L. Ayu Saraswati - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Offers thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain. What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking...
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I You We Them: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer

Dan Gretton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evilSprawling and illuminating, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst...
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Psychology For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Adam Cash
Format: Paperback(3rd ed.)

Psychology For Dummies takes you on the challenging and thrilling adventure into the astonishing science of why we do the things we do. Along the way you'll find out how psychology helps us improve our relationships, make better decisions, be more effective in our careers, and avoid...
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Understanding Humanism

Andrew Copson - Routledge
Format: 1st Edition

Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a stance embodied in organised institutions....
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Neurodiversity For Dummies

John Marble - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Introducing Neurodiversity for Dummies -- a quick and easy way to understand neurodiversity as written by neurodivergent people and our familiesNeurodiversity For Dummies is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick...
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Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech

Cedrick Ngalande - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech outlines how the American media amasses enormous power and uses it to control every aspect of the people's lives - including schools, elections, science, and freedom of thought. Even religious institutions, supposedly...
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Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future

Raoul Martinez - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths at the heart of our economic, political, and criminal justice systems, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy,...
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