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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human. Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural...
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The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning

Ana Lorena Fábrega - Harriman House
Format: Hardcover

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years?. We trust the school system to prepare our kids...
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Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction

Mackenzie Phillips - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Print book

Actress and author of the courageous New York Times bestselling memoir High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips - Hollywood's go-to person on substance abuse and a visible and outspoken advocate for addiction awareness and education - brings her knowledge and voice on the subject of recovery...
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Freud's Thinking

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback

In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and culture, highlighting their indebtedness to contemporary neurophysiological and biological...
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All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

Tash Oakes-Monger - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Paperback

'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'. Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love...
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The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus - Vintage
Format: Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus - featured here in a stand-alone edition - is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide - the question...
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The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

MERVE EMRE - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter--fiction writers with no formal training in psychology--and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyondThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality...
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Helping Your Child with Sensory Regulation: Skills to Manage the Emotional and Behavioral Components of Your Child's Sensory Processing Challenges

Suzanne Mouton-Odum PhD
Format: Paperback

Imagine having the flu, while lying in a bed of ants, listening to heavy metal at high volume, and trying to do calculus. Now consider living in that body all the time. It becomes easy to understand how kids with difficulties processing and controlling sensory information can become avoidant,...
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Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays

Jacqueline Broad - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

There have been many different historical-intellectual accounts of the shaping and development of concepts of liberty in pre-Enlightenment Europe. This volume is unique for addressing the subject of liberty principally as it is discussed in the writings of women philosophers, and as it is theorized...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

JASON STANLEY - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.Fascism means...
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