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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
GERD GIGERENZER - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to "turn right in 500 yards."Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters... |
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,... |
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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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Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace
Seth J. Gillihan - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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A practicing psychologist - one of the top popularizers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times, blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT to effectively overcome negative thinking, achieve... |
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The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog
Patricia B McConnell - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.World-renowned... |
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
Julia Shaw - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality is a provocative, eye-opening, and original book on the science of sexuality beyond gender from internationally bestselling pop-psychologist Julia Shaw. Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws... |
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek Murthy - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, Murthy argues that loneliness is the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and is responsible for the upsurge in suicide, the opioid epidemic, the overuse of psych meds, the over-diagnosing and pathologizing of emotional and psychological struggle.... |
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The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
Peter T. Coleman - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too -- and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing... |
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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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