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A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind

Rebecca Schiller - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

As propulsive as Brain on Fire and as poetically candid as The Collected Schizophrenias, one woman's quest for the truth of her neurodivergent mind. As Rebecca Schiller's young family moves to a two-acre homestead in the English countryside, Rebecca begins to suffer frequent falls,...
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

Judith Lewis Herman MD - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators...
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Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids

Liz Wheeler - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Having captured all the major institutions in our society, the left is waging its final assault - on America's children. In her new book, Liz Wheeler exposes the Marxists behind the attack on America's kids and challenges conservatives to fight to win. Everything is on the line.....
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions

Saul Kassin Ph.D - ?Prometheus
Format: Hardcover

Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time - in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world's leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators...
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The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony

Jay J. Van Bavel PhD - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes - to reflect the interests of the groups you belong to. In The Power of Us, psychologists...
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When Work is Good: What it Means, Why it Drives Results, How You Can Build a Workplace People Love.

Moe Carrick - Moementum, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

In a world where organizations strive for greatness, the people within them hold the key to success. Despite numerous studies, books, and training programs, leaders continue to struggle with unlocking the full potential of their workforce, resulting in low employee engagement, high turnover,...
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Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Jana Monroe - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing woman's life hunting down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and the real-life model for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs....
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Invisible Illness: An Insider's Guide to Eliminating Overwhelm and Rediscovering the Path to Health and Happiness with an Autoimmune Disease

Heather Hausenblas PhD - WDL
Format: Paperback

Need to (re) discover health and happiness without feeling overwhelmed? What if a few simple health habits could dramatically improve your wellness or the wellness of someone you love?Award winning researcher and health advocate, Heather Hausenblas, PhD, provides her inspiring journey...
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort...
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Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Christopher M. Palmer MD - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life.We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes mental...
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