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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,...
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The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth About the Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

Gretchen Rubin - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. During her multibook investigation into...
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The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

Pauline Boss - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as ambiguous loss. This is what we experience...
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The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions

David Amerland - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

The Sniper Mind from David Amerland is the first book to examine the learned skills necessary to become a sniper and teach readers how to apply those skills in business and in life.. Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge,...
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Managing OCD with CBT For Dummies

Katie d'Ath - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Break the chains of OCD with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Are you suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) ? You're not alone. Whether you've tried countless treatments or are seeking help for the first time, this expert, accessible guide is your beacon of hope for breaking...
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Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery

Peg O'Connor - Central Recovery Press
Format: eBook

Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. Life on the Rocks is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. It introduces some of the core concepts and vexing...
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The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

Jacob Ward - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling...
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

Clare Carlisle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage.. In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot -- an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel....
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly) , "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic) , and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams...
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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

BECKY KENNEDY - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving - which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise and practical guide to raising resilient, emotionally healthy kids, it's also a supportive resource for overwhelmed parents...
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