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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her "witty...
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Raising a Socially Successful Child: Teaching Kids the Nonverbal Language They Need to Communicate, Connect, and Thrive

Dr. Stephen Nowicki - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on decades of research, psychologist Stephen Nowicki shows parents and educators how to equip children with the nonverbal skills they need to succeed socially in childhood, and throughout their adult lives. We all want our to kids learn the social skills they need to thrive. Yet many...
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And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...
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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

Molly Stillman - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm...
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On Giving Up

Adam Phillips - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.. To give up or not to give up?. The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form...
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Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)

John Horgan - Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback

What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalized?. John Horgan -- one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of terrorism...
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults

Daniel G. Amen, MD - Tyndale Refresh
Format: Hardcover

Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective ... .. In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed...
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Rob Henderson - Gallery Books
Format: Audio CD

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering...
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Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Tali Sharot - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.. Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling...
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

Anna Motz - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women who commit extreme acts of violence and cruelty and at the underlying oppression and abuse often at the heart of these crimes. Women can be murderers and child abusers. They can commit acts...
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