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Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals

Bill Wasik - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals'...
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LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action

Jeff Karp - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intention - by the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab.In an age of convenience and information overload, it's easy...
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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer (Best New True Crime Nonfiction Books)

Jillian Lauren - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

"Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was dreadfully wrong, in fact, and did something about it." -- Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling authorHe was sitting...
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The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

Dr Michael Norton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth's Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates the power of small acts - and how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life.. Our lives are filled with...
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Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be

Dr. Josh Axe - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Are you feeling stuck? Wanting more out of life? Use twelve powerful mindshifts to break through limiting beliefs, spark personal transformation, and build a more meaningful life.Perhaps you're busy but still feel empty. Maybe things haven't turned out how you'd hoped, and life...
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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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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

Frank Tallis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce...
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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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Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

Mary C. Murphy Ph.D. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of individual and team success - showing how to create and sustain a growth mindset in any organization's culture. Carol Dweck's multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset transformed our view of individual...
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This Book Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A No-nonsense Guide to Improving Your Mental Health

Liz Kelly LICSW - Bridge City Books
Format: Paperback

Tired of feeling like shit but can't afford therapy? Finding a good therapist is hard. Finding a good therapist you vibe with -- and who won't break the bank -- is even harder. In This Book Is Cheaper Than Therapy, seasoned therapist Liz Kelly brings the therapy office to you....
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