Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: September 14, 2010 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59154-8 (0-307-59154-9)
Ambitions in life seems predicated on the formula that if we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, then we would be happy. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that we have it backward: Happiness fuels success, not the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Trumpeter On Sale: October 12, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-828-8 (1-59030-828-X)
The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. The problem is that addictions are often the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. Bill Alexander’s...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: April 10, 2012 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0134-9 (0-8070-0134-1)
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in the number of young people taking psychiatric medication--but, despite a heated debate on the issue, we haven’t heard directly from the “medicated kids” themselves. In Dosed, Kaitlin Bell Barnett, who was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, weaves together...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: March 27, 2012 Price: $23.95 ISBN: 978-1-60980-391-9 (1-60980-391-4)
Belli moves beyond the distractions of the vaccine debate and presents compelling evidence that exposure to heavy metals and other chemicals, when paired with genetic susceptibilities, impacts the brain development of children.
The alarming spike in autism in recent years has sent doctors and parents on a search for answers. And while...
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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Other Press On Sale: January 20, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59051-257-9 (1-59051-257-X)
How can we sustain love when lurking rivals, imaginary or real, threaten to destroy our fragile state of happiness? How can we love freely when jealousy becomes more seductive than love itself? Isolated by the sheer terror of being betrayed sooner or later, the jealous lover hangs in suspense, waiting for...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: August 1, 2006 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2009-4 (0-7679-2009-0)
While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: January 25, 2011 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2754-3 (0-7679-2754-0)
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly anticipated follow-up. Dr. Brizendine draws upon the latest scientific breakthroughs to show how, through every phase of life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different from the female one. Following the male brain from infancy...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype On Sale: March 23, 2010 Price: $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2753-6 (0-7679-2753-2)
From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly anticipated follow-up. Dr. Brizendine draws upon the latest scientific breakthroughs to show how, through every phase of life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different from the female one. Following the male brain from infancy...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 3, 2012 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7937-4 (0-8129-7937-0)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 11, 2009 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27881-4 (0-307-27881-6)
Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement of scientific discovery.
Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, thereare experimental results that the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world. If history is any precedent, we...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: March 1, 2005 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38232-7 (0-553-38232-2)
A remarkable testament of hope and love, these pages recount Howard Buten’s lifelong journey working with autistic children. For three decades his pioneering, often controversial approaches have enabled him to gain access to their strange and solitary universe—a universe he shares in a book that is unlike any you’ve ever read...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 8, 2000 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70322-5 (0-375-70322-5)
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have revolutionized our understanding of the human mind and human cognition. But what implications do these new findings have for the place of reason--long considered the crowning human faculty that ensured transcendent purpose--in human life? This is the profoundly important question Donald Calne, a leading neurologist and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: May 26, 1992 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-90732-0 (0-449-90732-5)
When Joan Frances Casey "awoke" on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. It wasn't the first time she had blanked out.
After only a few sessions with Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, Casey discovered she had MPD--Multiple Personality...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: June 7, 2011 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45966-4 (0-307-45966-7)
In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 6, 2012 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47670-8 (0-307-47670-7)
Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70442-0 (0-375-70442-6)
Humorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family.
When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 6, 2012 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-47495-7 (0-307-47495-X)
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 15, 2012 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38992-3 (0-307-38992-8)
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries. Why can your foot move halfway to the...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: May 31, 2011 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-37733-3 (0-307-37733-4)
If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 10, 2010 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-3075-8 (0-7679-3075-4)
An eye-opening exploration of the intriguing and often counter-intuitive science of human navigation and experience of place.
In the age of GPS and iPhones, human beings it would seem have mastered the art of direction, but does the need for these devices signal something else—that as a species we are actually hopelessly...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: December 29, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-39374-6 (0-307-39374-7)
World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives readers the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral." You’ll discover:
• What positivity is, and why it needs to be heartfelt to be effective • The ten sometimes surprising forms of positivity •...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: February 8, 2000 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-440-50827-4 (0-440-50827-4)
Step-by-step, through exercises and provocative lessons, anyone can harness the power and awesome wonder of their own genius, mastering such life-changing skills as problem solving, creative thinking, self-expression, goal setting and life balance, and harmonizing body and mind. Michael Gelb's How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci is an inspiring and...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Dell On Sale: June 15, 1999 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-440-50882-3 (0-440-50882-7)
In the bestselling tradition of The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal, The Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude and The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook comes The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook--the companion volume to Michael Gelb's 1998 Delacorte hardcover bestseller.
Created to structure and motivate the reader's development...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: June 21, 2011 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-55643-959-9 (1-55643-959-8)
On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson’s eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by a fellow student gone berserk. The killer was jailed for life, but for Gibson the tragedy was still unfolding. The morning of the shooting, he learned, college officials had intercepted but...
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