Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50951-0 (0-385-50951-0)

**ALA Notable Book, 2003

Krakauer’s previous books have given insight into lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven, he shifts his focus from the extremes of physical adventure to the extremes of religious fundamentalism within American culture.

At the core of Under the Banner of Heaven is a... Read more >

It's Always Personal
Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace
Written by Anne Kreamer

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7993-0 (0-8129-7993-1)

With women now the majority of the workforce and the lines between office and personal life blurring as never before, the dynamics of work have shifted profoundly. Written by journalist and former corporate executive Anne Kreamer, It's Always Personal combines the latest information on the intricacies of the human brain, candid... Read more >

Type Talk at Work (Revised)
How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
Written by Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50928-8 (0-440-50928-9)

Type Talk at Work is a revolutionary guide to understanding the workplace and to learning how to apply certain methodologies for optimal efficiency. Now fully revised and updated for its 10th anniversary, this popular classic now features a new chapter on leadership.



"...now fully revised and updated, the book is designed to... Read more >

Conquering Fear
Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
Written by Harold S. Kushner

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 8, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38589-5 (0-307-38589-2)

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable book, Harold... Read more >

Living a Life that Matters

Written by Harold S. Kushner

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 20, 2002
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72094-6 (0-385-72094-7)

Most of us need to feel that we matter in some way; perhaps this explains the high value placed on titles, corner offices, and even fleeting celebrity. But most of us also need to feel that we are good people. In this luminous yet practical book of spiritual advice, Harold Kushner... Read more >

Knots

Written by R.D. Laing

Format: Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1972
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71776-0 (0-394-71776-7)

A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships. Read more >

Politics of Experience

Written by R.D. Laing

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 12, 1983
Price: $8.76
ISBN: 978-0-394-71475-2 (0-394-71475-X)

Laing attacks accepted assumptions about the nature of "normality" with a challenging view of the mental sickness built into our society. Read more >

On Becoming an Artist
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Written by Ellen J. Langer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45630-4 (0-345-45630-0)

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of... Read more >

Seductive Poison
A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple
Written by Deborah Layton

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 9, 1999
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48984-3 (0-385-48984-6)

Twenty years ago, 913 followers of the Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide in a commune deep in the jungles of Guyana. Seductive Poison is the riveting story of how Layton, a former member of the Peoples Temple and close confidante of Jim Jones, was seduced by this notorious cult, how she... Read more >

The Worry Cure
Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You
Written by Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9766-1 (1-4000-9766-5)

For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. THE WORRY CURE is a comprehensive approach to help us identify, challenge, and overcome all types of worry, using the most recent research and his more than two... Read more >

The Wounded Woman

Written by Linda Schierse Leonard

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-411-7 (1-57062-411-9)

A Jungian analyst, Leonard uses dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, literature, and her own experiences to expose the wound of the spirit that both men and women of our culture bear. A father wounded in his own psychological development, she speculates, will not be able to give his daughter the care... Read more >

In an Unspoken Voice
How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Written by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Foreword by Gabor Mate, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-943-8 (1-55643-943-1)

In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In... Read more >

Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Written by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. and Maggie Kline

Format: Trade Paperback, 536 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-630-7 (1-55643-630-0)

An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures... Read more >

The Seasons of a Man's Life

Written by Daniel J. Levinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-33901-0 (0-345-33901-0)

This is the first full report from the team that discovered the patterns of adult development. Ranking in significance with the original works of Kinsey and Erikson, it explores and explains the specific periods of personal development through which all human beings must pass--and which together for a common pattern underlying... Read more >

The Seasons of a Woman's Life

Written by Daniel J. Levinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 456 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 11, 1997
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-31174-0 (0-345-31174-4)

Based on interviews with a diverse group of forty-five women, The Seasons of a Woman's Life completes and substantiates Levinson's thesis which he first introduced nearly twenty years ago: that all human beings go right on developing throughout their lives in a pattern of amazing inevitability.

Firmly grounded in original scientific research... Read more >

Sibling Revelry
8 Steps to Successful Adult Sibling Relationships
Written by Jo Ann Levitt, M.A., R.N., Marjory Levitt, Ph.D. and Joel Levitt

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50896-0 (0-440-50896-7)

Much has been written about the relationships of parents and children. But the unsung chord in adult relationships, professional and personal, is rooted in the sibling connection. Based on the authors' successful workshops, this book provides a guide for strengthening the bond between adult siblings who have been estranged or seek... Read more >

Guilty by Reason of Insanity
A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers
Written by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D.

Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Ivy Books
On Sale: May 1, 1999
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-8041-1887-3 (0-8041-1887-6)

A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon.

Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries–and... Read more >

Educating for Character
How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
Written by Thomas Lickona

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37052-2 (0-553-37052-9)

Winner of the 1992 Christopher Award "for affirming the higest values of the human spirit."

Drawing on 20 years of research and day-to-day classroom management, Dr. Lickona shows how to construct a curriculum that wins parental support and reports on scores of practical, successful programs that are turning schools around... Read more >

Brooklyn Zoo
The Education of a Psychotherapist
Written by Darcy Lockman

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74252-0 (0-307-74252-0)

In her eye-opening, ruthlessly honest account, Darcy Lockman shares the stress, frustration, and exhilaration of her clinical training as a psychologist in the midst of institutional dysfunction at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital.

After leaving her career in magazine journalism to become a psychotherapist, Darcy Lockman confronted a slew of challenges including... Read more >

Brooklyn Zoo
The Education of a Psychotherapist
Written by Darcy Lockman

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-53428-4 (0-385-53428-0)

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Seven years after her college graduation, Darcy Lockman abandoned a career in magazine journalism to become a psychologist. After four... Read more >

Of Two Minds
An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry
Written by T.M. Luhrmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74493-1 (0-679-74493-2)

With sharp and soulful insight, T. R. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest challenges from within and without, as it continues to offer hope to many.

At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMO’s... Read more >

The Doomsters

Written by Ross Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27904-0 (0-307-27904-9)

Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but... Read more >

Deep Leadership
Essential Insights from High-Risk Environments
Written by Joe Macinnis

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf Canada
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-36110-3 (0-307-36110-1)

In this new twist on a topic of perennial interest, Joe MacInnis shows how the leadership traits forged in extraordinary circumstances are transferrable to our everyday lives. Simply put, this is a handbook for building character.

Some people are born leaders. The rest of us find ourselves in positions where leadership... Read more >

The Wilkomirski Affair
A Study in Biographical Truth
Written by Stefan Maechler

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1135-1 (0-8052-1135-7)

This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented “memoir” of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.

In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne... Read more >

High Risk
Children Without A Conscience
Written by Ken Magid

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 1, 1989
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-34667-1 (0-553-34667-9)

Many of today's children are in danger of growing up without a conscience-the neglected children of too-busy parents or the abandoned and abused children from disrupted or violent families. Children in this ever-growing segment of the population pose a threat to themselves, their families, and to the larger community. High Risk... Read more >