Stumbling on Happiness
Written by Daniel Gilbert
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $15.95
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.
Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of...
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Musicophilia
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $14.95
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In
Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.”...
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Nothing Was the Same
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $25.00
From the internationally acclaimed author of
An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer...
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Conquering Fear
Written by Harold S. Kushner
Format: eBook, 182 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $23.95
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: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster...
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The Burn Journals
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire.
This is a true story.
In
The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children’s hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting...
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Between Two Worlds
The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
Written by Elizabeth Marquardt
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $13.95
A compelling new study reveals the true effects of divorceAn astonishing one quarter of adults between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five have grown up in divorced families. Now, as this generation comes of age,
Between Two Worlds will speak to them like no other book.
Elizabeth Marquardt (together with sociologist Norval...
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Being Generous
The Art of Right Living
Written by Lucinda Vardey and John Dalla Costa
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2009
Price: $
This extraordinary little book has the power to heal and foster relationships, console and empower individuals, create community and help save the world by providing a spiritual ecology for our daily lives.
Think that’s a bold claim? It is, but it’s also true. We can all be generous with our money when...
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101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Written by Terry McDermott
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience–the physical makeup of memory–and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
It’s not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist–malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious...
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Look Me in the Eye
My Life with Asperger's
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label...
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