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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Using straightforward definitions and clear, striking visuals, this book makes the workings of the brain easy to understand and shows what happens when things go wrong, with information on disorders such as anxiety and paranoia, as well as explanations of the different therapies that are used to treat them, from CBT to psychoanalysis, group therapy to art therapy. How Psychology Works explains hundreds of psychological terms clearly and simply, such...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Advice Goddess presents a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, science-based guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair. Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess, isn't exactly the warm-and-fuzzy type. She's the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps type. Her Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck was a big hit, and she's following that no-nonsense guide to good behavior with her very own prescription for living better: Unf*ckology!...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, the author aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers - to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. The author uses a variety of examples from history and from headlines to illustrate that people size up the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social, medical, and psychological research in our lifetime. The idea that behaviors can be being addictive is new, but the threat is near universal. Experts are just beginning to acknowledge that we are...
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