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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 415 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first...
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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." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans;...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Most every woman has found herself with a closet full of too many clothes or surrounded by brand-new items that somehow never get worn. Instead she gets stuck wearing the same few familiar pieces from a wardrobe that just doesn't feel "right." Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner argues that all those things are actually manifestations of deeper life issues. What if you could understand your appearance as a representation of your inner unresolved conflicts and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxviii, 802 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxviii, 240 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
The key to a less hectic, less stressful life is not in simply organizing your desk, but organizing your mind. The authors show you how to use the innate organizational power of your brain to make your life more productive and rewarding.
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Description
Marie Kondo's unique KonMari Method of tidying up is nothing short of life-changing -- and her first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, has become a worldwide sensation. In Spark Joy, Kondo presents an in-depth, illustrated manual on how to declutter and organize specific items throughout the house, from kitchen and bathroom items to work-related papers and hobby collections. User-friendly line drawings illustrate Kondo's patented folding...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 231 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind changes the understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight and humor, Dr. Katharine Esty describes the series of dramatic and difficult transitions that eightysomethings usually experience and how, despite their losses,...
14) Welcoming home
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
224 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xvii, 631 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Menopause is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be 'fixed,' Dr. Northrup claims, but a mind/body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence. The choices a woman makes now--from the quality of her relationships to the quality of her diet--have the power to secure her health and well-being for the rest of her life. Dr. Northrup shows: how menopause jump-starts changes in the brain, issuing a dramatic wake-up...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xi, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today's message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds that we're barely aware of them? Marketing guru Lindstrom presents the startling findings from his three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge experiment...
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Losing weight and successfully maintaining it over the long term is not as much about what you put in your stomach; it?s more about what?s happening in the brain. In Brain-Powered Weight Loss, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food. Changing this relationship...
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Publisher
Acheron Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 234 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Today, more than ever, the education doled out in classrooms is cold and cognitive. But, once outside, it is our uneducated emotions that move us, hold us back, and lead us astray. ... Yet many people lumber through life without giving full consideration to their emotions, partly because our empirical, materialistic culture does not encourage it or even make it seem possible, and partly because it requires unusual strength to gaze into the abyss...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A day is a story. A year is a story. A life is a story. You are a story. Ruta Sepetys is known for creating vivid characters and harrowing plots. After five award-winning works of historical fiction and countless hours of meticulous research, she can affirm...
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