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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
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"Heartfelt . . . With Psychiatric Tales, Cunningham has crafted his own effective way to help both himself and other sufferers of mental illness."—NPR.org
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
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“In this hard-hitting but honest appraisal, America’s cultural skeptic Barbara Ehrenreich turns her focus on the muddled American phenomenon of positive thinking. She exposes the pseudoscience and pseudointellectual foundation of the positive-thinking movement for what it is: a house of cards. This is a mind-opening read.”—Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979 (Lectures at the Collège de France)
The Birth of Biopolitics

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This course thus raises questions of political philosophy and social policy that are at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism in twentieth century politics. A remarkable feature of these lectures is their discussion of contemporary economic theory and practice, culminating in an analysis of the model of Homo oeconomicus.
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
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“[Gopnik’s] account of what the science of recent decades has had to say about infants’ minds tells a fascinating story of how we become the grown-ups that we are.” —The New York Times
The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves:
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"In the neurological memoir The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves, Hustvedt takes us on her personal journey as she tries to unravel reasons for her tremors (which mostly occur while speaking in public) and to explain the mysterious disconnect between her body and mind. Hustvedt's deeply personal narrative reads at once like a detective novel, a medical history and a scientific critique. Through her own medical mystery, she keeps the reader engaged in the science by drawing connections to fascinating case stories from the medical literature."—Frederik Joelving, Scientific American
Perfect Chaos: A Daughter's Journey to Survive Bipolar, a Mother's Struggle to Save Her
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“Perfect Chaos is an open-eyed, sometimes raw, always astoundingly honest account of a family’s unanticipated battle with mental illness. Cinda and Linea’s awe-inspiring resilience and the sheer courage of their emotional transparency moved me to my core and deepened my empathy for all those touched by mental illness, including beloved members of my own family. It is about the fierce, transformative love between a mother and daughter and how they both learn to share their truths.”—Glenn Close, actress and co-founder, Bring Change 2 Mind
Thinking, Fast and Slow:
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Major New York Times bestsellerWinner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best...
Why Women Have Sex: Women Reveal the Truth About Their Sex Lives, from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
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"Illuminate[s] the complexities of women's sexual motivations through women's own words . . . We're hearing those motives articulated out loud for the first time."—Newsweek.com
 
"Occasionally poetic, always candid. The book is filled with insights with which to start conversations."—Psychology Today
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
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"To be conscious, Alva Noë claims, is to be 'awake, aroused, alert,' and neuroscientists are wrong to imagine that they can reproduce consciousness in a petri dish. A philosopher-scientist, Noë aims to replace neuroscience's reductionism. He compares the development of consciousness to a trickle of water that carves a tiny path in the land; with time, the path draws more water to it, eventually making it impossible for other water not to flow down that path. Similarly, cognitive habits grow in response to our needs and interests. Noë is an alluring writer . . . One comes away from the book agreeing that an 'explanatory gap' separates conscious experience from the simple firing of neurons, that reductionism is indeed dead, yet wondering what accounts for our conscious engagement with the world. Noë's partial answer is summarized in the book's preface: 'Only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious . . . has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue.'"—Ruth Levy Guyer, The Washington Post
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about...
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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"At times horrifying, at times terribly funny . . . Bravo!"—Janine Latus, New York Times bestselling author of If I Am Missing or Dead"

Nobody Left to Hate:
Nobody Left to Hate


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On April 20, 1999, the halls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, reverberated with the sound of gunshots as two students, highly armed and...
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die
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"Fascinating . . . While The Mourner's Dance is not intended to be a self-help book, readers who have undergone the death of a loved one might find solace and wisdom in the collective human experience of loss it illuminates."—Donna Marchetti, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"An elegant, deeply informative text [that] weaves rich scholarship [into] family history, folk tradition, and manifest humanity. In a way that Jessica Mitford never could, Ashenburg understands the verities of good grief and good funerals and why, to deal with death, we must deal with our dead. [This book is] free of the warm-fuzzies, full of uncommon wisdom."—Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking
Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies
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In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Michael Bader offers a groundbreaking new theory of sexual desire. Drawing on his twenty-five years as a...
Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
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"A scholarly, exhaustive, and utterly convincing refutation of the notion that human homosexuality is an aberration in nature . . . Bagemihl does realize that some among us will never be convinced that homosexuality occurs freely and frequently in nature. But his meticulously gathered, congently delivered evidence will quash any arguments to the contrary."—Kirkus Reviews
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People
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"The revelation that social pair-bonds do not necessarily imply exclusive mating relationships has spurred a revolution in how scientists think about mating systems. This book explores when and why social and sexual monogamy often do not coincide."—Paul W. Sherman, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition
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"An accessible, intriguing explanation of game theory . . . that can help explain much human behavior." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer Humans, like...
Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
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Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior? Considering evil from the unusual perspective...
Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime
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In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral reactions,...
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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“A fascinating read. Burton’s engaging prose takes us into the deepest corners of our subconscious, making us question our most solid contentions. Nobody who reads this book will walk away from it and say ‘I know this for sure’ ever again."—Sylvia Pagán Westphal, science reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Crowds and Power:
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Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and...
Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis
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In Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade render an insightful, unsparing...
Stay Close: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
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Libby Cataldi was the head of a private school and prided herself on being attuned to the problems her students endured. So how was it that she missed her own...
Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
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"Brad Cohen's story is a triumph of hope, determination, will, and relentless good humor. His approach to living with Tourette syndrome proves how much is possible when you expect the best of everyone, especially yourself.”—Peter J. Hollenbeck, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Head of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

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