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Humiliation

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Wayne Koestenbaum Picador

Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection. The lives of people both famous...

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The Tangled Wing

Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

Revised and Updated; Melvin Konner Holt Paperbacks

"It is rare to find an author with a depth of knowledge in both the biological and social sciences, combined with superb writing skills sufficient to provide readers with a breathtaking new understanding of human behavior. Mel Konner did that twenty years ago in the first edition of The Tangled Wing. The updated and revised edition of this book is an even greater achievement . . . The Tangled Wing is sure to be among the most important books published in the first decade of the new millennium."—Alice S. Rossi, Harriet Martineau Professor Emeritas of Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

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Packaging Girlhood

Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D. St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award Every parent who cares about empowering her daughter should own a copy." - Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl...

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Hardcover : $25.99 Buy	Packaging Boyhood Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Mark Tappan, Ed.D. St. Martin's Press Player. Jock. Slacker. Competitor. Superhero. Goofball. Boys are besieged by images in the media that encourage slacking over studying; competition over...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The New Black Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression Darian Leader Graywolf Press Paper Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Destroying the World to Save It Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism Robert Jay Lifton Picador National Book Award winner and renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton reveals a world at risk from millennial cults intent on ending it all. Since the...

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Growing Up Fast

Joanna Lipper Picador

"In nearly 400 fast-paced pages of wonderfully evocative prose, much of it in the words of her six subjects, all teen mothers, Lipper has actually conveyed the social and personal history of a growing class of Americans for whom there is little help and less hope. But [these] people [possess] inner lives, and this is what Lipper is so deft at communicating . . . [Her book] will burden the conscience of its readers."—The New Republic

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Myth of Repressed Memory False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse Dr. Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham St. Martin's Griffin According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so...

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Why I Wore Lipstick

To My Mastectomy

Geralyn Lucas St. Martin's Griffin

NOW A LIFETIME ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERING IN OCTOBER! Having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School and landed her dream job at 20/20, the last...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	The Neuro Revolution How Brain Science Is Changing Our World Zack Lynch with Byron Laursen St. Martin's Griffin Neurotechnology---brain imaging and other new tools for both understanding and influencing our brains---is accelerating the pace of change almost everywhere,...

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Sleights of Mind

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, with Sandra Blakeslee Picador

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world’s greatest magicians to...

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Nurturing the Shy Child

Practical Help for Raising Confident and Socially Skilled Kids and Teens

Barbara G. Markway, Ph.D., and Gregory P. Markway, Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

DO YOU WORRY THAT YOUR CHILD IS TOO SHY? DOES YOUR CHILD SIT ON THE SIDELINES, OFTEN AVOIDING GROUP ACTIVITIES? DOES YOUR CHILD FEEL NERVOUS WHEN BEING...

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Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	The Status Syndrome How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity Michael Marmot Holt Paperbacks "Bold, important and masterful . . . Marmot's message is not just timely, it's urgent." -The Washington Post Book World You probably didn't realize...

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Head Cases

Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

Michael Paul Mason Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Mason deftly conveys the frustrations and inequities of traumatic brain injury . . . [He] performs a valuable service by calling attention to the plight of the brain injured . . . I had come to think of neurological dysfunction as an almost fanciful affliction, its victims like characters in a work of magical realism. Mason has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality."—Mary Roach, The New York Times Book Review

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A Question of Torture

CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

American Empire Project

Alfred McCoy A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“An indispensable and riveting account” of the CIA’s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation) In...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Now That I'm Out, What Do I Do? Thoughts on Living Deliberately Brian McNaught Stonewall Inn Editions For many gay men and lesbian women, the first step in a long journey is acknowledging and accepting their sexuality. But what happens to those men and women...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Levels of the Game John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Thou Shalt Not Be Aware Society's Betrayal of the Child Alice Miller; Preface by Lloyd deMause; Translated from the German by Hildegarde and Hunter Hannum Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Originally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	For Your Own Good Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Alice Miller Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children...

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The Dependent Gene

The Fallacy of "Nature vs. Nurture"

David S. Moore Holt Paperbacks

"The Dependent Gene is a masterful analysis and a breath of fresh air in the stale atmosphere of current trends in behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology. A useful and engaging guide for the lay reader, the practicing scientist, and all who seek a more integrative approach to the endlessly fascinating process of development."—Robert Lickliter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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George & Sam

Two Boys, One Family, and Autism

Charlotte Moore St. Martin's Griffin

"[Moore's] two oldest sons, George and Sam, are autistic; her youngest is not. As exhausting and difficult as this situation is for Moore, it makes for a book that is extremely helpful in conveying the enormous differences in how autism affects children. One autistic son is very verbal; the other has limited language. One is anxious, and one is fearless about running away. George & Sam also illustrates how certain therapies can work well with one and do nothing for the other . . . Despite their sleep disorders, educational needs, disruptive behaviors and lifelong need for constant care, her two older sons clearly provide Moore with satisfaction."—USA Today

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Send in the Idiots Stories from the Other Side of Autism Kamran Nazeer Bloomsbury USA In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a special school alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Savage Girls and Wild Boys A History of Feral Children Michael Newton Picador Wild or feral children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly...

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Our Boys Speak

Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives

John Nikkah St. Martin's Griffin

John Nikkah asked one simple question: What do the boys think? From the best-selling Ophelia Speaks to the "girl power" movement, teenage girls are speaking...

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