#hardcover #success #selfhelp #psychology #nonfiction #firstedition 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing-whether losing a hockey game or bombing a math test-can actually be a critical part of success. So he sought out the perspectives of men and women who have turned significant setbacks into meaningful comebacks-and sometimes even new careers-to illustrate how we can not only overcome defeat but grow stronger from the experience.

Blending firsthand interviews and advice from professional athletes, business executives, politicians, and Hollywood stars with expert analysis from leading psychologists and coaches, Win at Losing reveals how renowned figures-from Emmy Award-winning actress Susan Lucci to golfer Greg Norman and politician Michael Dukakis-have prevailed and even triumphed in the aftermath of loss, humiliation, and rejection. In showcasing the ways our most difficult moments can be turned into powerful growth opportunities, this lively and moving guide asks readers to redefine what constitutes success and failure, and offers an essential blueprint for harnessing the power of setbacks to achieve what we want in life.

Win at Losing

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#paperback #nonfiction #business #adamgrant #leadership #psychology 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Think Again and Originals For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Give and Take

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#paperback #fiction #alzheimers #psychology #drama #family #contemporary #earlyonset 

Virginia

Still Alice

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#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #psychology 

Michigan

An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

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#hardcover #firstedition #business #nonfiction #economics #psychology 

Think You Can't Lose, Think Again

What is the arrogance cycle? We've just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh, investment professionals sought ever more novel ways to create wealth. The only problem was that it was all artificial. In this book, Michael Farr examines the forces at work on individuals and markets and explains in clear, concise, layman's terms how we got to where we are. Farr focuses on individual factors--such as rampant consumerism, a sense of entitlement, narcissism, resentment toward the upper class--that combined to create the perfect economic storm. By consulting with leading psychologists and relaying first-hand experience with investment clients, he provides a case study of the arrogant investor. In reviewing failed enterprises like Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns, as well as the illegal activities of Bernie Madoff and others through the lens of arrogance, the book sheds light on those disasters and offers a means to detect the insidious presence of arrogance so that in the future we can contain the damage before it spreads.

The Arrogance Cycle

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#hardcover #inspirtional #intuition #psychology #thesoul #fiction #soulstories #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Shows how an understanding of authentic power can transform lives in many ways

Soul Stories

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#hardcover #nonfiction #boundaries #classic #psychology #relationships #family #christianliving #selfhelp #lifestyle  
Book has had water on it but it’s still in good condition other than that and is readable and clean, no mold or smell. Looks like it dried well. 

Oregon

When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life

Tells how to set limits and still be a loving person, discusses mental, emotional, and spiritual boundaries, and looks at the related teachings of the Scriptures

Boundaries

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#hardcover #nonfiction #animals #science #nature #firstedition #psychology

Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug begins with the death of Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. When Mama was dying, van Hooff took the unusual step of visiting her in her night cage for a last hug. Their goodbyes were filmed and went viral. Millions of people were deeply moved by the way Mama embraced the professor, welcoming him with a big smile while reassuring him by patting his neck, in a gesture often considered typically human but that is in fact common to all primates. This story and others like it form the core of de Waal's argument, showing that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy.De Waal discusses facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will, animal sentience, and, of course, Mama's life and death. The message is one of continuity between us and other species, such as the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions. Mama's Last Hug opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected, transforming how we view the living world around us.

Mama's Last Hug

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#hardcover #selfhelp #psychology #mentalillness #therapy #educational #autobiography #memoir #nonfiction 

Florida

A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope

Silver Winner, 2008 Nautilus Book Awards, Memoir/Personal Growth category. When Vanessa Vega would feel the darkness begin to come over her, she would do anything, hoping to escape it. Take a hot bath. Read a book. Watch TV. Talk to a friend. But then, finally, unable to fight it any longer, she would give in, head into the bathroom... and cut. Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light is a disturbing yet ultimately redemptive and inspiring memoir of a young woman compelled to injure herself in an attempt to cope with her overwhelming feelings of anxiety in the only way she knew how. Though still unknown to many, this disorder affects an estimated one percent of the population... and is on the rise, especially among teens. This affecting, heartwrenching book follows author Vanessa Vega's progress as she climbs her way backto emotional health and rebuilds her life. Readers will go inside the mind of a cutter," taking the journey with her as she struggles against her exhausting and shameful secret ritual. As Vega faces the anger and insecurity that lead to each encounter - while working with a therapist to understand the real motivating factors behind her behavior - Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light reveals what brings many to this disorder... and what can lead them out. With stunning insight, Vega has written a moving first-person account of self-injury, struggle, and redemption. "

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

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#Freud #psychoanalysis #betrayal #history #SigmundFreud #mind #scientist #psychology #psychologist #LouisBreger

Maryland

How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis

In 1877, a young Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer and they began a collaboration that would lead to the publication of the classic work,Studies on Hysteria. But by the time it released, Freud was moving to establish himself as a major figure in the treatment of mentally ill patients, and would let no one stand in his way. He consequently minimized Breuer's contributions, betraying his former mentor and benefactor.

InA Dream of Undying Fame, renowned psychologist Louis Breger narrates the story behind the creation of Studies as well as the case of Anna O., which helped contribute to Freud's definition of "neurosis." Breger reveals that Freud's own self-mythologizing and history not only affected everything he did in life, but also helped shape his emerging beliefs about psychoanalysis. Illustrating the importance of personality and social context behind an intellectual breakthrough, Breger provides an in-depth look at a field that reshaped our understanding of what it means to be human.

A Dream of Undying Fame

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#hardcover #nonfiction #agingwell #psychology #paperback 
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Idaho

Build a Better Brain at Any Age

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age. Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline, explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Discover what we can learn from “super-brained” people who are in their eighties and nineties with no signs of slowing down—and whether there are truly any benefits to drugs, supplements, and vitamins. Dr. Gupta also addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive decline. He likewise provides you with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical strategies to strengthen your brain every day. Keep Sharp is the only owner’s manual you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy regardless of your age!

Keep Sharp

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#hardcover #nonfiction #currentaffairs #fiction #philosophy #psychology #selfhelp 
SB5

An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers We all sense it—something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once—and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. You will never look at the world the same way again after you read this book: how you understand the news, the work you do, the education your kids need, the investments your employer has to make, and the moral and geopolitical choices our country has to navigate will all be refashioned by Friedman’s original analysis. Friedman begins by taking us into his own way of looking at the world—how he writes a column. After a quick tutorial, he proceeds to write what could only be called a giant column about the twenty-first century. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet’s three largest forces—Moore’s law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)—are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Why is this happening? As Friedman shows, the exponential increase in computing power defined by Moore’s law has a lot to do with it. The year 2007 was a major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform. Friedman calls this platform “the supernova”—for it is an extraordinary release of energy that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world—or to destroy it. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for “being late”—for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. To amplify this point, Friedman revisits his Minnesota hometown in his moving concluding chapters; there, he explores how communities can create a “topsoil of trust” to anchor their increasingly diverse and digital populations. With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations—if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is Friedman’s most ambitious book—and an essential guide to the present and the future.

Thank You for Being Late

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Alabama

Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

Sleep is one of humanity's great unifiers, yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis of sleep deprivation, with devastating effects on our health, our happiness, our job performance, and our relationships. Huffington identifies the many ways our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted undermines our health and our decision-making, and ravages our relationships, our work lives, and even our sex lives. She explores the manipulative and dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep, along with expert tips on how we can all achieve better and more restorative sleep.

The Sleep Revolution

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(A1) #nonfiction #psychology #hardcover #signed #autograph #inscribed 

Texas

Inscription: “Keep leaning forward! / (signature)

Describes how to discover purpose, happiness, and self-fulfillment by ending the quest for balance, becoming comfortable with life's turbulences, and making consistent positive adjustments.

SIGNED - Off Balance on Purpose

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#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #mentalhealth #art #personaldevelopment #comics #psychology #humor #chronicpain 

Ohio

How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same

"A book of humorous charts on serious topics, fun distractions from the big issues, and personal essays on the author's struggles with chronic pain, grief, and anxiety"--

Maybe This Will Help

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“A poignant, entertaining, sometimes heartbreaking little book about the way dogs behave. This is no training manual (Thomas doesn’t train her dogs but lets them train themselves), nor an abstract disquisition on canines. But whether or not a dog is part of your life, and no matter how much you think you already know, you will learn something new about dogs here, something no other book will tell you.” Hardcover measuring 5.25” x 8.25”. Pages clean with no writing. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear and edge wear but no tears. Crease on flap of dust jacket and small 1/2” stain on corner of ffep; see photo. #dogs #animalbehavior #psychology #hardcover #nonfiction  #pets #animals (Shelf 3B)

The Hidden Life of Dogs

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#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #economics #textbook #psychology #gallup 

#hardcover #psychology #technology #business #internet

New York

How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains

We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price?
 
Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield--known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views--brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of "the global now." Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and whether the minds of people born before and after the advent of the Internet differ.
 
Stressing the impact on Digital Natives--those who've never known a world without the Internet--Greenfield exposes how neuronal networking may be affected by unprecedented bombardments of audiovisual stimuli, how gaming can shape a chemical landscape in the brain similar to that in gambling addicts, how surfing the Net risks placing a premium on information rather than on deep knowledge and understanding, and how excessive use of social networking sites limits the maturation of empathy and identity.
 
But Mind Change also delves into the potential benefits of our digital lifestyle. Sifting through the cocktail of not only threat but opportunity these technologies afford, Greenfield explores how gaming enhances vision and motor control, how touch tablets aid students with developmental disabilities, and how political "clicktivism" foments positive change.
 
In a world where adults spend ten hours a day online, and where tablets are the common means by which children learn and play, Mind Change reveals as never before the complex physiological, social, and cultural ramifications of living in the digital age. A book that will be to the Internet what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming, Mind Change is provocative, alarming, and a call to action to ensure a future in which technology fosters--not frustrates--deep thinking, creativity, and true fulfillment.

Praise for Mind Change
 
"Greenfield's application of the mismatch between human and machine to the brain introduces an important variation on this pervasive view of technology. . . . She has a rare talent for explaining science in accessible prose."--The Washington Post
 
"Greenfield's focus is on bringing to light the implications of Internet-induced 'mind change'--as comparably multifaceted as the issue of climate change, she argues, and just as important."--Chicago Tribune
 
"Mind Change is exceedingly well organized and hits the right balance between academic and provocative."--Booklist
 
"[A] challenging, stimulating perspective from an informed neuroscientist on a complex, fast-moving, hugely consequential field."--Kirkus Reviews
 
"[Greenfield] is not just an engaging communicator but a thoughtful, responsible scientist, and the arguments she makes are well-supported and persuasive."--Mail on Sunday
 
"Greenfield's admirable goal to prove an empirical basis for discussion is . . . an important one."--Financial Times
 
"An important presentation of an uncomfortable minority position."--Jaron Lanier, Nature

Mind Change

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-IV Diagnosis

This highly practical volume provides a complete guide to conducting an age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clinically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Illuminating both the art and the science of child diagnosis, the book blends astute advice on the interview process with crucial information on a wide range of mental and behavioral disorders. Readers learn effective approaches to communicating with children and adolescents on a level that young people can understand; eliciting information from patients whose verbal and cognitive abilities may be limited; and recognizing how disorders may present in children of different ages. Clinicians and students from every mental health discipline will appreciate the book's thoroughness, sensitivity, and wealth of real-life applications and examples.


Interviewing Children and Adolescents

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Pages are a bit yellow #nonfiction #school #requiredreading #relationships #family #feminism #psychology #educational 

Georgia

When Sexes Collide

In a humorous look at the world of sexual politics, the author explores the changing dynamics of gender relations in the modern world, covering such topics as online dating and the American obsession with aging and appearance.

🫡 Are Men Necessary?

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#paperback #dennispalumbo #danielrinaldi #thiller #series #psychology #police

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride." --THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author

"This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings." --JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling author

Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime--those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi's investigation in Phantom Limb left off, turning the tables on him as he, himself, becomes the target of a vicious killer.

"Miles Davis saved my life." With these words Rinaldi becomes a participant in a domestic drama that blows up right outside his front door, saved from a bullet to the brain by pure chance. In the chaos that follows, Rinaldi learns his bad-girl, wealthy neighbor has told her hair-triggered boyfriend Rinaldi is her lover. As things heat up, Rinaldi becomes a murder suspect.

But this is just the first act in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. As one savagery follows another, Rinaldi is forced to relive a terrible night that haunts him still. And to realize that now he--and those he loves--are being victimized by a brilliant killer still in the grip of delusion. Determined to destroy Rinaldi by systematically targeting those close to him--his patients, colleagues, and friends--computer genius Sebastian Maddox strives to cause as much psychological pain as possible, before finally orchestrating a bold, macabre death for his quarry.

How ironic. As Pittsburgh morphs from a blue-collar town to a tech giant, a psychopath deploys technology in a murderous way.

Enter two other figures from Rinaldi's past: retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes, once a patient who Rinaldi treated for night terrors; and Special Agent Gloria Reese, with whom he falls into a surprising, erotically charged affair. Warned by Maddox not to engage the authorities or else random innocents throughout the city will die, Rinaldi and these two unlikely allies engage in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with an elusive killer who'll stop at nothing in pursuit of what he imagines is revenge.

A true page-turner, Head Wounds is the electrifying fifth in a critically acclaimed series of thrillers by Dennis Palumbo. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, Dennis Palumbo is now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice.

Head Wounds

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Worn, some creases. #nonfiction #psychology #selfhelp #malcolmgladwell 

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink

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Pennsylvania

How People You Don’t Know Can Transform You

When Strangers Meet

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#hardcover #psychology #nonfiction #jennymccarthy

North Carolina

A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

The celebrity author of the best-selling Belly Laughs and Baby Laughs presents a frank account of her experiences as a mother of an autistic son, describing her efforts to manage the condition's symptoms while sorting through conflicting medical theories.

Sam Weinman

Win at Losing

Adam Grant

Give and Take

Lisa Genova

Still Alice

Tom Rath

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

Michael K. Farr; P. J. O'Rourke (Foreword by)

The Arrogance Cycle

Gary Zukav

Soul Stories

Henry Cloud; John Townsend

Boundaries

Frans de Waal

Mama's Last Hug

Vanessa Vega; Bettie B. Youngs (Foreword by)

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

Louis Breger

A Dream of Undying Fame

Sanjay Gupta

Keep Sharp

Thomas L. Friedman

Thank You for Being Late

Arianna Huffington

The Sleep Revolution

Dan Thurmon

SIGNED - Off Balance on Purpose

Michelle Rial

Maybe This Will Help

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; Jared T. Williams (Illustrator)

The Hidden Life of Dogs

Tom Rath

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

Susan Greenfield

Mind Change

James Morrison; Thomas F. Anders

Interviewing Children and Adolescents

Maureen Dowd

🫡 Are Men Necessary?

Dennis Palumbo

Head Wounds

Malcolm Gladwell

Blink

Kio Stark

When Strangers Meet

Jenny McCarthy

Louder Than Words