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Understanding Trauma:: How to Overcome Post-Traumatic Stress

by Dr. Roger Baker

Published: 2010-02-19

Paperback: 192 pages

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Trauma is a term that many find alienating and clinical - it only seems relevant to those who have been through wars or lived through disasters. But in fact trauma is something most people encounter at some point in life, and Post Traumatic Stress - far from being a mental disorder - is a normal reaction...

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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.

by Evan Ratliff

Published: 2019-01-29

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur“Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden wo...

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The Dead House

by Linda Fairstein

Published: 2007-06-30

Paperback: 495 pages

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On Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands as abandoned nineteenth-century smallpox asylum, "The Deadhouse, where the afflicted were shipped off to die. It's a gruesome bit of history perhaps best forgotten. But for Alexander Cooper, it may be the key to a shocking murder...

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The Truth According to Us

by Annie Barrows

Published: 2015

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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Deborah Blum

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for changeBy the end of ninetee...

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Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

by Tom Service

Published: 2018-02-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant, but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of mus...

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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

by Kelly McGonigal

Published: 2016-05-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; s...

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

by Celeste Headlee

Published: 2017-09-19

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“WE NEED TO TALK.”In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversationsBASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWSNPR's Best Books of 2017Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relation...

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Where the Forest Meets the Stars

by Glendy Vanderah

Published: 2019-03-01

Hardcover: 321 pages

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An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on...

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Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

Published: 2014-04-22

Paperback: 592 pages

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Umberto Eco’s first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Étranger awardsThe year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate missi...