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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2020
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Empty: A Memoir by Susan Burton What it is: a compelling and reflective chronicle of the author's struggles with and continued recovery from disordered eating.
Read it for: the emotionally affecting stories of family dysfunction and cycles of addiction.
About the author: journalist and documentary producer Susan Burton is a long-time editor of This American Life. | | Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We... by Alyson J. McGregor, MD What it's about: the male bias at the heart of modern medical knowledge and how women can fight for the care they need.
Topics include: pharmaceutical research with male-only subjects, nontraditional stroke and heart attack symptoms, disparities in pain management, and psychiatric misdiagnosis.
You might also like: Caring for Equality by David McBride; Everything Below the Waist by Jennifer Block. | |
Age later : health span, life span, and the new science of longevity
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Nir Barzilai
What it's about: The founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine translates recent scientific findings into news readers can use to help treat age-related illnesses and increase lifespan.
Reviewers say: A thoughtful take on aging that should be of interest to all concerned with the overlap between health and aging.- Library Journal
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Acting with power : Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
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Deborah H Gruenfeld
What it's about: In a book based on her class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the author reveals why we have more power than we believe, and explains how we can use our power better by borrowing from the techniques of actors.
Reviewers say: Offering an insightful look at a complicated subject, this book is a valuable tool for reflecting on one’s own capacity for power.-Booklist
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Group : How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
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Christie Tate
What it's about: The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers--her psychotherapy group--and in turn finds human connection, and herself.
Reviewers say: Readers will be irresistibly drawn into Tate’s earnest and witty search for authentic and lasting love. -Publisher Weekly
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Happiness Becomes You : A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good
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Tina Turner
What it is: Tina Turner--living legend, icon to millions, and author of the "brave and wry" (Vulture) memoir My Love Story--returns with a deeply personal book of wisdom that explores her longstanding faith in Buddhism and provides a guide to these timeless principles so you can find happiness in your own life.
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, PhD What it's about: the scientific underpinnings of habit formation, with insights about how to manage your expectations, motivations, and emotional responses.
Why you might like it: The advice presented here is well-grounded in research but is written in an inspiring tone and broken down into practical, approachable steps. | | When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink What it is: an accessible and thought-provoking look at how time (and our perception of it) impacts us in unexpected psychological, biological, and economic ways.
Topics include: how the time of day might affect the decisions we make; the wide-ranging ripple effects of afternoon energy drops; how to best harness the power of your own circadian rhythm.
Want a taste? "If you want to measure the world’s emotional state, to find a mood ring large enough to encircle the globe, you could do worse than Twitter." | | Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do by Eve Rodsky What it's about: the unequal expectations faced by many working women and how they spend their "free" time, with a focus on common disparities in household labor and ways to shrink the gap.
Why you should read it: with the rapid increase of people working from home, these issues could not be more important or timely.
Reviewers say: Fair Play is "potentially revolutionary" and gives readers "the right combination of venting and commiserating balanced by practical solutions" (Booklist). | |
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