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New Adult 000 - 300s Nonfiction 000 - Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems 100 - Philosophy and Psychology 200 - Religion 300- Social Science, Law, and Education
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No ordinary assignment : a memoir
by Jane Ferguson
In this unflinching memoir of ambition and war, the author chronicles her unlikely journey to become an award-winning war correspondent from the front lines of the most dangerous conflicts and dire humanitarian crises of our time, from the Arab Spring to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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Tiny beautiful things : advice from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed collects postings on life and relationships from The Rumpus' popular "Dear Sugar" online advice column, sharing recommendations on everything from infidelity and grief to marital boredom and financial hardships
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Determined : a science of life without free will
by Robert M. Sapolsky
An acclaimed behavioral scientist tackles major arguments of free will and takes them out, navigating through the chaos and complexity of science, quantum physics and philosophy to apply a new understanding of life beyond free will to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality and living well together.
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Free Agents : How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
by Kevin J. Mitchell
Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency.
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Build the life you want : the art and science of getting happier
by Arthur C. Brooks
Offering practical research-based practices, this blueprint for a better life equips you with the emotional self-management tools needed for taking control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve.
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Failures of Forgiveness : What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better
by Myisha Cherry
In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that letting go of negative emotions couldn’t be more wrong. That the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness—one that will give us a better chance to recover from wrongdoing and move toward “radical repair.”
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What doesn't kill us makes us : who we become after tragedy and trauma
by Mike Mariani
Mike Mariani, a journalist traces the lives of six people who have experienced catastrophic, life-changing events. Using his own experience and the lessons of psychology, literature, mythology and religion, he explore the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one's life is cleaved into a before and after.
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The perfection trap : embracing the power of good enough
by Thomas Curran
A highly regarded professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, sharing contemporary evidence, explores how the pursuit of perfection can lead to burnout and depression and shows what we can do to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect to led a more purposeful and contented life.
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Nobody's fool : why we get taken in and what we can do about it
by Daniel J. Simons
In a world brimming with deception, two psychologists explain the science behind cons, including Ponzi schemes, phishing, fraudulent science, fake art and crypto hucksters, and provide unforgettable sayings and practical tools for helping readers spot scams before it's too late.
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The experience machine : how our minds predict and shape reality
by Andy Clark
Drawing on new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology, a widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist presents a provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world, which is one of the most significant developments in our understanding of the mind.
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How the Talmud can change your life : surprisingly modern advice from a very old book
by Liel Leibovitz
Leibovitz guides readers through the sprawling text with all its humor, rich insights, compulsively readable stories, and multilayered conversations. Contemporary discussions framed by Talmudic philosophy and psychology draw on subjects ranging from Weight Watchers and the Dewey decimal system to the lives of Billie Holiday and C. S. Lewis.
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Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach
Combining the principles of psychotherapy with the teachings of Buddhism, this illuminating guide explains how to eliminate the personal conflicts and feelings of not being good enough that can cause such problems as addiction, overwork, and perfectionism, and how to develop balance, compassion, acceptance, self-healing, and a more fulfilling life.
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Created to dream : the 6 phases God uses to grow your faith
by Rick Warren
In Created to Dream, Pastor Rick Warren offers an empowering and practical reminder that no matter the challenges you face or how impossible your situation might seem, God has a dream for your life that he promises to carry to completion.
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Blood in the machine : the origins of the rebellion against big tech
by Brian Merchant
This most pressing story in modern tech introduces an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, who took arms against the industrialists automating their work in an all-but-forgotten and deeply misunderstood class struggle that nearly brought England to its knees—and sets the stage for the threat of big tech today.
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Class : a memoir
by Stephanie Land
The author of the New York Times best-seller Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, which inspired a hit Netflix series, continues her story as she finishes college and pursues her writing career.
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Prequel : an American fight against Fascism
by Rachel Maddow
The noted MSNBC anchor traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
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An inconvenient cop : my fight to change policing in America
by Edwin Raymond
The highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history offers a rare, often shocking view of American policing that exposes institutional violence and corruption and presents a vision of radical hope and potential for change that could reform police departments across the country.
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Extremely online : the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet
by Taylor Lorenz
An acclaimed Washington Post reporter and leading authority on internet culture reveals how online influence came to upend the world. She shows how this phenomenon become one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism, forming an unappreciated and insurgent digital dynamic resulting in new approaches to work, entertainment, fame and ambition.
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On Marriage
by Devorah Baum
“As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn’t that an extraordinary fact?” So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language.
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Ours was the shining future : the story of the American dream
by David Leonhardt
Drawing on decades of writing about the economy for the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, in this definitive biography of American dream, offers an eye-opening account of how the U.S. built the most prosperous mass economy in history after the Depression, and how that economy gradually unraveled.
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Judgment at Tokyo : World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia
by Gary J. Bass
The product of 10 years of research and writing, this riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era recounts the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes.
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The K&W guide to colleges for students with learning differences
by Marybeth Kravets
Hundreds of thousands of students with learning differences head to college every year. This comprehensive guide makes it easy for those students and their families and guidance counselors to tackle the daunting process of finding the school that fits their needs best.
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The sisterhood / : The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
In this thrilling new perspective on history, the New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls turns her attention the women of the CIA who fought to become operatives, transformed spy craft and provided the data analysis that helped track down Bin Laden in his Pakistani compound.
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While Idaho slept : the hunt for answers in the murders of four college students
by J. Reuben Appelman
In this thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation, the author recounts the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students. His explores our societal fascination with true crime, the media's involvement and the future of homicide investigations. All the while, he humanizes the four victims, examining the richness of their lives.
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The Democrat Party hates America
by Mark R. Levin
A #1 New York Times best-selling author, radio host, and Fox News star argues that a radically dangerous Democrat agenda is upending American life.
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Fashion Killa : how hip-hop revolutionaized high fashion
by Sowmya Krishnamurthy
A music journalist and pop culture expert presents an oral history of the hip-hop artists, designers and stylists in New York, Paris and beyond who redefined worldwide fashion over the last fifty years.
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The Hungry Season : A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
by Lisa M. Hamilton
This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
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Counting the cost
by Jill Duggar
For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting, as they share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show that remained hidden from their fans.
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Going infinite : the rise and fall of a new tycoon
by Michael Lewis
The #1 best-selling author of The Big Short, Flash Boys and Moneyball returns with the inside story of enigmatic CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
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Democracy awakening : notes on the state of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
In this compelling and original narrative, the author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American explains how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals, weaponizing language and promoting false history, and argues that taking our country back starts by remembering our nation's true history.
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Crossings : how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet
by Ben Goldfarb
An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world.
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Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America
by Michael Harriot
The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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Observations Concerning Dignifiable Questions about American Higher Education
by Ekkehard-Teja Wilke
The quantitative leap in the student population after 1945 accelerated positive and negative developments. Opportunity of education is available, but hardly equal opportunity. Higher education seems to have become unduly influenced by interests and considerations destructive of quality education. Changes need to be considered and consensually implemented now in order to minimize intended and unintended negative consequences.
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The last island : discovery, defiance, and the most elusive tribe on earth
by Adam Goodheart
"A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. It narrates the tragic stories of other Andaman tribes' encounters with the outside world. And it shows how the web of modernity is drawing ever closer to the island's shores.
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The hidden roots of white supremacy : and the path to a shared American future
by Robert P. Jones
Through stories of people in contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota and Oklahoma, the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, illuminates the possibility of a new American future in which we finally fulfill the promise of a pluralist democracy.
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Rome and Persia : the seven hundred year rivalry
by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Chronicling seven centuries of conflict between Rome and Persia— one of the greatest rivalries of world history, an acclaimed historian shows how these two great powers evolved together and how, despite their endless crashes, a mutual respect prevented them from permanently destroying the other.
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Battlefield cyber : how China and Russia are undermining our democracy and national security
by Michael G. McLaughlin
From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. Halting this digital aggression will require Americans to undertake sweeping changes in how we educate, organize and protect ourselves and to ask difficult questions about how vulnerable our largest technology giants are.
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Never enough : when achievement culture becomes toxic--and what we can do about it
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Drawing on interviews with families, educators and an original survey on nearly 6,000 patients, an award-winning journalist and social commentator investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, exposing how the pressure to perform is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large, and provides a framework for fighting back.
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The loom of time : between empire and anarchy from the Mediterranean to China
by Robert D. Kaplan
Exploring the Greater Middle East, which encompasses much of the Arab world, this book weaves together classic texts, immersive travel writing and voices from every country to reveal the impacts of history on the present state and make the case for classical realism as an approach to this vast region.
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How to interpret the Constitution
by Cass R. Sunstein
Any approach to constitutional interpretation needs to be defended in terms of its broad effects--what it does to our rights and our institutions. It must respect those rights and institutions--and safeguard the conditions for democracy itself. Passionate and compelling, How to Interpret the Constitution is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about how the Supreme Court is changing the rights and lives of Americans today.
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The injustice of place : uncovering the legacy of poverty in America
by Kathryn Edin
Through engaged ethnographic research, deep historical understanding and riveting storytelling, three of the nation's top researchers provide a sweeping and surprising new understanding of America's places of the most extreme poverty, shedding new light on deep disadvantage that must shape a new War on Poverty.
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The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial
by David Lipsky
Starring heroes, villains, pioneers and con artists, this dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, which grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes.
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When crack was king : a people's history of a misunderstood era
by Donovan X. Ramsey
Following four individuals who give us a startling portrait of the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, this exacting work, weaving together research with voices of survivors, exposes the undeniable links between the last triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement and the consequences we live with today.
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Unbroken bonds of battle : a modern warriors book of heroism, patriotism, and friendship
by Johnny Joey Jones
Through unfiltered and authentic conversations with American heroes in every branch of service, Joey tackles the big questions about life, loss, and, of course, hunting. Powerful life lessons are woven throughout these personal oral histories. Also included is a scrapbook of beautiful candid photographs from the lives of these modern warriors.
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The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
by Andrew Leland
In a book that is part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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A thread of violence : a story of truth, invention, and murder
by Mark O'Connell
An award-winning author tells the true crime tale of a Dublin socialite who squandered all his money and planned and executed a 1982 bank robbery that left two innocent people dead and whose conviction created an infamous political scandal.
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We may dominate the world : ambition, anxiety, and the rise of the American Colossus
by Sean A. Mirski
By turns reluctant and ruthless, Americans squeezed their European rivals out of the hemisphere while landing forces on their neighbors' soil with dizzying frequency. Mirski reveals the surprising reasons behind this muscular foreign policy in a narrative full of twists, colorful characters, and original accounts of the palace coups and bloody interventions that turned the fledgling republic into a global superpower.
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American whitelash : a changing nation and the cost of progress
by Wesley Lowery
Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist charts the return of the American cycle of racial progress and white backlash and how the federal government has failed to intervene.
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Little, crazy children : a true crime tragedy
by James Renner
Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this gripping work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell—and keep.
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Behold the monster : confronting America's most prolific serial killer
by Jillian Lauren
Follows journalist Jillian Lauren's journey to uncover the confessions and motivations of serial killer Samuel Little, who killed approximately 90 women over six decades, while balancing the gruesome details of his murders and giving voice to the lives of his victims.
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End times : elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration
by Peter Turchin
History shows that when the elite is riven by too many claimants, when counter-elites are powerful enough to lead effective populist uprisings, then the death knell of the established order is nigh. In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture. Time will tell whether Peter Turchin's warning is heeded.
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The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession
by Michael Finkel
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
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The last action heroes : the triumphs, flops, and feuds of Hollywood's kings of carnage
by Nick De Semlyen
This entertaining behind-the-scenes account of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and‘90s Hollywood charts Stallone and Schwarzenegger's carnage-packed journey from enmity to friendship against the backdrop of Reagan's America and the Cold War and reveals untold stories of the colorful characters who ascended in their wake.
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Spies : the epic intelligence war between East and West
by Calder Walton
One of the world's leading scholars of intelligence and national security presents this riveting, secret story of the 100-year intelligence war between Russia and the West, bringing to life the best and worst of mankind and offering lessons for the conflict between U.S. and China that will dominate the 21st century.
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Quick & legal will book
by Denis Clifford
This newly revised and updated guide includes all the necessary forms for creating a basic will tailored to your circumstances and without complicated and unnecessary legal jargon.
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