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New Nonfiction Releases January 2017
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanityby Ronald EpsteinA general-public guide to mindfulness as part of a safe, patient-centered health-care and medical practice describes the renowned author's perspective-changing experiences as a Harvard Medical student at the sides of doctors who practiced in very different ways.
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Disaster Falls: A Family Storyby Stephane GersonChronicles the aftermath of the author's eight-year-old son's drowning death during a family rafting trip, describing how the tragedy threatened to isolate their surviving family members as they processed wrenching grief in respective ways.
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I Can't Remember if We Said Goodbye: A Memoir
by Steve Earle
The memoirs of a legendary songwriter trace his complicated lifelong friendship with musician Townes Van Zandt, his dynamic experiences in the 1960s and 70s Texas music scene and his enduring recovery from drug addiction.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martinby Sybrina FultonAn intimate and inspiring portrait of Trayvon Martin shares previously untold insights into the movement he inspired from the perspectives of his parents, who also describe their efforts to bring meaning to his short life through the movement's pursuit of redemption and justice.
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Rise: How a House Built a Familyby Cara BrookinsTells the amazing story of a woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage but having no home to live in, enlisted the help of a small bank loan and a work crew consisting only of her and her four children to build a family home from the ground up, in the amazing story of a broken family's healing.
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Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-discoveryby Stephanie JaggerAn executive life coach reflects on a transformative ski season across five continents in what became a physical and spiritual journey that tested her body and spirit and helped her build new understandings about strength, love and authenticity.
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A new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campusby Lisa WadeA revelatory account of the new culture of sex at today's colleges profiles how students are navigating a harrowing emotional landscape marked by one-sidedness, status competition and sexual violence that is particularly challenging to minorities and women.
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arcticby Lawrence MillmanA sobering account of a series of obscure murders in the remote Belcher Islands and the unbalanced trial that followed stands as both a lamentation for a fading culture and a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing consequences of natural-world destruction.
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed Americaby Jonathan ChaitAn analysis of Barack Obama's considerable accomplishments in the face of critics from both parties explains why the author believes he will be considered one of history's greatest leaders in major policy fronts ranging from economics and the environment to health care and civil rights.
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It... How We Can Embrace Itby Jennifer MuellerA forefront psychologist analyzes the paradox of how today's corporate leaders both desire and reject creative solutions, offering insight into the biases that compromise innovation while suggesting options for recognizing creative opportunities and overcoming unproductive beliefs.
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the Worldby Robert D. KaplanThe best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography reflects on his truck-driver father's evocative travel stories while recounting his own experiences during a cross-country journey in an effort to recapture and understand America's landscapes from a ground-level perspective.
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequalityby James KwakThe co-author of the best-selling 13 Bankers outlines a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world of classroom Economics, clarifying the study's assumptions and misleading teachings while sharing historical insights into how economism became a prevalent influence in the U.S.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolutionby Klaus SchwabThe founder of the World Economics Forum reveals an imminent, unprecedented technological revolution in all venues of the physical, digital, and biological worlds that is fundamentally changing how ordinary people live and work.
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsarsby Daniel BeerAn extensively researched, 100-year history of the vast Russian penal colony of Siberia chronicles how more than a million criminals of all severity levels, revolutionaries and activists were exiled into what became a brutal colony also populated by family members, fugitives, terrorists and bounty hunters.
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I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voiceby Keke PalmerThe social media humanitarian actress best known for her performances in Scream Queens and Grease Live reveals the secrets, struggles and practices that have inspired her ambitions, encouraging young women to change negative mindsets to live with greater freedom, confidence and love.
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The Lost City of the Monkey God : A True Story
by Douglas J. Preston
The co-author of the FBI Agent Pendergast series presents a high-suspense account of the discovery of a lost civilization, contemporaries of the Mayans who lived deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Own It: The Power of Women at Workby Sallie KrawcheckOne of the highest-ranked women to ever work on Wall Street explains to women how to evaluate themselves and their careers by embracing and investing in unique traits proven to make women stronger leaders, better team players and more valuable assets to companies and employers.
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Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the Worldby Asi BurakExplores how the Games for Change movement, which uses games as a platform to engage players in current social issues, is spearheading humanitarian and educational efforts around the globe in collaboration with White House, NASA, World Bank and The United Nations.
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Elementary Structure of Thingsby Carlo RovelliThe theoretical physicist author of the best-selling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.
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Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Successby Angie MorganExplaining how leaders can be found at any level of an organization, a guide for reevaluating traditional concepts of leadership explains how to identify the thinkers, workers, innovators and influencers who are catalysts for positive organizational change.
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Lifeby Helen CzerskiExplanations of scientific principles as they can be observed in everyday examples, from the billowing cloud appearance of milk in hot drinks to how ducks keep their feet warm while walking on ice, reveal how they are linked to major challenges, including climate change and the energy crisis.
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Youngerby Elizabeth H. BlackburnDiscusses the end sections of each chromosome called telomeres, the enzyme that replenishes them, their role in the aging process, and specific lifestyle habits to that protect telomeres, slow down disease, and lengthen life.
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Societyby Cordelia FineChallenges conventional beliefs about evolutionary factors that are used to justify gender politics, outlining lively arguments against cultural stereotypes, in a call for a more equal society that recognizes the potential of both sexes
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Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Storyby Alexandra WolfeA Wall Street Journal columnist for "Weekend Confidential" explores the hubris and ambition of Silicon Valley innovators who are changing the world, tracing the stories of three upstarts who left promising college educations in favor of developing billion-dollar ideas.
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigationby Alan BurdickThe award-winning author of Out of Eden presents an intimate exploration of how life is organized around time and its conflicting perceptions, drawing on international travels and research lab visits where he witnessed fascinating time-altering phenomena.
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaustby Peter HayesA timely exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges common misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights to future generations.
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Orderby Richard HaassThe president of the Council on Foreign Relations presents a visionary examination of the deteriorating ability of today's global powers to shape the world in their image and facilitate world order, calling for new approaches that address the non-state contributors and other challenges of the 21st century.
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