Lieberman, Daniel
Summary: A Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an engaging discussion of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Summary: The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included work at a Mormon mission in Germany at a time when the church was cooperating with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOD, EVELYN BIELieberman, Hallie
Summary: "A riveting history that tells the story of sex toys from ancient phalluses to 21st century vibrating rabbits. [Lieberman] focuses on the period from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids and finally to mainstays of today's pop culture. Lieberman's history is populated by vivid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 LIELieberman, David J
Summary: A holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger cites the shortcomings of traditional anger-management techniques while explaining how to shift one's perspective to maintain a state of calm. When we fight the urge to blow up or melt down, we fight against our own nature. Sometimes a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 LIEBiederman, Felix
Summary: "The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated--politically, culturally, and economically--by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the Democrats and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 BIEHari, Vani
Summary: There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 HARSilberman, Steve
Summary: "A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: A story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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Summary: "In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck searching for a nesting spot lands on a tall post sticking out of the Milwaukee River. Situated near a busy drawbridge and the noisy city of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Summary: "In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of "doctors" well known to police throughout New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BIESolden, Sari
Summary: Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honor your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD is the first guided workbook for women with ADHD designed to break the cycle of negative self-talk and shame-based narratives that stem from the common and limiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2019
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Summary: "A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Held―one of the most important Jewish thinkers in America today―recovers the heart of the Jewish tradition, offering the radical and moving argument that love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "Unprecedented is a simple, go-to guide to the many legal issues engulfing the Donald Trump presidency"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 AZAShalit, Wendy
Contents: Introduction: my bratz problem--and ours -- "Hi, slut!" -- The new bad-girl script and its limitations -- It's midnight : do you know where your role models are? -- Against repression (emotional repression, that is) -- Excuse me, ma'am, have you seen my friends? -- Pure fashion divas -- People-pleasing bad girls and rebellious good girls -- Feminism's (mild) fourth wave -- From diapers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: Explains the concept of symmetry and its ramifications for art, music, and life on Earth, describing how symmetry is found everywhere in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 LEDShepphird, Sari Fine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8526 SHEHari, Johann
Summary: "Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they [believe they] are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a ... series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2018
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Summary: "January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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Summary: "Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening-and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.7 HARLieberman, Daniel Z.
Summary: In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "This brilliant portait of schizophrenia-the most malignant and least understood mental illness-by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, Chair of Columbia's legendary Psychiatry department, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient portraits and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope: that for the first time in human history, schizophrenia can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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Summary: "This authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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Summary: Provides both the doctor's and patient's views and gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, quality of life, and sources of support. Written by an internationally recognized expert on Parkinson disease, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this devastating disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2011