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xxiv, 292 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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An "exploration of the human psyche that shows us how the very purpose of the mind changes throughout the day. Indeed, as Gelernter explains, when we are at our most alert, when reasoning and creating new memories is our main mental business, the mind is a computer-like machine that keeps emotion on a short leash and attention on our surroundings. As we gradually tire, however, and descend the 'mental spectrum,' reasoning comes unglued. Memory ranges...
6) "But I deserve this chocolate!": the 50 most common diet-derailing excuses and how to outwit them
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xiii, 201 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Albers takes aim at the fifty most common self-sabotaging thoughts and excuses that keep you from eating right and looking great. She dismantles each excuse and offers a mindfulness exercise to help reroute your thoughts so you can meet your health goals.
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309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
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xvi, 347 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution of mapping technology--the "overnight success twenty years in the making." Bill Kilday takes us behind the scenes of the tech's development, and introduces to the team that gave us not only Google Maps but Google Earth, and most recently, Pokémon GO. He takes us back to the beginning to Keyhole--a cash-strapped startup mapping company started by a small-town Texas boy named John Hanke, that nearly folded...
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x, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest...
12) Wilma Mankiller
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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Biography of Wilma Mankiller.
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183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. There is actually very little in this universe that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It's not an easy task to stretch the mind to encompass both billions of years and billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size of a proton; the...
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378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Our Latest Longest War is a chronicle of how, why, and in what ways the war in Afghanistan failed. Edited by historian and Marine lieutenant colonel Aaron B. O'Connell, the essays collected here represent nine different perspectives on the war--all from veterans of the conflict, both American and Afghan."--Book jacket.
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