Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those …
What is your emotional fingerprint? Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson discovered that each of us has an Emotional Style, …
Two mavericks in the field of positive psychology deliver a timely message Happiness experts have long told us to tune out our negative emotions and focus instead on mindfulness, positivity, and optimism. Researchers Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., and Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos., disagree. Positive emotions alone are not enough. Anger makes us creative, selfishness makes us brave, and guilt …
Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments …
Contains three fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites–each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Beron …
The Speckled Monster: a Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well …
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“Smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness Readers of Daniel J. Levitin’s two previous New York Times bestsellers have come to know and trust his unique ability to translate cutting edge neuroscience into an informative and entertaining narrative. Now Levitin turns his attention to an issue that affects everyone in the …
“An extraordinary eighty-year study has led to some unexpected discoveries about long life.” -O, The Oprah Magazine For years we have been told to obsessively monitor when we’re angry, what we eat, how much we worry, and how often we go to the gym. So why isn’t everyone healthy? Drawing from the most extensive …
“A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth.”—Al …
The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew
You are an idiot.Don’t get defensive! It’s not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn’t have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don’t know what the pyramids really looked like. You’re even pooping wrong – Jesus, you’re a wreck!But it’s going to …