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Confessions of a Sociopath

Confessions of a Sociopath

A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

by M. E. Thomas

Hardcover, 302 pages, Random House Inc, $25, published May 14 2013 | purchase
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  • M. E. Thomas

An account of the author's life as a diagnosed non-criminal sociopath explains how her charisma and penchant for convincing lies enables her to influence and seduce others, offering insight into her system of ethics while advising readers on how to manage a relationship with a sociopath.

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Cows Save the Planet

Cows Save the Planet

And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

by Judith D. Schwartz and Gretel Ehrlich

Paperback, 220 pages, Chelsea Green Pub Co, $17.95, published May 20 2013 | purchase
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  • Judith D. Schwartz and Gretel Ehrlich

This book explains the role of soil in ecology and the economy, and reveals how treating soil in an environmentally sensitive way can bring about positive changes with respect to climate change, biodiversity loss, obesity, and other crises.

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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely

Paperback, 285 pages, HarperCollins, $14.99, published June 18 2013 | purchase
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  • How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves
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From Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, author and behavior economist Dan Ariely explores the question of dishonesty. He helps us understand why cheating is so prevalent and what we can do about it.

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Learning to Listen

Learning to Listen

A Life Caring for Children

by T. Berry Brazelton

Hardcover, 224 pages, Perseus Books Group, $24.99, published April 30 2013 | purchase
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  • T. Berry Brazelton

The pediatrician shares the life-shaping experiences that inspired his career, from the Texas childhood during which he routinely cared for younger cousins to his revolutionary observations of newborn behavior.

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Out of Our Heads

Out of Our Heads

Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

by Alva Noe

Paperback, 214 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $15, published February 2 2010 | purchase
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  • Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
  • Alva Noe

A noted philosopher and member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science examines flaws in current understandings about consciousness while proposing a radical solution that argues that consciousness must not be limited to the confines of the brain.

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The Astronaut Wives Club

The Astronaut Wives Club

A True Story

by Lily Koppel

Hardcover, 272 pages, Grand Central Pub, $28, published June 11 2013 | purchase
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Describes what life was like for a group of military wives, including Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Betty Grissom, and Louise Shepherd, who were thrust into the spotlight when their husbands became Mercury Seven astronauts.

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Monkey Mind

A Memoir of Anxiety

by Daniel B. Smith

Paperback, 212 pages, Simon & Schuster, $16, published June 11 2013 | purchase
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Daniel Smith documents his experiences with a kind of anxiety that results in panic attacks, bouts of insomnia and thoughts of "existential ruin." He shares insights into anxiety in today's world, and stories of sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.NPR Bestseller

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Permanent Present Tense

Permanent Present Tense

The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.

by Suzanne Corkin

Hardcover, 400 pages, Basic Books, $14, published May 14 2013 | purchase
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  • Suzanne Corkin

Recounts the extraordinary story of a brain-damaged patient known as H. M, who, after a psychosurgical procedure in 1952 to alleviate his epilepsy stole his ability to form new memories, helped scientists to make considerable advances in the study of memory. 40,000 first printing.

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Daily Rituals

Daily Rituals

How Artists Work

by Mason Currey

Hardcover, 278 pages, Knopf, $24.95, published April 23 2013 | purchase
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From Beethoven to Woody Allen, from Leo Tolstoy to Charles Dickens and John Updike, here are artists on how they create (and avoid creating) their works. Writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors and scientists consider how they work in letters, diaries and interviews compiled and edited by Mason Currey.

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The Call of Everest

The Call of Everest

The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak

by Conrad Anker and Thomas Hornbein

Hardcover, 303 pages, Random House Inc, $35, published May 14 2013 | purchase
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  • The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
  • Conrad Anker and Thomas Hornbein

Presents a historical survey of the world's tallest mountain, featuring accounts of famous climbs and tragedies, previously unpublished photographs, and scientific findings on the impact of climate change.

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Wave

Wave

by Sonali Deraniyagala

Hardcover, 224 pages, Random House Inc, $24, published March 5 2013 | purchase
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Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. In this searing, unflinching memoir, she allows herself to remember the life that she lost — and learns to balance that terrible loss with her need to keep her family alive in her heart.

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Give Me Everything You Have

Give Me Everything You Have

On Being Stalked

by James Lasdun

Hardcover, 218 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $25, published February 12 2013 | purchase
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  • On Being Stalked
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's harrowing ordeal at the hands of an obsessed former student whose campaign of hate mail, violently anti-Semitic online postings, and false public accusations were orchestrated to destroy his professional and personal life.

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Brilliant Blunders

Brilliant Blunders

From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

by Mario Livio

Hardcover, 341 pages, Simon & Schuster, $26, published May 14 2013 | purchase
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  • From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
  • Mario Livio

Draws on the careers of five renowned scientists including Charles Darwin, William Thomson, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein to reveal the important roles of their mistakes in advancing science, from Pauling's error in his model of DNA molecule structure to Hoyle's dismissal of the "Big Bang" theory.

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How Animals Grieve

How Animals Grieve

by Barbara J. King

Hardcover, 193 pages, Univ of Chicago Pr, $25, published March 21 2013 | purchase
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A Tear at the Edge of Creation

A Tear at the Edge of Creation

A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe

by Marcelo Gleiser

Hardcover, 285 pages, Simon & Schuster, $25, published April 6 2010 | purchase
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  • A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
  • Marcelo Gleiser

A physics and philosophy professor challenges modern beliefs about the definable nature of the cosmos, arguing that all things exist because of random imperfections, primordial asymmetries and outright accidents, in a report that also cites the importance of caring for the planet.

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Darwin's Ghosts

Darwin's Ghosts

The Secret History of Evolution

by Rebecca Stott

Hardcover, 396 pages, Random House Inc, $27, published June 12 2012 | purchase
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  • Rebecca Stott

Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

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The Savior Generals

The Savior Generals

How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson

Hardcover, 305 pages, St Martins Pr, $28, published May 14 2013 | purchase
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  • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq
  • Victor Davis Hanson

Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.

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Mission To Mars

Mission To Mars

My Vision for Space Exploration

by Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David and Andrew Aldrin

Hardcover, 258 pages, Random House Inc, $26, published May 7 2013 | purchase
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  • My Vision for Space Exploration
  • Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David, et al

The history-making astronaut, aerospace engineer and respected advocate for space colonization outlines a plan for taking humans to Mars within the next quarter century. The book poses business-specific arguments, while outlining practical strategies for travel and planetary homesteading.

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Ask Wendy

Ask Wendy

Straight-up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life

by Wendy Williams

Hardcover, 287 pages, HarperCollins, $25.99, published May 7 2013 | purchase
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Drawn from her popular "Ask Wendy" segment, the outspoken host of The Wendy Williams Show tells it like it is in this collection of womanly wisdom that is filled with advice on everything from relationships, parenting, body image, beauty and more. 100,000 first printing.

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Louder Than Words

Louder Than Words

The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

by Benjamin K. Bergen

Hardcover, 296 pages, Perseus Books Group, $27.99, published October 30 2012 | purchase
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  • The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
  • Benjamin K. Bergen

Describes how meaning is conveyed and processed in the mind, answering questions about how people can understand information about things they have never seen in person and why they move their hands and arms when they speak.

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New York City of Trees

New York City of Trees

by Benjamin Swett

Hardcover, 152 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, $29.95, published April 26 2013 | purchase
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With photographs and narratives, Benjamin Swett tells the stories of 60 trees, in all five of New York City boroughs.

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The Anatomy of Violence

The Anatomy of Violence

The Biological Roots of Crime

by Adrian Raine

Hardcover, 478 pages, Pantheon, $17.50, published April 30 2013 | purchase
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  • The Biological Roots of Crime
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A leading criminologist who specializes in the neurological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior draws on a wide range of new scientific research to explain how brain impairments that control the experiences of fear, decision-making and empathy can render people more likely to engage in criminal activity. 30,000 first printing.

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Time Reborn

Time Reborn

From the Limits of Physics to the Future of the Universe

by Lee Smolin

Hardcover, 319 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, published April 23 2013 | purchase
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  • From the Limits of Physics to the Future of the Universe
  • Lee Smolin

A theoretical physicist describes his new approach for thinking about the reality of time and explains his theory about the laws of physics not being timeless but rather capable of evolving.

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