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Aug92018 by Free eBookNo Comments
This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin

This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin

Autobiography, Biography, Health, Nonfiction, Psychology
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression eBook Download A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release! This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a
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Aug52018 by Free eBookNo Comments
What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan

Adult, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology, Sports and Games
What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan eBook Download *Instant New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting
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Aug52018 by Free eBookNo Comments
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright

Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright

Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright eBook Download From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly—and proposes that seeing th
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Jul302018 by adminNo Comments
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

Health, Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig eBook Download The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious? After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him. Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human a
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Jul282018 by Free eBookNo Comments
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller
Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent eBook Download I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her. Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children’s books; their life together one of enviable privilege and ease—until, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers a blow to Alice that renders her unconscious, and subsequently beats her into a coma. In the aftermath of such an unthinkable event, as Alice hovers between life and death, the couple’s friends, neighbours, and acquaintances try to understand what could have driven Oliver to commit such a horrific act. As his story unfolds, layers are peeled away to reveal a life of shame, envy, deception, and mas
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Jul272018 by adminNo Comments
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Health, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan eBook Download Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into th...
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Jul92018 by adminNo Comments
Endure by Alex Hutchinson

Endure by Alex Hutchinson

Health, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Sports and Games
Endure by Alex Hutchinson eBook Download "Reveals how we can all surpass our perceived physical limits." --Adam Grant - "This book is AMAZING!" --Malcolm Gladwell Limits are an illusion: a revolutionary book that reveals the secrets of reaching the hidden extra potential within us all Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell The capacity to endure is the key trait that underlies great performance in virtually every field--from a 100-meter sprint to a 100-mile ultramarathon, from summiting Everest to acing final exams or completing any difficult project. But what if we all can go farther, push harder, and achieve more than we think we're capable of? Blending cutting-edge science and gripping storytelling in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell--who contributes the book's foreword--award-winn...
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Jul92018 by adminNo Comments
Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl

Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl

Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help
Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl eBook Download New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable? Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker? Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's "Science of Us" website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, crin
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Jul92018 by adminNo Comments
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help
How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price eBook Download Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone--but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up--and then make up--with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good.  You'll discover how phone
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Jul82018 by adminNo Comments
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Self Help
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke eBook Download In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure a...
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