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1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

2) Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present

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Zakaria, Fareed

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions--past and present--that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.

3) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 188 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

4) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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Grann, David

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"-- "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower...

5) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 64 week(s).

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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?"...

6) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Grann, David

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 123 week(s).

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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 54 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

8) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-04-21. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

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Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in Economics for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields, but he has never brought them together in one book. Here, he explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical....