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The things we love : how our passions connect us and make us who we are / by Ahuvia, Aaron,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'The Things We Love' is a revealing investigation of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things - drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing.
Subjects: Collectors and collecting; Hobbies; Interest (Psychology);
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Transcendent kingdom / by Gyasi, Yaa,author.;
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Ghanaian Americans; Immigrant families; Doctoral students; Grief; Depressed persons;
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Atomic habits [sound recording] : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones / by Clear, James,author,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Audiobooks.; Habit.; Habit breaking.; Behavior modification.;
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Hope : a novel / by Levy, Marc,1961-author.; Dickens-Doyle, Hannah,translator.; translation of:Levy, Marc,1961-Horizon à l'envers.;
Set in Massachusetts, 'Hope' follows neuroscience students Luke, Josh, and Hope who have created a new computer program that can capture a persons entire consciousness, memory, and personality. When Hope is diagnosed with a fatal illness, their work takes on a new significance and urgency. Everything that defines who Hope is, and everything Luke and Josh love about her, will not be lost. Memory by memory, theyre going to make sure of it.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Cancer; Friendship; College students; Consciousness;
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Your best digital life : use your mind to tame your tech / by Garner, Jonathan,author.; Clarke, Greg,1959-illustrator.; Gawdat, Mo,writer of foreword.; Sanghvi, Menka,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Learn principles that go beyond digital detoxes, the benefits of inconvenience, and the secret of intentional habits. Through a mix of storytelling and cutting-edge insights from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness, the authors introduce their unique M.O.R.E Method, guiding you through a series of practices that will build your mental muscles of observing, reflecting and experimenting. This book will reveal your digital blind spots and build positive digital habits so you can reconnect with what matters most to you.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Technology; Intention.; Mindfulness (Psychology);
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The power of pressure : why pressure isn't the problem, it's the solution / by Jensen, Dane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 'The Power of Pressure', Dane Jensen combines insights gathered from his own work with the latest research in biology and neuroscience to help you escape the traps of pressure. Jensen teaches you how to deal with pressure and stress during peak moments and over the long haul, you will also learn how to recognize pressure moments so that you can prepare for when you will likely the feel the heat, and much more! Jensen is an instructor at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. He lives in Toronto, ON. For readers of 'Grit' and 'Mindset'.
Subjects: Stress (Physiology); Stress (Psychology); Stress management.; Success;
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Being a beast : adventures across the species divide / by Foster, Charles,1962-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Becoming a beast -- Earth 1 : badger -- Water : otter -- Fire : fox -- Earth 2 : red deer -- Air : swift.To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir, and ultimately presents an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.LSC
Subjects: Foster, Charles, 1962-; Animal behavior.; Animals; Animals; Animals; Human-animal relationships.; Nature writers;
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The maps we carry : psychedelics, trauma and our new path to mental health / by Cartwright, Rose,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, Rose started to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm. What if people's intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection? Rose set out on a quest to draw a new map of mental health, interviewing experts in psychiatry and neuroscience along the way: what she discovered will have implications for generations to come"--Back cover.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Cartwright, Rose.; Hallucinogenic drugs; Mental health.; Obsessive-compulsive disorder.; Psychotherapy patients;
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Most delicious poison : the story of nature's toxins-from spices to vices / by Whiteman, Noah,author.;
"Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals the origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals, the mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them, and how a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience. This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but is also intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the last 500 years of human history, the same way again"--
Subjects: Mushrooms, Poisonous.; Poisoning; Poisonous animals.; Poisonous plants.; Poisons.;
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Quitting: a life strategy : the myth of perseverance and how the new science of giving up can set you free / by Keller, Julia,author.;
"Grit isn't always great. Perseverance doesn't always pay off. In Quitting: A Life Strategy, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Julia Keller dives into "the neuroscience of nope," and the cultural messaging that drives our reluctance to throw in the towel, to dismantle the myth of perseverance once and for all. Combining reportage from the front lines of scientific research, pop culture, with conversations with people who have made profound change in their own lives and "Permission Slips" to guide readers in their own embrace of quitting, Keller gives readers the rationale and confidence they need to pull the plug and shape their own lives without fear-at work, at home, in our relationships, and beyond"--
Subjects: Career changes.; Occupational mobility.; Self-preservation.; Self-reliance.;
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