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Picking Winners
A Horseplayer's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1994
Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures--and it all started with Andrew Beyer's Picking Winners. This edition features a new foreword in which the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year
For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional,...
Kluge
The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And why are we inclined to buy more cans of soup if the sign says "LIMIT 12 PER CUSTOMER" rather than "LIMIT 4 PER CUSTOMER?" In Kluge, Gary...
by Richard Weissbourd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Harvard psychologist RichardWeissbourd argues incisively that parents—not peers, not television—are the primary shapers of their children’s moral lives. And yet, it is parents’ lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children’s development.
Through...
What Your Explosive Child Is Trying to Tell You
Discovering the Pathway from Symptoms to Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
From the author of the groundbreaking The Defiant Child comes the first book to connect explosive behavior—when kids go from Jekyll to Hyde and back in the blink of an eye—with its underlying causes
Does your hitting, kicking, screaming child explode with so little provocation that you...
The Everyday Parenting Toolkit
The Kazdin Method for Easy, Step-by-Step, Lasting Change for You and Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“Alan Kazdin delivers the evidence-based, gold-standard method for parents who want simple, effective responses to the everyday challenging behaviors of their children.” —Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Flourish and The Optimistic Child
Alan Kazdin’s The Kazdin Method for Parenting...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize–winning feature writer and the author of The Tender Bar, has selected the best in sports writing from the past year. Chosen from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications and, increasingly, the top sports blogs, this collection showcases those journalists who are at the top of their game.
Discovering Your Personality Type
The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for determining personality type using the enneagram. Their studies of this ancient symbol and their progress in determining type with increasing accuracy are known, taught, and emulated worldwide. Discovering...
Age of Opportunity
Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
**“Simply the best book I have ever read about adolescence. . . With gentle wisdom, Steinberg guides us through truly novel findings on what happens during adolescence and tells us how, as parents and teachers, we should change our ways.” — Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph. D., author of The Optimistic...
Chubster
A Hipster's Guide to Losing Weight While Staying Cool
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
ARE YOUR SKINNY JEANS STARTING TO FEEL A LITTLE SNUG?
You don’t have the right clothes for the gym. You don’t do protein powders, wonder berries, or green tea. The idea of going without beer makes you weak in the knees.
But there’s no denying you are one. fat. hipster.
Lucky...
Proof
The Science of Booze
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
**Named a Best Science Book of 2014 by Amazon, Wired, the Guardian, and NBC
Winner of the 2014 Gourmand Award for Best Spirits Book in the United States
Finalist for the 2015 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
“Lively . . . [Rogers’s] descriptions of the science behind familiar...
Rebuilt
My Journey Back to the Hearing World
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
After Michael Chorost suddenly lost what was left of his hearing, he took the radical step of having a cochlear implant -- a tiny computer -- installed in his head. A technological marvel, the device not only restored to him the world of sound but also could be routinely upgraded with new software....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more...
The Peace of Mind Prescription
An Authoritative Guide to Finding the Most Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Ultimate Guide to Identifying, Treating, and Overcoming Depression and Anxiety
Two world-renowned psychiatrists have created a comprehensive and empowering guide to the science and treatment of anxiety and depression. At the heart of their message is the idea that treatment can and must...