NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"Joyful reading about a groundbreaking study and its participants."
A fascinating account of the 268 individuals selected for the Harvard Study of Adult Development (the "Grant Study"), which "began in 1938 as an attempt to transcend medicine's usual preoccupation with pathology and learn something instead about optimum health and potential and the conditions that promote them."
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"A life-affirming, must-have morsel for Tolkien's colossal fan base."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"Given the author's prolific output, there is bound to be some overlap in material, but it's disheartening to find such repetition within one work."
An internationally renowned and controversial spiritual leader writes on the physical and spiritual components of fear, but the book suffers from a particularly narrow definition of the term.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"An unfocused analysis of what lies behind the desire to win."
Robertson (Psychology/Trinity College Dublin;
Opening the Mind's Eye: How Images and Language Teach Us to See, 2003, etc.) looks at how success and power affect human behavior.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"An enjoyable, breezy treatment of a provocative subject."
Psychopaths who commit violent crimes are at one end of a spectrum that also includes solid citizens.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"Not for skeptics of spiritualism or New-Age ideas, but Nepo provides thorough methods for reaching deeper into the inner self."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"An engaging exploration into living fully."
The director of the Institute for Extraordinary Living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health inquires into the dharma--vocation or calling--of a selection of both illustrious and ordinary individuals.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"A scholarly treatment of a fascinating subject that nonacademic readers may find difficult to follow."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"The main question is whether Noble was better served in the mental health system, or outside of it, and the answers she reaches trying to grow into adulthood and motherhood are at once jarring and deeply moving. "
Noble's story of living with dissociative identity disorder and of being misdiagnosed, misunderstood and adrift in society.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"A fairly dreary read about what should be a fascinating subject."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2012
"A straightforward approach to revamping one's life from an expert on vulnerability."
Brown (Univ. of Houston Graduate College of Social Work;
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, 2010, etc.) exposes and challenges some of the common myths surrounding vulnerability.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2012
"An entertaining overview of the science of physical attraction."
