NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"A dark narrative brightened by a devoted mother's commitment and resilience in the face of an only child's strange and terrible illness."
An African-American mother's frank account of coping with an adult son with bipolar disorder.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"Contemplative, upbeat enlightenment for spiritually inclined positive thinkers."
NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Occasionally insightful but tiresome and scattershot."
NONFICTION
Released: May 13, 2012
"Each of these intimate tales of self-discovery are so brief as to be nearly indistinguishable, but the collection's overall effect gives voice to the desperate need for language to cope with one of the most socially challenging states of being."
A stark, important anthology of essays by mothers of transgender and gender variant children.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"A simultaneously painful and inspiring page-turner."
A no-holds-barred "biography of depression," based on the alternating journal entries of a mother and daughter.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"An informative overview of research in neuroscience that provides a scientific foundation for understanding mental disorders."
Smoller (Psychiatry and Epidemiology/Harvard Univ.; co-author:
Psychiatric Genetics, 2008) suggests that "[l]ike the purloined letter of Poe's tale, many of the most fundamental features of the normal mind have been hidden in plain sight."
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Despite pages of platitudes, Burroughs provides plenty of worthy material on the absurdity of the human condition and the unpredictability of contemporary life."
Acclaimed memoirist Burroughs (You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas, 2009, etc.) charts new territory, offering his readers advice on life.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"The book will have broad appeal, even though Meshorer admits that 28 days to attain bliss may be optimistic."
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"In meaningful, attention-worthy ways, Broad wisely distributes mental habits and daily practices that have made him a happy, successful man."
Billionaire philanthropist Broad, who has built two Fortune 500 companies, serves up a lifetime of business lessons.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A diverting but scattershot examination of undeniably intriguing aspects of human behavior."
Physicist Mlodinow (Physics/Caltech;
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, 2008, etc.) takes a wide-ranging look at some of the mysteries of the unconscious mind.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Proponents of the author's new-age beliefs will be intrigued; others will be more skeptical."
A neuropsychologist argues that the time has come for "an expanded model of reality" that takes into account the separation of mind and consciousness from the brain.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Comprehensive research and scholarly diction will attract only a scholarly, but grateful, readership."
Reitter (Germanic Languages and Literatures/Ohio State Univ.;
The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, 2008) traces the term "Jewish self-hatred" to the 1930s and explores the various meanings, positive and negative, it has acquired.
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