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    The Art & Science of Discovering Who You Really Are

    **"Self-help you can use." —The Wall Street Journal"Captures the tone of the charismatic professor." —Kirkus Reviews**A thinking person's guide to self-awareness, How to Know Your Self also shows how you can use self-knowledge to live a happier life.Most of us live with a low-grade sense that something's off. A background hum of anxiety, regret, or dissatisfaction we can't quite name. We try ... Read more

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  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

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  • Fat Politics

    The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

    It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and ... Read more

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  • Enchanted America

    How Intuition & Reason Divide Our Politics

    America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a ... Read more

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  • A Voice Through a Cloud

    A Novel

    by Denton Welch ...
    Welch's piercing, intimate, slightly fictionalized, and posthumously published work deals with the bicycle accident that would cause his death thirteen years laterAt age twenty, Denton Welch was bicycling from London, where he was studying art, to Surrey to pay a visit to his aunt and uncle when he was struck by a car. The next thing he knew, he was lying on his back, unable to move, gazing up at ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Suburbia

    Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs. Eric Oliver offers a rich, engaging account ... Read more

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  • Fat Politics

    The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic

    It seems almost daily we read newspaper articles and watch news reports exposing the growing epidemic of obesity in America. Our government tells us we are experiencing a major health crisis, with sixty percent of Americans classified as overweight, and one in four as obese. But how valid are these claims? In Fat Politics, J. Eric Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    How To Know Your Self

    The Art and Science of Discovering Who You Really Are

    Narrated by J.Eric Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was an illusion?For more than twenty years, University of Chicago professor J. Eric Oliver has taught a legendary course—The Intelligible Self—that students routinely describe as life–changing. Now, in How to Know Your Self, he brings the best of that classroom experience to readers everywhere, guiding us through the most profound and ... Read more

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  • The Fabulous Tom Mix

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  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis

    Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through cultivating experiential openness, awareness, and engagement in actions based on personal values. In ... Read more

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  • The Untold History of the United States, Volume 2

    Young Readers Edition, 1945-1962

    Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer.There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known.Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • ACTivate Your Life

    An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook for Building a Life that is Rich, Fulfilling and Fun

    Embark on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth with ACTivate Your Life. This second edition, now in a user-friendly workbook format, equips you with powerful tools derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you set meaningful goals and breathe new life into your being.- A clear introduction to the ACT approach- Real life scenarios to make the examples come ... Read more

    $11.99 USD