His book on neuroscience, The Idea of the Brain, was shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize, Britain's most prestigious nonfiction book award. The best books on Science in Society, recommended by Deborah Blum Read 1 Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye Read 2 Moonwalking ...
David Crystal’s How Language Works is a detailed, all-encompassing nonfiction book addressing the many questions that arise when you start to really think about the processes of using language. In learning more about language, you’ll also learn more about yourself, your idiolect, and your unco...
Elizabeth didn’t expect her pragmatic sister “to even crack the book’s cover.” Maggie was “an avid reader, but her taste did not include anything that smacked of self-help. She liked novels or nonfiction books about beekeeping and bread baking.” (Maggie sounds like me, although my n...
About Discuss Book Club Giveaway! My Darling Boy by John Dufresne The story of of a man whose son collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida. EnterWordplay Solve this clue: D T the B O W the B and be entered to win..Your...
It just means you can always finish it later and you can always start a new book that you're a little bit more excited about.这只是意味着你可以以后再读完它，你可以开始一本你更感兴趣的新书。Because one of the premises of my whole philosophy around productivity, which is why my book is ...
Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveal About Us Timothy McMahon King (Herald Press) $17.99 OUR SALE PRICE = $14.39 As the author boldly notes, “Opioids claim the lives of 115 people per day. One of them could have been me.” You’ll have to read on to learn of King’s ne...
This YA narrative nonfiction book tells the story of the revelation of a racist social media account that changes everything for a group of high school students. An excellent book about the real-world consequences of online choices. Buy it:Accountableat Amazon ...
It would be remiss of me not to include a memoir in this list – and this also fits into a special interest area: Hollywood. ButJenette McCurdy‘s memoir comes with some important caveats: this covers abuse of many different kinds as well as addiction and eating disorders. It is a toug...
Bibliotherapy is a practice that uses books as part of therapy. Your mental health professional chooses a book, fiction or nonfiction, and as you read through the book you discuss it together. Because bibliotherapy is usually used with other forms of therapy, it’s hard to judge exactly ho...
In House Hawthorn, Madeleine the alchemist has had her addiction to angel essence savagely broken. Struggling to live on, she is forced on a perilous diplomatic mission to the underwater dragon kingdom—and finds herself in the midst of intrigues that have already caused one previous emissary ...