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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2019
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| Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise AronsonWhat it is: a thoughtful, comprehensive exploration of aging, from medical concerns to identity issues to depictions of the elderly in pop culture.
Why you should read it: Aging eventually comes for us all, but it also affects our families, our economies, and our wider societies.
For fans of: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, Spring Chicken by Bill Gifford. |
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The latte factor : why you don't have to be rich to live rich
by David Bach
What it is: outlines three inspirational secrets to financial freedom that explain how readers can use their current resources to pursue their dreams.
Why you should read it: promotes the simple idea that small amounts of money not wasted can be saved and help you reach financial freedom.
About the author: Bach is best known for his best selling Finish Rich book series and Automatic Millionaire series.
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| Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David EpsteinWhat it is: a persuasive and thought-provoking vindication of the jack-of-all-trades; a review of the circuitous paths to success taken by notable (if distractible) athletes, inventors, and creators.
Featuring: author J.K. Rowling, Game Boy inventor Gunpei Yokoi, tennis champion Roger Federer.
Did you know? Legendary musician Duke Ellington quickly gave up on music as a child in favor of drawing and sports, only lured back by the emergence of jazz. |
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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
by David Wallace-Wells
What it is: brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. The world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today.
For fans of:: An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring
Why you should read it: both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation.
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| Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together by Belinda LuscombeWhat it is: an evidence-based and engaging dive into how to stay together and the benefits of healthy long-term partnership -- not just emotionally but also on your health and finances.
Topics include: relationship familiarity, learning to argue, infidelity, how (and when) to look into marriage counseling.
About the author: Award-winning journalist Belinda Luscombe has been an editor at large at TIME Magazine since 2008, where she writes the weekly "10 Questions" column. |
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| Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthyWhat it's about: the troubling problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria, with a review of the history of antibiotics and the obstacles that researchers face in developing new treatments.
Why you should read it: Although the topic is sobering and the situation dire, the author presents his analysis with compassion and leaves readers with plenty of reasons to have hope.
Read this next: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong, Immunity by Luba Vikhanski. |
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Burnout : the secret to unlocking the stress cycle
by Emily Nagoski
What it is: explains why women experience burnout differently than men--and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.
Why you should read it: The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout. How can you "love your body" when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you "lean in" at work when you're already giving 110% and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish?
Features: insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises,
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Tap, taste, heal : use emotional freedom techniques (EFT) to eat joyfully and love your body
by Marcella Friel
What it is: offers a step-by-step guide to using the Tapping technique—an easy tool that uses gentle self-tapping on points of the body and affirmation statements to short-circuit harmful patterns.
Why you should read it: Links to online demonstrations and cooking tutorials.
About the author: Friel is a mindful eating mentor and natural foods chef.
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| The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World by Jamil ZakiWhat it is: an impassioned, thought-provoking, and well-researched rallying cry for empathy, which Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki argues is disappearing in modern society.
Why you should read it: Zaki's research undermines the common misconception that empathy is an inherent trait rather than a learnable skill.
Try this next: I Feel You by Cris Beam, Social Empathy by Elizabeth Segal. |
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