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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise October 2019
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
by Mitchell S. Jackson
What it is: an examination of the poverty, violence, and drug culture impacting the Portland, Oregon community of the author's youth, examining the large and small cultural forces that shaped his family.
Author alert: Jackson is a New York University professor and winner of the Whiting Award, presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays.
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What To Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food
by Michael F. Roizen
What it's about: two doctors expose how the food choices you make each day--and when you make them--can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age.
Why it's important: this revolutionary guide reveals how to use food to enhance our personal and professional lives--and increase longevity to boot.
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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
by Edith Hall
What it is: the renowned classicist and author of Introducing the Ancient Greeks explores Aristotle's inquiries into subjective happiness and the lasting, achievable state of contentment that he believed should be the ultimate goal of human life.
Publisher's Weekly calls it: "an engaging, thrilling approach to Aristotle’s pragmatic thought."
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| The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength by Dale Archer, MDMyth busted: that an ADHD diagnosis is something to be "overcome" and not a potential asset.
Read it for: the stories of celebrities and other notable figures whose accomplishments are grounded in the unique outlook and high energy levels of their ADHD.
Is it for you? The author isn't completely against medicating ADHD but does show a preference for managing the condition with "skills, not pills". |
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| How to Fall in Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len CatronWhat it's about: Based on Mandy Len Catron's viral article about a list of 36 questions that promise to quickly create intimacy between strangers, this thoughtful and reflective collection of essays tackles love, relationships, and the questions they leave us with.
Myth busted: that modern Valentine's Day was created by greeting card companies.
Reviewers say: "Catron melds science and emotion beautifully" (Booklist). |
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| Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren, with Carlye AdlerWhat it is: a practical, low-pressure guide to fitting meditation into your life, even if you don't think you have the time, space, skill, or patience for it -- or are just skeptical of the benefits.
Myths busted: that meditation requires a serious attitude, large time commitment, and a dedicated space.
Author alert: Host of Nightline and co-host of Good Morning America, journalist Dan Harris previously published the book 10% Happier. |
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
by Steven Novella
What it is: Novella, a clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine, expands on his podcast of the same name, along with other cast members known as the "Skeptical Rogues." This guide helps readers try to make sense of an increasingly crazy world using critical thinking skills, science and philosophy.
Publisher's Weekly says: "Empowering and illuminating, this thinker’s paradise is an antidote to spreading anti-scientific sentiments. Readers will return to its ideas again and again. "
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