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Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work

An essential guide to protect yourself from burnout by learning to develop and master key emotional intelligence skills

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. 

Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code

 Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor, avid reader, naval leader--AND rule breaker, chance taker, and troublemaker. 

Outspoken: Why Women's Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free

A big think, conversation-changing book, full of practical advice, about how women can learn to claim the power of their voices in the workplace and at home, and what needs to change so they can finally be heard.

All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men—and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish.

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. 

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens. Years later, Kushner wrote this straightforward contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. 

The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

Is there a hidden part of you that no one else sees? Drawing from scientific research, in-depth interviews with experts and other introverts Granneman reveals the clockwork behind the introvert's mind--and why so many people get it wrong initially. 

The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Rascist Struggle

When it comes to injustice, especially racial injustice, rage isn't just an acceptable response-it's crucial in order to fuel the fight for change.

Speak with No Fear

Public speaking is the #1 fear in America. Millions of people are terrified at the prospect of going up on stage and addressing a crowd even more than they're afraid of death. 

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager (Updated and Revised Edition)

Change the way you think about project management — project manager may not be your official title or necessarily your dream job, but with the right strategies, you can excel.

Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation

A "lively, encouraging" guide to handling bullies and difficult personalities in the workplace (Publishers Weekly).

Spark: 24 Concepts to Ignite, Unstick, or Supercharge Your Work Life

Part manifesto, part self-help guide, Spark is for anyone who has to be resilient and tap into the fire (or inferno!) inside of them to overcome a challenge. The goal of this book is to help you overcome whatever obstacles stand between you and the life you want to live.