Shelf Talk posted: " Happy 2024! It's a new year, and we've got plenty of books for those of you looking to start the year off on a positive start, along with compelling histories, stimulati" Shelf Talk
Happy 2024! It's a new year, and we've got plenty of books for those of you looking to start the year off on a positive start, along with compelling histories, stimulating science, and lots more!
Judson Brewer (Unwinding Anxiety) examines why we eat when we're not hungry - and how to stop - in The Hunger Habit, while Georgie Ede presents a plan to improve mood, overcome anxiety, and protect memory for a lifetime of optimal mental health in Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. Bestselling author Julia Cameron helps you discover an intuitive path to greater creativity in Living the Artist's Way, and Jami Attenberg offers a guide to writers looking to stay creative, focused, and productive all year round in 1000 Words. Seattleite Jessica McCabe presents an insider's guide to working with your brain (not against it) in How to ADHD, while Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman of the University of Washington's Love Lab reveal the five secrets of couples who transform conflict into connection in Fight Right. Chris Anderson, curator of TED Talks, shares why Infectious Generosity is the ultimate idea worth spreading. And Chip Conley gives readers 12 reasons why life gets better with age in Learning to Love Midlife.
Jamie Oliver's latest empowers cooks to make simple, incredible food with 5 Ingredients Mediterranean. The Noom Kitchen delivers 100 healthy, delicious, flexible recipes for every day, and Kate Ashmore presents wholesome, comforting recipes that are big on flavor, nourishment, and fun in Big Bites. Crystal Wilkinson shares stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks in Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts.
In Gut Check, Steven Gundry helps you unleash the power of your microbiome to reverse disease and transform your mental, physical, and emotional health; in Rethinking Diabetes, Gary Taubes shares what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments; and in Younger for Life, Anthony Youn helps you feel great and look your best with the new science of Autojuvenation.
In memoir, Michelle Horton heartbreakingly recounts a story of survival and unbreakable bonds after her sister is jailed for fatally shooting her abusive boyfriend in Dear Sister. Pop culture podcaster Kate Kennedy reflects on friendship, feelings, fangirls, and fitting in with her debut One in a Millennial, while Kate Manne delivers a definitive takedown of fatphobia in Unshrinking. And Crystal Hefner recounts how she survived Playboy and found herself amidst the objectification and misogyny at the Playboy mansion in Only Say Good Things.
Hannah Durkin rediscovers the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade in The Survivors of the Clotilda, while Islam Issa writes about Alexandria, the city that changed the world, and Ukrainian historian and public intellectual Yaroslav Hrytsak considers the forging of the nation of Ukraine. Marion Gibson presents a history of 13 witch trials across the globe in Witchcraft, and Natalie Haynes follows up Pandora's Jar with a female-centric look at the goddesses of Greek myth in Divine Might. And David Bellos takes an enlightening look at the history of copyrights and wrongs in Who Owns This Sentence?
Simon Shuster goes inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader of Volodymyr Zelensky in The Showman, while David Daokui Li demystifies China in an effort to prevent global conflict in China's World View. Joshua Green considers the uprising within the Democratic party centered on Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in The Rebels, and Michelle Norris reveals what Americans really think about race and identity in Our Hidden Conversations. And Kayle Chayka investigates how algorithms flattened culture in Filterworld.
NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce pens personal essays on the science of life in Transient and Strange, while Hannah Ritchie explains how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet in Not the End of the World, and Robert Downey Jr. teams up with Thomas Kostigen to aid in erasing your carbon footprint one bite at a time in Cool Food. Rebecca Boyle explores how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are in Our Moon, while Lynne Boddy and Ali Ashby discover the science and secrets behind the world of mushrooms in Fungi, and Erika Howsare reflects on trouble and kinship with our wild neighbors in The Age of Deer. And Jen Gunter considers the science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation in Blood.
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