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      By hooks, bell  LaVoy, January
       2023., 06:10:08, HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged.    Click to access digital title.    Sample Summary Note: A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
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      By Wolitzer, Meg
       c2014., Adolescent, Dutton Books for Young Readers Call No: Fic Wol    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
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      By Lewis, Marc D
       2015., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 616.86 L675b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Through the stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease, based on evidence that brains change with drug use. But cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do -- seek pleasure and relief -- in a world that's not cooperating. Brains are designed to restructure themselves with normal learning and development, but this process is accelerated in addiction when highly attractive rewards are pursued repeatedly. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. For anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
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      By Wohlleben, Peter, 1964-  Billinghurst, Jane, 1958-  David Suzuki Institute
       2017., General, David Suzuki Institute and Greystone Books Call No: 591.5 W846i    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters. Peter Wohlleben's wealth of personal experience observing nature in forests and fields with the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world. Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up. Peter Wohlleben follows his Hidden Life of Trees with these insightful stories into the emotions, thoughts, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in amazing ways - and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought. Peter Wohlleben writes on ecological themes. He manages a municipally owned, environmentally friendly woodland in Germany."--Inside cover.
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      By Poehler, Amy, 1971-  Hader, Bill, 1978-  Black, Lewis, 1948-
       [2015]., Juvenile, Disney Call No: DVD Fic Inside O   Edition: [English/French version].    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions ; Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life.
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      By Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-
       2019., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 599.88515 W111m   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions -- Adapted from publisher's description.
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      By Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-
       [2017], Adolescent, Tundra Books Call No: Fic Nie    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Petula's funny, and a crafting genius, but no social star at high school, and it doesn't help that she's isolated herself after her adored toddler sister died. Petula feels responsible for this death, though her parents say it was a tragic accident. No one's fault. Now, Petula sees danger everywhere: every activity and every bite of food could kill you. Then a new boy, Jacob, joins Petula's group in the school's lame art therapy program; he has a prosthetic arm and darkness behind his sunny surface. Petula and Jacob become friends, then, something more. But a secret behind why he's in the group could derail them."--From publisher.
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      By Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
       2011., Cambridge University Press Call No: 362.196 D744q    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Cambridge essential histories.Summary Note: "This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth century to its wide scope in the early twenty-first, this search for emotional health and welfare has cost billions. In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high. Drawing on years of field research, Ian Dowbiggin argues that if the quest for emotional well-being has reached a crisis point in the twenty-first century, it is because mass society is enveloped by cultures of therapism and consumerism, which increasingly advocate bureaucratic and managerial approaches to health and welfare"--.
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      -- Sex, drugs and rock and roll.
      By Cormier, Zoe
       [2015], Adult, Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group Call No: 500 C811s    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Explores science at the edge, where scientists ask big, strange questions -- and sometimes experiment on themselves to find answers. It shines a light into the lesser-known corners of scientific research to gain insight into the nature of consciousness, happiness, and humanity. Why do certain patterns of sound send shivers down our spines and tickle ancient parts of our brains? How did a chemist's quest to create a drug to ease the pain of childbirth result in the creation of LSD? Zoe Cormier is a freelance journalist with a background in zoology. Originally from Toronto, she now lives in London"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-
       2011., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: 153.4 K12t    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fieldsincluding economics, medicine, and politicsbut until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book.In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilitiesand also the faults and biasesof fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacationeach of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
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      By Popkey, Miranda
       2020., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Pop   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt--written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage--and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy, wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.