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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Grandin, Temple and Johnson, Catherine
An Exciting New Look Into Animals' Inner Lives As our concepts of intelligence and talent continue to evolve, we are forced to change our perceptions of what those who do not have what we would consider to be traditional intelligence are capable of. |
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Unhooked Generation: The Truth About Why We're Still Single
by Straus, Jillian
Looking for Love in a Commitment-Free Culture It is often hard for us to admit how much we are influenced by the culture that surrounds us. After all, we like to think that we alone are in control of the decisions we make. |
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Eating, Drinking, Overthinking: The Toxic Triangle of Food, Alcohol, and Depression – and How Women Can Break Free
by Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan
A Guide to Recognizing and Coping with Toxic Life Patterns Nolen-Hoeksema points out that there are as many variations of toxic thinking as there are women who suffer from it. |
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Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
by Heyn, Dalma
Look Out, Ladies As if finding the right guy wasn't complicated enough, there is a new (or maybe just unrecognized until now) type of man to avoid. |
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Making a Good Brain Great
by AMen, Daniel G., M.D.
Taking Care of Our Most Precious Resource It may be a cliché to say that the human brain is the most important yet least understood part of the human body, but this makes it no less true and no less important for us to continue to try to understand just how it works. |
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It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy
by Behrendt, Greg and Ruotola-Behrendt, Amiira
A Lighthearted Remedy for a Broken Heart It seems odd that while we know laughter can get us through the most trying times, most advice books, even the best-written ones, are decidedly short on humor. |
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Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Legato, Marianne J. MD, FACP
New Evidence in the Mystery of Sex Differences As Dr. Marianne Legato, founder of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbian University, reveals in this book, the physical and chemical basis for these differences are only recently coming to light because for many years, advanced medical research was done almost exclusively on men. |
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Unstoppable Women: Achieve Any Breakthrough Goal in 30 Days
by Kersey, Cynthia
It's All About Empowerment Kersey's approach is immensely practical. She doesn't just spout the familiar idea that whether we view the world from an optimistic or pessimistic viewpoint can affect what happens to us; she acknowledges that some people are simply “pessimists by nature,” and offers advice on how to break that habit. |
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The Breaking Po!nt: How Female Midlife Crisis is Transforming Today's Women
by Shellenbarger, Sue
The Guide Our Moms Never Gave Us Judging from the smattering of national and local news stories about female midlife crisis, as well as the mention in a recent cover article in Time magazine, Shellenbarger's book has certainly tapped into the cultural zeitgeist. |
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Perfectly Normal: Living and Loving with Low Libido
by Pertot, Sandra Ph.D.
We've Come a Long Way, Baby…But Have We Gone Too Far? Dr. Sandra Pertot writes with a sense of bemusement about the days when women were woefully ignorant about sex, and they were not supposed to enjoy it. However, she also notes that the pendulum may have swung too far in the other direction, and now it is the women who don't enjoy sex who are made to feel like the abnormal ones. |
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