NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Upper Skagit Library District

1) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 228 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

2) All about love: new visions

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Hooks, Bell

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Bell Hooks Love Trilogy

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 65 week(s).

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Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies.

3) Braiding Sweetgrass

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 151 week(s).

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...

4) Caste: the origins of our discontents

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Wilkerson, Isabel

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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...

5) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 352 week(s).

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In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He 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. He exposes the extraordinary capabilities,...

6) Stolen focus: why you can't pay attention--and how to think deeply again

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Hari, Johann

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening -- and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of...

7) The nineties: a book

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Klosterman, Chuck

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"-- At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale shift in how society...

8) Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

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Cain, Susan

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 179 week(s).

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This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over...

9) Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...

10) South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

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Perry, Imani

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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--

11) Grit: the power of passion and perseverance

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Duckworth, Angela

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 138 week(s).

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"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...

12) The Bomber Mafia: a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...

13) How to be an antiracist

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Kendi, Ibram X

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-03-19. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...