NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Author

Larson, Erik

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant
On November...

2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

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

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 192 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--

4) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. It has been on the list for 97 week(s).

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eAudiobook, eBook

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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth...

5) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Author

Grann, David

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 54 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

6) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 58 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

7) The light we carry: overcoming in uncertain times

Author

Obama, Michelle

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-05-19. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...