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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 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 326 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. --Publisher's description.

2) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 105 week(s).

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The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before. "Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used...

3) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

4) Braiding sweetgrass

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 249 week(s).

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author 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 the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...

5) Your brain on art: how the arts transform us

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Magsamen, Susan

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Have you ever gotten chills while listening to a particularly gorgeous piece of music? Or felt a sense of calm while gazing at a painting of a serene landscape? We have experiences like those every day, but rarely stop to consider what's happening internally to cause them. In Your Brain on Art, founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Susan Magsamen and Google designer Ivy Ross explain how, by understanding...

6) Educated: a memoir

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Westover, Tara

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 92 week(s).

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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....

7) Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history

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Gwynne, S. C

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. It has been on the list for 73 week(s).

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"In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one...

8) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 414 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,...

9) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. It has been on the list for 92 week(s).

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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

10) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption

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Stevenson, Bryan

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 314 week(s).

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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle...

11) Grit: the power of passion and perseverance

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Duckworth, Angela

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-02-02. It has been on the list for 152 week(s).

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"Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur genius grant recipient Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments. Drawing on her own story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her...