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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 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 325 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) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 9 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" --

3) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).

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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...

4) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 104 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

5) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 248 week(s).

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"As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...

6) 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 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 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...

7) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Noah, Trevor

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. It has been on the list for 231 week(s).

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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed"--Amazon.com.

8) A full life: reflections at ninety

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Carter, Jimmy

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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The thirty-ninth president and Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.

9) Dopamine nation: finding balance in the age of indulgence

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Lembke, Anna

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"Psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain - and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and...

10) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 413 week(s).

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*Major New York Times Bestseller
*More than 2.6 million copies sold
*One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year
*Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year
*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
*Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed

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11) Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know

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Grant, Adam M

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. It has been on the list for 37 week(s).

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"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...

12) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption

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Stevenson, Bryan

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. It has been on the list for 313 week(s).

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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.

13) Educated: a memoir

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Westover, Tara

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. It has been on the list for 91 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. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

14) The art thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession

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Finkel, Michael

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-26. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Staephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...