Prometheus Books
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Cold-Blooded Kindness Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer,: Or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear, and Other Reflections on Helping That Hurts
$32.95 Add to cartAre some people predisposed to kindness to the point of being destructive to themselves and others? In this searing exploration of deadly codependency, the author of the best-selling Evil Genes, takes… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Oakley, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 161614419X
- Language: English
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China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine
$25.00 Read moreMillions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don’t know it–and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for imp… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883817
- Language: English
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Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains
$18.00 Read moreFor over 25 years, Thomas G. West has been a leading advocate for the importance of visual thinking, visual technologies and the creative potential of individuals with dyslexia and other learning diff… [more below]
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883019
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cranes: Lessons Learned from 50 Years of the Endangered Species ACT
$29.95 Read moreIt’s been 50 years since the United States attempted a conservation revolution with the passing of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Now, fifty years later, the Fish and Wildlife Service finds itse
- Author: Gronewold, Nathanial
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633887626
- Language: English
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Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
$18.00 Add to cartAn evolutionary psychologist traces the roots of political divisions back to our primate ancestors and male-dominated social hierarchies. Through the lens of evolutionary science, this book offers a n… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Hector A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1633885143
- Language: English
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – And Why We Believe Their Confessions
$29.95 Add to cartWhy do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time–in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psycholo
- Author: Kassin, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633888088
- Language: English
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
$18.00 Read moreThis illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today’s impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar… [more below]
- Author: Charles, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 163388564X
- Language: English
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Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
$28.99 Add to cartFirst developed in 1955, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the original form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and one of the most successful psychotherapeutic techniques in the world. Its found… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928798
- Language: English
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All Out!: An Autobiography
$30.99 Add to cartThis candid autobiography, the last work by renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, is a tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-n… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591024528
- Language: English
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Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
$28.95 Read moreA revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.C… [more below]
- Author: Neiwert, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1633886263
- Language: English
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
$27.95 Read moreIf we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthrough
- Author: Stein, James D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888487
- Language: English
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Cruel Creeds, Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History
$28.00 Add to cartThis illuminating, in-depth studypresents a wealth of case material, demonstrating the many manifestations of religious violence-not just war and terrorism, which are the focus of so many discussions … [more below]
- Author: Eller, Jack David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 451
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616142189
- Language: English
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The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health
$24.95 Read moreWhy do we say we have zero tolerance for bullying, but adult society is rife with it and it is an epidemic among children?
Because the injuries that all forms of bullying and abuse do to brains are in
- Author: Fraser, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887782
- Language: English
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Solving the Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions on and Off the Set of America’s Celebrated Game Show
$29.95 Read moreThe Price is Right is television’s longest-running game show. Since its inception in 1956, contestants have won cars, tropical vacations, diamond jewelry, even a live horse, and the hosts’ excited cat
- Author: Bergner, Justin L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888517
- Language: English
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Quantum Physics for Poets
$34.95 Add to cartQuantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an impenetrable… [more below]
- Author: Lederman, Leon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616142332
- Language: English
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend
$18.99 Add to cartHave you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, “How could someone be so twisted? So evil?” Prompted by clues in her sister’s diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the … [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Oakley, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 21 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026652
- Language: English
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Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity
$28.95 Read moreHow much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were bo
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888975
- Language: English
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
$27.95 Read moreHalley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888568
- Language: English
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
$34.95 Add to cartHow will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would … [more below]
- Author: Veronese, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1616149728
- Language: English
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King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge
$36.95 Add to cartIn Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one youn
- Author: Williams, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633887863
- Language: English
