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Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being Book Cover
20 copies
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Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being

Manoush Zomorodi

  • Apr 24 - May 9
  • 114 entries
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From the award-winning journalist and TED Radio Hour host comes a timely investigation into how screens and sitting are reshaping our bodies—and how a simple shift can change everything.

In today’s world, a normal day means sitting in front of a screen for eight to ten hours. Meeting after meeting. Email after email. We leave our desks drained, overstimulated and unfocused, only to go home, sit down again, and scroll some more. The result? Headaches, back pain, restless sleep, and rising rates of preventable disease. We know technology is breaking us down—so why can’t we break away?

It’s a question that Manoush Zomorodi has always wanted to answer. As the host of the TED Radio Hour, she has interviewed experts, conducted citizen experiments, and sought out research about how our digital lives are changing the way we think, learn, and feel. Now, in Body Electric, she presents an eye-opening investigation into the impact technology and sedentary living has had on our bodies and brains, from breath and eyesight to blood pressure, posture, and productivity, and shares what science (and tens of thousands of participants in a groundbreaking study with Columbia University Medical Center) have taught her—it’s the small shifts, not the digital detoxes, that will make us healthier.

Filled with perspective-shifting data and real-life applications and tools, Body Electric is the next must-listen for fans of Four Thousand Weeks and The Anxious Generation, and anyone feeling trapped by their technology.
  • Self help
  • Science
A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection Book Cover
15 copies
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A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection

Nicholas Epley

  • Apr 18 - May 19
  • 1,904 entries
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A life-changing message for our lonely age about why we often avoid what makes us happiest—connecting with other people—and how we can build wiser social habits through small and simple acts, from leading behavioral scientist and author of Mindwise.


“Dare to Connect explores the power and promise of the human connections that most of us never make—but could make so easily if we just opened our eyes. This is the eye-opener. Insightful, engaging, scientifically grounded and beautifully written, Dare to Connect is one of those rare books that might actually change your life.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

There is a fundamental paradox at the core of human life. We are a highly social species uniquely equipped to connect with other people—and doing so makes us happier and healthier. And yet, we so often choose to be unsocial. We avoid talking to the stranger who sits next to us. We can’t seem to get beyond small talk with an acquaintance. We feel grateful to those we love but are reluctant to express our gratitude. We are constantly presented with opportunities to make a connection—with our fellow commuters, our baristas, our colleagues, our families—yet we don’t take them. Even in a time when loneliness and isolation have reached epidemic proportions, we forfeit these little moments, not realizing how they can add up to a happier, healthier you.

In Dare to Connect, renowned University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley breaks down that split-second decision we face countless times a do we choose to reach out and connect with someone or hold back and avoid them? The science is resoundingly
Our happiness, health, and self-esteem are boosted by social behavior—whether we are introverts or extroverts.Our pessimism about reaching out creates a self-fulfilling the less we try, the more likely we are to think we’ll fail.Our social interactions are almost always better than we expect them to be.Social media and texting do not foster strong connections in the way meeting face-to-face or talking on the phone do.While there are many books promising one big fix, lots of small moments of sociality are more likely to improve your life than anything else.
Drawing on decades of research, his own life, and stories of people who have transformed their thinking and their social lives, Epley reveals the psychological mechanisms behind our hesitancy to reach out and empowers readers to put science into practice and build wiser social habits. Dare to Connect shows us that changing our thinking about how we approach others can change our lives.
  • Science
  • Non-fiction
Sense and Synesthesia Book Cover
100 copies
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Sense and Synesthesia

E T Rook

  • Apr 13 - May 14
  • 358 entries
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Imagine if you had overlapping sensations which meant you heard a word and saw a color, or associated color with days of the week or letters or numbers? How much richer would your life be?

One in four people experience just this, synesthesia, but most are unaware that it’s unusual as it does not impair them in any way. In fact, many find it a positive trait that enables them to be more creative in art, music, literature, and memorize information or names and places.

Author and synesthete Elizabeth Thomas Rook is keen to draw attention to the wonderful and interesting world of synesthesia that has remained a little off-radar until recently.
  • Science
  • Self help
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