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  • How We Eat

    Rappoport treats the dinner table like a Freudian couch, asking us to lie back and spill our guts. Tracing our culinary customs from the Stone Age to the stovetop range, he illuminates our complex and often contradictory eating habits, and suggests that perhaps we are what we eat. ... Read more

    $9.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

    An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised).While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Art of Choosing

    The nationally recognized, leading authority on choice exposes the surprising truths behind the decisions we make everyday.Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go?Whether mundane or life-altering, the choices we make define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Engaging, evocative. . . . [Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling.”—NPRWhy is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Finding Flow

    The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

    **From the bestselling author of Flow and one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life“A brilliant synthesis...shows how all of us can enhance our work, our play, our lives.” ―Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind**What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Work fills our days with anxiety and pressure, so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of Your Body

    Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

    Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body.Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Virtues of the Table

    How to Eat and Think

    How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can ... Read more

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  • The Taste of Sweet

    Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats

    by Joanne Chen ...
    Dismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved by all, the taste of sweet has long been at the center of both controversy and celebration. For anyone who has ever felt conflicted about a cupcake, this is a book to sink your teeth into. In The Taste of Sweet, unabashed dessert lover Joanne Chen takes us on an unexpected adventure into the nature of a taste you ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How To Become Smarter: 21 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power in the Next 30 Days

    Although many people believe that "smarts" are something you're born with, the idea that genetics alone determine your intelligence is simply not true. The mind is an amazingly flexible tool that can be trained to literally accomplish anything you "put your mind to."There is evidence to support the theory of neuroplasticity (the plastic and pliable nature of the brain). The idea of brain ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming Body Trust

    A Path to Healing & Liberation

    A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, ... Read more

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  • Eating the Moment

    141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time

    by Pavel Somov ...
    Do you use food to comfort yourself when you're feeling depressed or stressed? Do you sometimes eat simply because you're bored? There are so many opportunities to snack and overeat mindlessly, it's no wonder that most diets fail. But mindless eating can lead to health problems, obesity, and a feeling that you've lost control.Eating the Moment offers 141 mindfulness activities to help you listen ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Investigating Culture

    An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

    by Carol Delaney ...
    In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students.Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional material and classroom feedbackAccessible to a ... Read more

    $45.75 USD