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  • Adaptation to Life

    Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Wisdom of the Ego

    One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality, managing the unmanageable, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Spiritual Evolution

    A Scientific Defense of Faith

    In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great.But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great. In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Aging Well

    Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Study of Adult Development

    "An outstanding contribution to the study of aging" from a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School ( Publishers Weekly).In an unprecedented series of studies, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects—men and women, some rich, some poor—from their teens to old age. Harvard's George Vaillant now uses these studies—the most complete ever done anywhere in the world—and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Among the surprising findings: people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Portals

    Two Lives Intertwined by Adoption

    Portals tells intertwining true life stories of adopting and being adopted as an older child. Spanning forty years of development the saga is told both from the perspective of Lillian, adopted at age nine, and of her adoptive father, each of them writing alternating chapters. Lillian frankly relates the harrowing abuse and neglect of her early childhood as well as her turbulent post-adoption ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling than before.Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over two hundred ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Aging Well

    Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Study of Adult Development

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    In an unprecedented series of studies, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects -- men and women, some rich, some poor -- from their teens to old age. Harvard's George Vaillant now uses these studies -- the most complete ever done anywhere in the world -- and the subjects' individual histories to illustrate the factors involved in reaching a happy, healthy old age.He explains precisely why ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    America in the Age of Descent

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    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

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    In Time to Start Thinking, Edward Luce offers an incisive and highly engaging account of America’s economic and geopolitical decline. The Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times for the last four years, Luce has traveled the country interviewing public officials like Lawrence Summers and Senator Don Riegle, business leaders including Jeff Immelt and Bill Gates, as well as teachers, health ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sourdough

    Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More

    by Sarah Owens ...
    A James Beard Award Winner for Baking & Desserts101 recipes for baking with whole and sprouted grains, making the most of the seasonal harvest, and healing the body through naturally fermented foodSarah Owens spent years baking conventional baked goods, only to slowly realize she had developed a crippling inability to digest or tolerate their ingredients. Unable to enjoy many of her most favorite ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    In Defense of Elitism

    Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

    by Joel Stein ...
    Narrated by Joel Stein ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    **From a Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist comes an insightful look at America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite."I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel**The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein instantly knew why. The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The World Beyond Your Head

    On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces ... Read more

    $26.99 USD