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Smart but Scattered

Peg Dawson EdD and Richard Guare PhD

Having trouble with a "smart but scattered" 4- to 13-year-old? Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there's a lot you can do to help.

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13m 43s

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

Life After Warming: In this #1 New York Times best-seller, a journalist documents the impending doom of Earth — as well as radical solutions for avoiding that doom.

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10m 39s

Joyful

Ingrid Fetell Lee

Designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee presents groundbreaking research to explain how making small changes to your surroundings can create extraordinary happiness in your life.

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11m 35s

Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.

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10m 25s

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone)

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11m 45s

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement.

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13m 13s

Who Owns the Future?

Jaron Lanier

The “brilliant” and “daringly original” (The New York Times) critique of digital networks from the “David Foster Wallace of tech” (London Evening Standard)—asserting that to fix our economy, we must fix our information economy.

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11m 12s 31s

Gluten Is My Bitch

April Peveteaux

Gluten Is My Bitch is a brutally honest, entertaining look at what living a gluten-free life entails. As an antidote to the tragic news that, no, you will never eat regular donuts again

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11m 31s

The Art Of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

After dominating the chess world for a decade, Josh Waitzkin turned to Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately became a World Champion. How did he conquer two disciplines that seem so different? He explains: 'I've come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess. What I am best at is the art of learning.'

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12m 19s

Privacy and Freedom

Alan Westin

In defining privacy as “the claim of individuals…to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated,” Alan Westin’s 1967 classic *Privacy and Freedom* laid the philosophical groundwork for the current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law.

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