Because I Said So: Why society is childist and how breaking the cycle of discrimination towards children can change the world
By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish , Kimberly Ann Coe
3.06
Format: 220 pages,
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your chi… read more
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2. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
By: Ben Goldacre
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. I… read more
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3. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
4. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
By: Becky Kennedy
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more
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5. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
By: Daniel J. Siegel
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more
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6. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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7. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
9. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
10. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- parenting
- education
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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12. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]
By: Philippa Perry
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is about how we have relationships with our children, what gets in the way of a good conn… read more
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13. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
By: Paloma Faith
4.06
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more
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14. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
By: Katherine Angel
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more
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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
15. Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the press… read more
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"[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats."-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"It's always been implied that if you fail to succeed, you aren't passionate enough. But I no longer invest in work emotionally. It isn't worth it. I learned that every single person is expendable. No…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsi…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longt…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
16. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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17. The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
By: Philippa Perry
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, p… read more
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"Manche Menschen verwechseln Liebe mit etwas, das einen überkommt, dabei ist sie viel mehr. Liebe äußert sich in dem, was wir tun. Liebe ist nicht passiv."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Wir alle sind verletzliche Wesen, die lernen müssen, dass man stärker ist, wenn man zu seiner Verletzlichkeit steht, als wenn sich hinter einer Fassade falscher Stärke versteckt."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Manchmal bedeutet authentisch zu sein, dass wir nicht so nett sind, wie wir gern wären. Wenn Ihnen das ein schlechtes Gewissen bereitet, denken Sie daran: Ein schlechtes Gewissen ist besser als Groll."-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
"Be mindful of the language you use with others. A good way to start is to speak in 'I' statements, which define your own experience, and not 'you' statements, which are a judgement on the other person"-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
18. The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting
By: Greer Kirshenbaum
4.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which … read more
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19. Because I Said So: Why society is childist and how breaking the cycle of discrimination towards children can change the world
By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'A vital read, not just for parents but anyone who values the next generation' Psychologies'A provo… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
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20. The Health Fix: Transform Your Health in 8 Weeks
By: Ayan Panja
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lifestyle medicine expert reveals his secrets for future-proofing your health and preventing illn… read more
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21. Why Mummy Drinks on Holiday
By: Gill Sims
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited sixth Why Mummy novel.When famil… read more
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