10 must-read science books like Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (IPNB) by Stephen W. Porges

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Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (IPNB)

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The foundational role of safety in our lives. Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 201…

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1. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

By: Babette Rothschild

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiolo… read more

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  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
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"The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or oth…"

-Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

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2. The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

By: Bob Burg , John David Mann

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

A new edition with expanded content is available now, "The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Sto… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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5. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

By: Peter A. Levine , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more

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6. Great North Road

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more

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7. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory

By: Peter A. Levine

3.95

Format: None pages, ebook

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing appr… read more

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8. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

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  • health
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

9. Opium: A History

By: Martin Booth

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more

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10. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood

By: Edward M. Hallowell

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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13. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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15. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

By: Shahida Arabi

3.90

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Reclaim your power from narcissists, manipulators, and other toxic people. If you're a highly sensi… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
"It is possible to set boundaries provided that you prioritize your own self-care. To protect ourselves in their presence, we first have to understand the way they think and manipulate. This will give…"

-Shahida Arabi, The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

"Keep interactions as short as possible; you can be cordial, but do not engage. Narcissists are master provocateurs who will subject you to dizzying diversion tactics to make you feel off-center and o…"

-Shahida Arabi, The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators

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17. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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18. Anchored

By: Deb Dana

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

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20. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York … read more

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  • health
"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal…"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

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21. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

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  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
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22. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

By: Karen Pinchin

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Stalker

By: Sarah Alderson

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Newly-weds Liam and Laura are spending their honeymoon in paradise: just the two of them on a remot… read more

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24. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention

By: Daniel L. Everett

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di… read more

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  • psychology
  • science
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25. A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

By: Fay Bound Alberti

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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26. The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.29

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Austr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (IPNB)

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The foundational role of safety in our lives. Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 201… read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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28. Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair

By: Daniel P. Brown

4.55

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2018 International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Pierre Ja… read more

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  • psychology
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29. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.94

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more

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30. Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good

By: Aminata Conteh-Biger

4.28

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Que… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Trauma Recovery: A Mind-Body Approach to Becoming Whole

By: Arielle Schwartz

4.42

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From a leading voice in the field, an in-depth audio guide to healing PTSD in the physical, psychol… read more

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  • psychology
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21 must-read nonfiction books like Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (IPNB) by Stephen W. Porges

Transform Your Habits

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Babette Rothschild

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Bob Burg , John David Mann

3.33

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

4.40

Transform Your Habits

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Maté

4.49

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More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski

4.14

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