NYT - Audio Nonfiction | Cook Memorial Library

1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

2) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

3) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

4) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#8 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

5) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction." -- Provided by publisher.

6) Nuclear war: a scenario

Author

Jacobsen, Annie

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#10 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...

7) Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Author

Willink, Jocko

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#13 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-09-15.

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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission:

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