NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Cook Memorial Library

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

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 24 week(s).

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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) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

Author

Larson, Erik

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...

3) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 76 week(s).

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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,...

4) The comfort of crows: a backyard year

Author

Renkl, Margaret

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy...

5) Nuclear war: a scenario

Author

Jacobsen, Annie

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 15 week(s).

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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...