NVCL Picks: Social sciences. 3rd floor, row 27Like this list

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• Advanced Parenting

  Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges

  Fradin, Kelly, MD,

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  This important, empathetic guidebook offers practical steps for managing children’s health.

• Grow Up

  Becoming the Parent Your Kids Deserve

  Bishop, Gary John,

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  This book will equip you to think about how you show up in the world to nurture your children in the present.

• Canada

  Beyond Grudges, Grievances, and Disunity

  Savoie, Donald J., 1947-

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  Savoie offers a compelling and insightful exploration of the nation's complexities.

• The Compassionate Imagination

  How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy

  Wyman, Max, 1939-

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  A radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in contemporary democracy.

• Cheated

  the Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land

  Waiser, Bill, 1953-

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  Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal players

• A Myriad of Tongues

  How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

  Everett, Caleb,

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  Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way.

• Misbelief

  What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things /

  Ariely, Dan,

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  Author Dan Ariely shares 5 key insights from his new book, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things.

• Decisions About Decisions

  Practical Reason in Ordinary Life /

  Sunstein, Cass R.,

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  Decisions about Decisions explores how people do, and should, make decisions about decisions. It aims to see what such decisions are, to explore how they go right, and see where they go wrong.

• Determined

  a Science of Life Without Free Will

  Sapolsky, Robert M.,

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  Sapolsky argues that free will, in the sense of freedom from causation, does not exist, and so blame and retributive punishment are unjustifiable.

• Arguing for a Better World

  How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice

  Shahvisi, Arianne,

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  It shows us how to work through thorny moral questions by examining their parts in broad daylight, equipping us to not only identify our own positions but to defend them as well.

• An Emergency in Ottawa

  the Story of the Convoy Commission

  Wells, Paul A. (Paul Allen),

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  How does a society make crucial decisions when everyone is exhausted, nothing works, and the noise from the truck horns and the shouting is deafening? And how do the protagonists regroup to make their case in the sterile, weird environment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond Greenways

  the Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes

  Searns, Robert M.,

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  Robert Searns, a trails and greenways planner, offers a fresh take on how to make cities more walkable.

• Extremely Online

  the Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

  Lorenz, Taylor,

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  Author reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy.

• How to Think Like a Philosopher

  Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking

  Baggini, Julian,

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  Baggini offers twelve key principles for a more humane, balanced, and rational approach to thinking.

• Humanly Possible

  Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

  Bakewell, Sarah, 1963-

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  The book explores the lives of existentialist thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and their views on living a meaningful life in an absurd world.