Healthy Lives: The Book Club

Store Manager Earle Peterson teams up with local psychologist, Pamela Rudd, to co-host Healthy Lives: The Book Club, designed to explore the pleasures and pressures of our modern lives. Beginning June 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM, the book club will meet at Books Inc. in Burlingame the last Thursday of each month.

The Sociopath Next Door (Paperback)

By Martha Phd Stout

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780767915823
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Broadway, 03/01/2006

October 2010 Selection: Not just confined to criminals, sociopath behavior affects one in 25 people, in which that person possesses no conscience. Harvard psychologist Stout explains how to recognize and deal with sociopaths who do not possess the ability to feel shame, guilt, or remorse.

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Shop Class as Soulcraft (Paperback)

By Matthew B. Crawford

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780143117469
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 04/01/2010

September 2010 Selection: In this wise and often funny book, a philosopher/mechanic systematically destroys the pretensions of the high-prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one's hands.

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Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices (Paperback)

By Thich Nhat Hanh, Nhat Hanh

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9781888375916
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Published: Parallax Press, 07/01/2009

August 2010 Selection: Encouraging readers to be intelligent and skillful in their practice, this new collection by Thich Nhat Hanh outlines the essential steps by which anyone can all obtain real and lasting happiness.

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The Female Brain (Paperback)

By Louann Md Brizendine

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780767920100
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Published: Broadway, 08/01/2007

July 2010 Selection: Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat womens' brain functions. This revolutionary book combines two decades of her work and the latest information from the scientific community to provide a truly comprehensive look at the way women's minds work

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How We Decide (Hardcover)

By Jonah Lehrer

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780618620111
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 02/01/2009

June 2010 Selection: From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist comes a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making. Lehrer explores two questions: How does the human mind make decisions? How can those decisions be made better?

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