NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

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

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book 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) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 97 week(s).

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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

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 210 week(s).

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

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Larson, Erik

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 8. 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...

5) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 73 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,...

6) Braiding sweetgrass

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 100 week(s).

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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...

7) Nuclear war: a scenario

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Jacobsen, Annie

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 13 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...

8) Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

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Harmon, Mark

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-09-22. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.