NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | David City Hruska Library

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

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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

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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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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale...

3) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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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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Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health.

4) Nuclear war: a scenario

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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...