Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
10 best books like Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (Michael G. Thompson): Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Love Anthony, It's Like This, Cat, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground, Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door, Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Soft Science
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as...
| Author | Lisa Genova |
| ISBN | 1439164681 |
From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and Left Neglected, comes a heartfelt novel about an accidental friendship that gives a grieving mother a priceless gift: the ability to understand the thoughts of her eight-year-old autistic son and make sense of his brief life.
Two...
| Author | Emily Cheney Neville |
| ISBN | 0064400735 |
The Newbery-winning classic novel about a young New Yorker who figures out the world on his own terms with the help of one prickly tomcat, for readers who enjoy such books as Al Capone Does My Shirts and Hoot.
Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything—and every time their...
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0886825016 |
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the...
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
| Author | Kevin Poulsen |
| ISBN | 0307588688 |
The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network.
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from...
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
| Author | Roy Wenzl |
| ISBN | 0061246506 |
For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the...
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
| Author | Rachel Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1250102952 |
Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems: The ones that ignore single...
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0553157248 |
I could say that I loved the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. I wanted to *be* Encyclopedia Brown. When you're the nerdy kid on your block, and you discover a character who is the smartest kid in school, kind of popular despite that fact, can not only stand up to...
| Author | Franny Choi |
| ISBN | 1938584996 |
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness―how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation....
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
| Author | Po Bronson |
| ISBN | 0446504122 |
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465016901 |
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0767903692 |
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
| Author | Geoffrey B. West |
| ISBN | 1594205582 |
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing,...
| Author | Penelope Farmer |
| ISBN | 0152824855 |
A strange boy arrives and befriends children from the village school one by one, he helps them to slip unnoticed from lessons and teaches them something far more exciting than anything that could be learnt in school.
Having loved the third book in this series, Charlotte Sometimes, I was keen...
It's Garry Shandling's Book
From Judd Apatow comes an intimate portrait of his mentor, the legendary stand-up comic and star of The Larry Sanders Show, with never-before-seen journal entries and photos, as well as new contributions by fellow comedians and writers.
Garry Shandling was a singular trailblazer in the...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
| Author | Lindsay C. Gibson |
| ISBN | 1626251703 |
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels...
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
| Author | Lisa Damour |
| ISBN | 0553393057 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter’s erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural....
| Author | Glen O. Gabbard |
| ISBN | 1585621854 |
This new edition of the classic psychodynamic psychiatry text, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, continues its tradition as the most readable, scholarly, and practical introduction to psychodynamic theory and practice available. Kept within arm's reach of all mental health professionals,...
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
| Author | Amy Morin |
| ISBN | 0062391542 |
Expanding on her viral post that has become an international phenomenon, a psychotherapist offers simple yet effective solutions for increasing mental strength and finding happiness and success in life.
As a licensed clinical social worker, college psychology instructor, and psychotherapist,...
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
| Author | Lenore Skenazy |
| ISBN | 0470471948 |
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot...
Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
| Author | Jeff Pearlman |
| ISBN | 0544454383 |
From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can’t-make-this-up story of the USFL
The United States Football League—known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL—was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause...
Best Autocorrect Fails: Text Messages That Didn't Mean to Send
Best Autocorrect Fails - Text messages that didn’t mean to send
AutoCorrect takes words that you have misspelled and corrects it. For years, millions of people have used this great program. Especially since it is imbedded in all the new phones. Of course, there is a way to disable autocorrect...
The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
| Author | Kristin Schell |
| ISBN | 0718095588 |
A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships.
Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, “Absolutely, but I don’t have time for that” or “I can’t create that”? What...
13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do: Raising Self-Assured Children and Training Their Brains for a Life of Happiness, Meaning, and Success
| Author | Amy Morin |
| ISBN | 0062565737 |
The author of the international bestseller 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do turns her focus to parents, teaching them how to raise mentally strong and resilient children.
Do today’s children lack the flexibility and mental strength they need to cope with life’s challenges...
The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
| Author | Rachel Simmons |
| ISBN | 1594202184 |
Bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons exposes the myth of the Good Girl, freeing girls from its impossible standards and encouraging them to embrace their real selves
In The Curse of the Good Girl, bestselling author Rachel Simmons argues that in lionizing the Good Girl we are...
Of the six suns, only Beta is left in the sky. Do you see it?”
The question was rather unnecessary. Beta was almost at zenith, its
ruddy light flooding the landscape to an unusual orange as the brilliant
rays of setting Gamma died. Beta was at aphelion. It was small; smaller than
Theremon...
| Author | Paul Lockhart |
| ISBN | 0674972236 |
Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is smaller...
Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe
| Author | Anna Frebel |
| ISBN | 0691165068 |
Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient artifacts on Earth. Here, Anna Frebel—who is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most primitive stars using the world’s largest telescopes—takes readers...
| Author | Ken Silverstein |
| ISBN | 1781681376 |
The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,...
